News & Events

Spring Clean Up 2015

SEEKING VOLUNTEERS:
Please join us as a volunteer April 28 – May 1 to help spruce up our working home. Breakfast and lunch will be provided to volunteers! Use our online form to sign up: VOLUNTEER SIGN UP

SEEKING FOOD DONATIONS:
Can’t spare the time but want to support the effort? Donate refreshments to keep our volunteers well fed! Please contact Mark Klaman at development@hbstudio.org with offers of food donations.

KEY STUDENTS, FA’S & SA’S:
All Key Students, FA’s and SA’s are required to participate in one 4-hour shift (Tue, April 28 – Fri, May 1). Use this online form to sign up: KEY, FA & SA SIGN UP

THE CENTRAL PARK PLAYS

Central Park Plays

A 10-MINUTE PLAY FESTIVAL featuring
selected work from the playwriting classes of
Donna de Matteo and Julie McKee.

RSVP
or call 212-989-7856 between 1pm-5pm, Monday through Friday

HB Playwright’s Theatre
April 23, 24, 25, & 26 at 8pm and April 25 at 3pm

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First Floor Studio Residency – ILLINOIS

ILLINOIS

First Floor Studio Residency
Saturdays at 7pm and Sundays at 5pm
April 4 & 5, 11 & 12, 18 & 19, 25 & 26

Written and Directed by: Terry Gibson

Featuring: Rachel Errington, Daren Kelly, Andy McCutcheon, Michele Severino

“David and Elizabeth, two young Manhattan financial advisors, get to know each other before enticing clients into making investments in art.”

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First Floor Studio Residency
HB Studio is dedicated to training and practice for the theatre and to the ongoing artistic development of actors, directors, and playwrights. 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” or “productions.” Rather, we offer an opportunity for associated artists to collaborate on experimental projects, to be shared among peers and colleagues, for constructive critical feedback and mutual growth.

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Spring Registration, Union Discount, & Auditions

Register Now for the Spring Term. 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). The last day to register is April 12.

Union Discount! SAG/AFTRA and AEA members get 10% off Spring registration. Please present your membership card at the Registration office to receive the discount.*

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)

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

For 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.

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

Performance Lab – ACROSS THE WAY

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Boundaries are meant to be crossed, obliterated even, to protect the ones we love?

…Someone is about to find out.

ACROSS THE WAY

HB Studio 2015 Winter Performance Lab
Friday, February 20 | 8pm
Saturday, February 21 | 8pm
Sunday, February 22 | 7pm
First Floor Studio | 120 Bank Street

Director: Amy Wright
Written by: Perry Guzzi

Cast:
Chantelle Goulevitch
Louise Mittelman
Will Arvidson

Crew:
Set Design: Nikolay Sviridchik
Music: Gaya
Sound Design: George Port
House Technician: Brian Kafel
Assistant to Director/Stage Manager: Ashish Pant

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 Oak, Post-Mortem, A Song at Twilight, The 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

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.