TRANSGRESSIONS 
Six evenings, six plays-in-process: staged readings of new works.
May 2-6, 2018 | 7pm
HB Playwrights Theatre
124 Bank Street, NYC
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A conversation with 
Barbara Cassidy and Shonna Trinch
Monday, March 26, 7:30PM
HB Playwrights Theater | 124 Bank Street
Suggested donation: $5-$10
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“Seeing Rape” is a course at John Jay College of Criminal Justice taught by Shonna Trinch (a linguist) and Barbara Cassidy (a playwright) examining sexual violence across various disciplines. The students’ final projects are original short plays, from which Trinch and Cassidy choose 5-10 to be performed in the spring by professional actors.
Join Shonna and Barbara for a conversation about the work they do to foster an awareness of the power of creative visions both to analyze and re-imagine the world.
Moderated talk will be followed by a Q&A.
Alicia Rodis, Co-Founder of Intimacy Directors International
For years Intimacy Directors have been choreographing intimate moments & advocating for consensual workspaces in the rehearsal room. In this shifting culture, Intimacy Direction is now becoming a new standard practice. Chat with Alicia Rodis, co-founder of Intimacy Directors International, whose company is at the forefront of this shift. From intimate tension to a tender embrace to full on simulated sex, a conversation of how to tell these stories safely and dynamically.
An evening of songs from the musical theater works of Leonard Bernstein during the worldwide #Bernsteinat100 celebration
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Leonard Bernstein – composer, conductor, educator, musician, cultural ambassador, and humanitarian – is one of the most iconic artists of the 20th century. Bernstein’s steadfast belief in the power of art to lift, transform, delight and educate was his antidote to a world full of violence and unpredictability. A charter member of HB’s Playwrights Foundation and a longtime friend to HB’s founders, HB Studio is thrilled to present this benefit evening with Broadway stars in a tribute to his work, during the worldwide #Bernsteinat100 celebration.
Featuring remarks by ALEXANDER BERNSTEIN, LONNY PRICE and the talents of Broadway stars STEPHEN DEROSA (BWAY: On the Town, Betrayal, The Nance, Hairspray, Into the Woods), STEVEN ENG (OFF BWAY: Pacific Overtures, Chee-Chee; WEST END: The King and I), MELISSA ERRICO (BWAY: Anna Karenina, My Fair Lady, High Society, Dracula, White Christmas, Amour), ALI EWOLDT (BWAY: Phantom of the Opera, The King and I, Les Misérables), CHILINA KENNEDY (BWAY: Beautiful, Jesus Christ Superstar), TRACEY MICHAILIDIS (BWAY: Beauty and the Beast; OFF-BWAY: Ethel Sings; NAT’L TOUR: Fun Home), CARL-MICHAEL OGLE (Regional: Showboat (Citi Performing Arts Center), The Wiz (Fiddlehead Theatre Company), West Side Story(FTC), ELIZA SIMPSON (Off-Broadway: The Woodsman (59E59 Theaters), NY: The Mysteries (The Flea Theater), Kapowi Gogo (The PIT, Time Out NY Critics Pick), Three Sisters (HIT)), CHRISTINE TOY JOHNSON (BWAY: The Music Man (Revival), Grease! (Revival), Chu Chem), and TONY YAZBECK (BWAY: Prince of Broadway, Finding Neverland, On the Town, Chicago, White Christmas, Gypsy, A Chorus Line), with musical directors MICHAEL DANSICKER (BWAY: The Times They Are A-Changin’, Piaf, Good, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Iceman Cometh, Singin’ in the Rain) and Grammy Award-winning JOHN MCDANIEL (BWAY: Bonnie and Clyde, Catch Me If You Can, Brooklyn, Annie Get Your Gun ,Taboo, Chicago, Grease, Patti LuPone on Broadway, Company). Directed by ROBERT MCQUEEN, esteemed HB faculty and Director of New Musical Development for Toronto’s Musical Stage Company. McQueen’s many directing credits include Man of La Mancha (Startford Festival), Forest Boy (NYMF), The Wild Party, Falsettos, Caroline, Or Change, The Light in the Piazza, The Magic Flute (Vancouver Opera), Hair and Pal Joey.
