Announcements

Stage Management Internship Opportunity

HB Playwrights Theatre seeks a Stage Management intern for the upcoming 10 Minute Play Festival: The Central Park Plays.

Production dates are as follows: Tech rehearsals 4/20 – 4/22. Performances 4/23 @ 8pm, 4/24 @ 8pm, 4/25 @ 2pm & 8pm, 4/26 @ 2pm. Strike follows final performance on 4/26. Intern would need to be available for all Tech rehearsals and performances.
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Info Session with SUNY Empire State College

SUNY March2015For students interested in applying their theatre training and experience for potential college credit towards an Associate’s or Bachelor’s degree, HB will host an information session with SUNY Empire State College.

CANCELLED
Please stay tuned for more information down the line!

Wednesday, March 4 | 1pm – 2:30pm
Speech Room, 3rd Floor | 120 Bank Street

Join Christopher Rolley, Senior Recruitment and Outreach Coordinator, to learn how SUNY’s Prior Learning Assessment process works to help students apply prior training and experience toward a college degree.

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Spring Registration, Early Bird Discount, & Auditions!

Spring Term registration is now open. Spring Term will run 10 weeks, March 23 – June 7 (with no classes during Spring Clean Up, April 28 – May 3, and no classes on Memorial Day, May 25).

Early Bird Discount! Get 10% off Spring registration by using code SPRING15 by March 9.*

Browse classes and register online.

Sign up for your audition! March 4, 5 & 21. New students wishing to study at an upper level are asked to audition before a faculty panel. For audition schedule, details and sign up info, visit the Auditions & Prerequisites page. Level 1 offerings are open to all without prerequisite or audition.

(*Cannot be applied retroactively; not valid for workshop offerings)

Storm Juno: Monday evening and all Tuesday classes CANCELLED

Due to the snow storm, HB Studio has cancelled the following Monday classes, and all Tuesday classes. Currently cancelled classes are:

MONDAY 1/26:
Mon 4:00pm Acting Improvisation with Rasa Allan Kazlas
Mon 5:30pm Singing Voice with Martha Bernard
Mon 5:30pm Speech 2 with Theresa McElwee
Mon 6:30pm Directing with Jack Hofsiss
Mon 7pm Advanced Scene Study with Laura Esterman
Mon 7pm Acting 1 with David Deblinger

TUESDAY 1/27:
All classes are cancelled. HB Studio will be closed.

Please check back here or at our Facebook page for updates.

TWENTIETH CENTURY BLUES: NOT JUST A TALENT TO AMUSE 

Readings of scenes from Fumed OakPost-MortemA Song at TwilightThe Vortex, and others, as well as songs and poetry by “The Master,” Noël Coward.

Saturday, February 28 | 7:30pm 
HB Playwrights Theatre, 124 Bank Street
$10 suggested donation | $5 HB students & staff

RSVP online – Online reservations are full, a walk in list will be made on the night of the reading and we will accommodate as many guests as possible!  Thank you!

Cast:  Laura Esterman, Eric Michael Gillett, Rochelle Oliver, Amanda Quaid, Mark Blum, Erik Singer, Noel Velez and Fritz Weaver.

Curated by: Alan Pally

Noel Coward Foundation

This program is part of Don’t Let’s Be Beastly, HB Studio’s year-long celebration of the work of Noël Coward, made possible by the generous support of the Noël Coward Foundation. 

 

Winter Registration, Union Discounts & Spring Scholarship Applications

Welcome to the Winter Term! Winter registration continues through Feb 1.
Winter Term will run 10 weeks, Jan 12 – March 22.

AEA and SAG/AFTRA union members get 5% off Winter enrollment. Present your membership card at the HB registration office, or call 212-675-2370 x.1

Browse classes and register online.

Spring Term Scholarship Applications are now being accepted. Apply Online.
Application deadline: Jan 29.
Scholarships generally support full or partial enrollment in one studio class. Visit our Financial Aid page for details.

Sign up for your audition! New students wishing to study at an upper level are asked to audition before a faculty panel. For audition schedule, details and sign up info, visit our Auditions & Prerequisites page. Level 1 offerings are open to all without prerequisite or audition.

(*Cannot be applied retroactively; not valid for workshop offerings.)

Winter Registration & Union Discount

Winter Term registration is now open. Winter Term will run 10 weeks, January 12 – March 22.

AEA and SAG/AFTRA union members get 5% off Winter registration. Present your membership card at the HB registration office, or call 212-675-2370 x. 1.*

Browse classes and register online.

Sign up for your audition! New students wishing to study at an upper level are asked to audition before a faculty panel. For audition schedule, details and sign up info, visit the Auditions & Prerequisites page. Level 1 offerings are open to all without prerequisite or audition.

(*Cannot be applied retroactively; not valid for workshop offerings)

In Memoriam: Maggie DeVora

Our thanks to Gina Stahlnecker for providing this remembrance.

Maggie DaVora, longtime HB student of Austin Pendleton, Ed Morehouse and Martha Bernard succumbed to Multiple Myeloma Saturday, November 15.  Maggie put up a fierce battle over an almost three year period against the illness.  She even appeared in the role of Miss Brown in Look Homeward, Angel directed by Austin Pendleton, wearing a surgical mask during her treatment. A beautiful performance and testament to her courage, optimism and love of theatre and acting.

Maggie was a friend to all who knew her.  Red hair bouncing in the breeze, a wide and beautiful smile and a personality that was always up, happy and giving to her friends and colleagues.  All qualities that she kept in clear evidence even into the days just before her passing.  May the gods of theatre and acting look over Maggie as she enters a new place of love and eternal happiness—that redhead and smiling face will greet us again one day, at an audition for the next play being produced up there!

Call for Proposals: 2015 First Floor Studio Residencies

The HB Studio Artistic Council is now accepting applications for the 2015 First Floor Studio Residencies.

Deadline for Proposals: Wednesday, December 17, 2014
Selected Projects will be announced by: Monday, January 19, 2015
 SUBMIT PROPOSALS ONLINE  AT THIS LINK

HB Studio is dedicated to training and practice for the theatre. The Studio will, at intervals throughout the year, make workshop performance space available in our First Floor Studio, for the development of creative projects that further the training and artistic practices fostered at HB. The Studio is not a producing organization, nor should these presentations be construed as “showcases.” Rather, we offer an opportunity for practicing theatre artists to collaborate on experimental projects, to be shared among peers and colleagues, for constructive critical feedback and mutual growth.  Continue reading →

Winter Registration & Early Bird Discount!

Winter Term registration is now open. Winter Term will run 10 weeks, January 12 – March 22.
Early Bird Discount!Get 10% off Winter registration with code WINTER15. Valid through December 15.*

Browse classes and register online.

Sign up for your audition! New students wishing to study at an upper level are asked to audition before a faculty panel. For audition schedule, details and sign up info, visit the Auditions & Prerequisites page. Level 1 offerings are open to all without prerequisite or audition.

(*Cannot be applied retroactively; not valid for workshop offerings)