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By Julie McKee 
Directed by Jean Randich
A Staged Reading
Saturday & Sunday, January 27 & 28 | 7 pm
First Floor Studio | 120 Bank Street, New York
Free | RSVP at eventbrite.com
1942. New Zealand is under threat of a Japanese invasion. Louise MacGregor, formidable scientist, is sent in search of Pterocladia Lucida, a simple seaweed to aid the war effort. May Smith, an untried youngster, is plucked to assist the prickly botanist as a sketch artist. But having only recently discovered her Maori heritage, May has other questions and struggles to meet Louise’s rigorous demands. Inspired by Lucy B. Moore’s wartime mission to scour the wilds of New Zealand’s coast for the weed, “The Secret Life of Seaweed” tells the story of two women who learn to feel deeply about each other in a time when expressing feelings of unbearable emotional sadness was forbidden for the good of all.
Featuring James Hallett*, Siw Laurent, Johanna Leister*, Donna Svennevik, with stage directions by Andrew Plimpton.
The Secret Life of Seaweed is a commission by The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation of Science and Technology and The Ensemble Studio Theatre.
*Appearing courtesy of Actors Equity/Aftra.
*Photo credit Donna Svennevik
Please join us Sunday, January 14, at 3pm in the HB Playwrights Theatre for a Memorial for Earle Hyman. Space is limited, please RSVP by January 9 to Sara Kuntz, via email (skuntz@hbstudio.org) or phone (212-989-6540).
Meet the Catalan Artists 
Copresented by HB Studio and Institut Ramon Llull
Featuring five socially engaged female artists from Catalonia who will be sharing presentations of their work:
Lali Álvarez (playwright, poet, stage director)
Cláudia Cedó (playwright & director)
Anna Giribet (theater artist & programmer)
Ariadna Peya (choreographer, dancer, teacher)
Xesca Salvà (set designer & theater artist)
Presentations will be followed by a Q&A with the audience.
Tuesday, January 16, 2018 | 7pm
HB Playwrights Theatre | 124 Bank Street
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LALI ÁLVAREZ: I work as a playwright, poet, stage director and community-projects developer, having studied philosophy at Universitat de Barcelona and stage directing and playwriting at Institut del Teatre. I often participate in text theatre, street theatre, and in community projects, with my work revolving around social and political issues. I am the current artistic director at the HUI BASA Collective, through which I hold the resident artist position at Nau Ivanow in Barcelona. The collective is now working on Tha Zpar (The Stand Still) a street-theatre show about how we manage fear and violence, which will premiere in September 2018 at FiraTàrrega, and on Privilege, a theatre documentary about the concept of privilege, to premiere in July 2019 at the Barcelona Grec Festival. As a playwright and stage director, I have put on Ragazzo (2015) and Barcelona (against the wall) (2016), both based on true stories, and both on tour. I have been honored with various awards such as the Serra d’Or Critics Award (best show 2015 for Ragazzo) and the Recomana Critics Award (best show for young audience 2016 for Ragazzo).
www.lalialvarezgarriga.com
By Jośe Rivera.
Directed by David Deblinger.
Two Nights Only:
Friday, Dec. 1, and Saturday, Dec. 2, 2017 | 7PM
HB Playwrights Theatre | 124 Bank Street
$250 Premiere Tickets
$125 Priority Tickets
$25 HB Student Tickets
Join HB for a staged reading of Jose Rivera’s fanciful play, following the adventures of Maricela and her brother Riccardo as they save the world from weather catastrophe. Directed by David Deblinger, HB faculty member and co-founder of the Labyrinth Theater Company.
Featuring Vanessa Aspillaga – star of the Pulitzer-prize winning drama ANNA IN THE TROPICS on Broadway.
Also featuring the talents of Oscar A. L. Cabrera, Paula Pizzi, Johnny Sanchez, Ron Orbach, Glenda Delli, Beethovan Oden, and Satoshi Deleanu.
Don’t miss this exciting and fun, whirl-wind adventure! A portion of proceeds from this reading will be donated towards The Hispanic Federation’s UNIDOS Disaster Relief & Recovery Program to meet Hurricane Maria-related needs and recovery in Puerto Rico.
Book & Lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner
Composer: Frederick Loewe
7PM | Fri, Sat & Sun | Nov 10, 11 & 12, 2017
HB Playwrights Theatre, 124 Bank St. | FREE
Directed by Robert McQueen
This autumn HB Studio presents a celebration of the work of musical theater writers Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe. Not Far From Where We Were Before features a company of actors from the HB Musical Theater Studio Practice program. The evening includes scenes and songs from Lerner and Loewe’s most iconic musicals, such as My Fair Lady and Camelot, as well as earlier, lesser known work. Join us for an evening that honors two of the most important, beloved and celebrated voices in the American musical theater canon.
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Burak Tatar‘s short film, Prime Real Estate won Best New York State Filmmaker and Audience Choice Award at the Blackbird Film Festival.
Franco Pistritto is performing in A.R. Gurney’s The Dining Room at Southampton Arts Center on April 26–28.
Albert Insignia is performing in Heisenberg at TheatreLab along side Irene Glezos. Performances run April 16–18.
Connie Kirk is performing in Heaven And Hollywood by Thomas L. Mason. at Lakewood Center for the Performing Arts. Based on a true story set in 1944, a young sergeant from Portland, OR tasked by the FBI to flesh out Hollywood communists. A spirited Katharine Hepburn fights back. Act II, as a stand alone work known as “An Interview with Hepburn” is a William Faulkner Literary Award recipient. One night performance on April 19 at 7:00pm.
Youlim Nam’s new play The Subway Play will have a reading with Axial Theatre at St John’s Episcopal Church on May 4 at 4:00pm. Featuring Dan Walworth, Tom Ryan, Pat McGuinness, Quinn Warren, Sergio Argüelles Catare, and Jessica Bonds.
Theatre for the New City presents Texas Gothic by Randy McHaney and directed by Paul Dederick. Performances run April 18–28, 2024 and features HB friends: Donna Svennevik, Amy Finkbeiner, Michael Lopetrone. Also involved in this production from HB are Lluvia Almanza, Stefan Diethelm, Moshe Henderson, and Allie Posner.
Ryan Czerwonko is performing in Sea Gull presented by Adult Film+Theatre. Performances run May 8–26 at Rutgers Presbyterian Church.
Leonard J. Altamura, Esquire, an attorney and philanthropist whose advocacy touched lives all over the world, died Tuesday, March 19 in New York City. He was 85.
Andrew Heinze‘s one-act play AT LEAST SLIGHTLY will be published in THE BEST TEN-MINUTE PLAYS, 2024 (Smith & Kraus), and will be produced in the “A Light in Dark Places” Theatre Festival in Dallas TX, Apr 5-13. An excerpt from Andrew’s full-length play THE RIMSKY-FOGELMAN will be published in THE BEST MEN’S STAGE MONOLOGUES, 2024 (Smith & Kraus).
Donna McKechnie is playing Madame Morrible in Broadway’s WICKED.
Erich Rausch is in rehearsals developing a new piece with KrymovLabNYC. Erich was Willie Loman un a Solo Performance piece for the fashion show, DEATH OF A SALESMAN. Recently, Erich finished for the indie feature BAGGAGE as Gedeon, a Russian mob capo and completed work on the short film PENDULUM, playing a professor “with a past”. Erich recently, celebrated 5 years of weekly piano and voice concerts with CONCERTS IN MOTION, with free online & in-person concerts esp. for those who cannot get out easily.
Ginger Grace appears as Eleanor Roosevelt for the Jewish Theatre Circle’s CELEBRATING JEWISH WOMEN IN HISTORY AND MORE at the 14th Street Y on March 19.
Quinn M. Johnson understudies for Public Theater’s JORDANS. Performance runs Apr 11–May 5.
Burak Tatar is the newest Co-Chair of Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU)’s Young Professionals and Artists Circle (YPAC). Established in 1992 by Bob Ost, TRU is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting producers in their productions, fostering the growth of emerging theater companies, and providing valuable insights for all theater professionals to navigate the business successfully. As part of TRU’s commitment to community engagement, Burak will be one of the speakers at the organization’s upcoming Zoom gathering, titled “The Challenges of Young Professionals Trying to Kickstart a Career in Theater.” Scheduled for Friday, March 1st at 5pm, this event offers aspiring theater professionals an opportunity to gain valuable insights and guidance as they embark on their careers.
John L. Payne performs in AMERICAN ROT directed by Estelle Parsons. Performs at La MaMa and runs Mar 14–31.
JNK Enzo directs the reading of CADILLAC CREW at Miller Branch Library in Jersey City on Mar 30. This reading of Cadillac Crew is for the Community Awareness Series for their Women’s History Month event at Miller Branch Library.
Michael Leigh Cook performs in THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA at Signature Theatre’s Irene Diamond Stage, alongside Austin Pendleton, Tim Daly, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Lea DeLaria, directed by Emily Mann. Performances run thru Feb 25.
Burak Tatar directs GISELLE LOVES MAMBO by Edward J. Fee, as part of the Queens Short Play Festival at Secret Theatre—a friendly competition where the audience votes! When Giselle’s dance partner is unexpectedly injured the day before the regional dance competition, her boyfriend, Manuel, becomes the backup dancer, but his stage fright kicks in. Limited Performances run Feb 28–Mar 15.
Ginger Grace plays Emily Dickinson in her interactive performance piece, INSIDE EMILY DICKINSON: HER POETRY & HER LIFE! at the Cultural Arts Coalition, Brewster, NY March 2; and in “Change Makers! Women Activate!” Festival for the Queens, NY Library System); along with Libraries throughout Westchester and Connecticut for Women’s History Month.
John Druzba plays Ben Franklin in HOME OF THE BRAVE, as part of the Queens Short Play Festival at Secret Theatre—a friendly competition where the audience votes! PROGRAM G. Limited performances runs Feb 27–Mar 24.
Burak Tatar directs FRANKIE & FRANKIE, written by Fran Sisco, as part of the Queens Short Play Festival at Secret Theatre—a friendly competition where the audience votes! Two mischieves 10-year-old best friends who grapple differently with the aftermath of stealing from their church’s poor boxes, on Easter. Features Michael Donaldson and Jay Laghi. Limited Performances run Feb 23–Mar 16.
Thomas Vorsteg performs in GONE MISSING, a documentary musical created by The Civilians at Vivid Stages. Runs Feb 22–Mar 3.
Anthony O’Connell plays Darren in the short film, DEVILS THREESOME, written by Michal Kosciarz and Eric Maus, directed by Eric Maus.
Rachel Petitte plays Ruth Scott in the short film, THEY DON’T LEAVE.
Kevin Cheng performs in a multilingual adaptation of Chekhov’s THE CHERRY ORCHARD at Under St Marks with The Frigid. Runs Jan 20–27.
Kevin Cheng performs in IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE: A LIVE RADIO PLAY at Fiction Bar on Dec 16 at 7pm.
John L Payne performs in KING LEAR at Saint Clement’s Theater. Runs Jan 26–Feb 18, 2024.
Chris Jaymes is featured in Season 4 of FOR ALL MANKIND, streaming on Apple+, playing the role of Nick Jennings, an English astronaut working on a space station in Mar’s.
Ginger Grace perform in Faith Cailin’s THE CHANGE YOU WANTED at Jefferson Market Library, Nov 28 at 6pm.
Theatre Prometheus, Washington, D.C. hosts a free virtual reading of Robin Berl’s new work DUA: THE MONSTER’S STORY on Nov 18 at 8pm. This bold retelling of the Medusa story will include presentations by our design team so that audiences can more fully visualize Dua’s world and also get a sneak peek at our 2024 production.
Kkuumba Siegell performs in EARTH TO VENUS in the New York Theater Festival at Later Theater. Runs Nov 13–18.
Barak Tatar‘s stage play adapted to the screen PRIME REAL ESTATE is having its East Coast Premiere at the Bowery Film Festival in New York on Nov 8. Features Pat Clune and James Fordyce.
John Joseph Trujillo is playing Maurice in BEAUTY AND THE BEAST at John W. Engeman Theatre. Runs begins Nov 16.
Micaela Presa Patten stars as Regina George in MEAN GIRLS THE MUSICAL in Humboldt’s Theatre in Lima, Peru.
Nancy Redman play and performance in A SÉANCE WITH MOM, directed by Austin Pendleton is a 2023 United Solo Special Award Nominee.
Burak Tatar produced and directed, BUST, a multi-award winning short film by Burak Tatar, starring Bobby Soto (Flamin’ Hot, A Million Miles Away, Tax Collector), the film will be screened in East LA Civic Center on OCT 28TH as official selection.
Ginger Grace appears in Joan Ross Sorkin’s HAMLET IN BENSONHURST at the Scarsdale Public Library, Scarsdale, NY, performance is on Oct 30th.
Andrew G. Matthews performs in MANTRA at Catskill International Film Festival at The Paramount Theater in Middletown, New York.
Amber Ettinger performs in EVERYTHING UNDER THE SUN….an evening of short plays by Richard Thomas Henle and D.S. Burrows. 7 Short Plays in this special two hour event. Runs Oct 20–22 at The Producer’s Club.
Jeffrey Adam Baxt performs the role of Kafka in ALL IN THE TIMING at Skinner Studio at Plays & Players. Runs Nov 9–19.
Pat Dwyer stars in eVIL SUBLET, a horror comedy written & directed by Allan Piper & featuring Sally Struthers. The Film will play the New York City Horror Film Festival at the Look Dine-In Cinemas for one showing ONLY on Dec 10 @ 2pm.
Lluvia Almanza performs in a HERE, BETWEEN AND BEYOND – AN EVENING OF HAUNTING ONE ACTS by Orlando Rodriguez at Kraine Theatre. Runs Oct 21-23.
Burak Tatar has two short films screenings in New York:
UN-EQUAL, starring Ayse Eldek, is an official selection of International Film Festival of Manhattan will be screened at the new Dine-IN Look Cinema’s.
CONCIERGE SERVICE, a short film, for 48 Hour Film Project, premieres at the Quad Cinema on Oct 12, Group A Screening 5 to 7pm.
J.B. Alexander performs in THE BURIAL AT THEBES at All Saints Church in Sunnyside, Queens. Runs Oct 13-29.
Kathleen Files performs in PRIVATE LIVES at Lyndhurst Mansion in Tarrytown, NY. Runs Nov 10-26.
Erich Rausch, Music Theater Accompanist and student of Karen Leslie-Lyttle, is performing in the sold-out run of KrymovLabNYC’s BIG TRIP at La Mama. He also featured in the role of Bertrand in GOOD FAITH at the San Francisco Short Film Festival. He voiced the main interviewee in translation for the podcast, RUSSIAN RESISTANCE with Paper Support.
Charly Wenzel directs a reading of PIGEONHOLE at Dramatists Guild – Mary Rodgers Room. Featuring: Katie May Porter, Debra Zane, Leyla Hadi-K, and Mike Faccioli. Performs on Oct 15.
Ginger Grace appears in Joan Ross Sorkin’s HAMLET IN BENSONHURST at the Hastings-on-Hudson Public Library Oct 7.
Jesse Regis‘s book F*CK IT, I’M BUYING A CABIN, is a short and funny illustrated book for adults about a millennial who decides to ditch the city and head for the hills in search of a simpler, more satisfying life. The book is NOW AVAILABLE at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org, Books-a-Million, and wherever books are sold.
Charly Wenzel performs THE INCOMPLETE COLLECTION at Culture Lab LIC. Runs Sept 9-Nov 19.
Pat Dwyer stars in E. VIL SUBLET, a horror comedy written & directed by Allan Piper & featuring Sally Struthers. The Film will play the Haunted House Fest at The Midnight Theatre. One night only, Oct 6 at 7PM.
Andrew G. Matthews appears in twos films featured at Northeast Film Festival: LOVE LOCK and OATH OF INJUSTICE.
Xavier Reyes performs in CLYDES at Playmakers Repertory Theatre Company. Runs Sept 5-24.
Adele Batchelder performs in WATER, WATER EVERWHERE, a site-specific contemporary adaptation of the epic lyrical ballad, THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER, by Samuel Taylor Coleridgeat. Runs Aug 10-20 at WoodenBoat, Brooklin, Maine.
Thomas Vorsteg performs as Paco in MISS ABIGAIL’S GUIDE TO DATING, MATING AND MARRIAGE at The Theater Project in Maplewood, NJ. Runs Aug 17-27.
Nancy Redman performs her solo play “A SÉANCE WITH MOM”, directed by Austin Pendleton at Chain Studio Theatre. Runs Aug. 21 – Sept. 3, 2023.
Tatiana Korinfsky directs and her written adaptation of SHOSTAKOVICH IN NEW YORK at The ACC (Amateur Comedy Club) 150 E. 36 St, New York. Features Eric Kuzmuk, Jeannie Dalton, David Scharf. Runs Aug 17-19. Contact ezen@gol.com for more info and reservations.
Burak Tatar‘s short film, PRIME REAL ESTATE, starring Pat Clune and James Fordyce is an official selection of Pictures’s Up Film Festival, by the Jury President John Patrick Shanley. Film Festival, taking place August 25th-27th, 2023 at The Lee Strasberg Theater in Hollywood, CA.
Youlim Nam is an Artist In Residency with El Barrio’s Artspace PS 109, where she will performs in a reading of her own play NEW YEAR’S DAY (SAE HAE) on July 31.
Katherine O’Sullivan performs in Shakespeare in the Parking Lot’s THE COMEDY OF ERRORS at CSV Parking Lot (114 Norfolk Street).
Xavier Reyes performs in NEXT TO NORMAL at Greenbrier Valley Theatre. Runs July 21–30.
Jesse Regis‘s book F*CK IT, I’M BUYING A CABIN, is a short and funny illustrated book for adults about a millennial who decides to ditch the city and head for the hills in search of a simpler, more satisfying life. The book is now available for preorder via Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org, and Books-a-Million.
Darina Eid and Atila Carmona perform in LA TRAICIÓN EN LA AMISTAD at Repertorio Español. June 30–July 9
Karen Christie-Ward is featured in Season 3 of I THINK YOU SHOULD LEAVE on Netflix.
Maïza Dubhé performs in the reading of TEARS OF THE WATER at The Assembly Theatre.
Andrew Heinze‘s full-length comedy THE RIMSKY-FOGELMAN will have a public reading presented by the Road Theatre Company, Los Angeles, on July 7, 2023.
Jane Henzerling performs in RICHARD III at ISC at the New Mexico Actor’s Lab. Runs July 14–23.
Jennifer Stepanyk co-stars as Lena in MANIFEST, Season 4, Episode 19 on Netflix.
Moshe Henderson performs in ART & MONEY at Teatro LATEA (as part of the New York Theater Festival). Written by Barbara Bloemink and directed by Eduardo Machado. A passionate art museum director confronts the realities of the contemporary art world in this shocking, intimate, drama inspired by true events that questions the importance of art and museums. Features HB Community Members: Barbara Bloemink (Playwright), Eduardo Machado (Director), Fareeda Pyracha Ahmed, Ellis Charles Hoffmeister, Moshe Henderson, Sarah Jordan Hupper. Runs June 12–17.
Suzy Brack performs in Richard Lyons Conlon’s play IS, WAS, ISN’T with New York’s Greenhouse Ensemble.