News & Events

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

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. 

 

People Who Make Theatre – Shawn René Graham of The Field

Monday, March 2, 2015 | 7:30pm (doors at 7pm) PWMT_Shawn Rene Graham_Eblast
HB Playwrights Theatre, 124 Bank Street, NYC
All are welcome! Meet & Greet Reception to follow
$10 suggested donation | $5 HB students & staff

Join Shawn René Graham of The Field to learn about their resources for theatre artists!

RSVP


Founded by artists for artists, The Field is dedicated to providing strategic services to thousands of performing artists and companies in New York City and beyond. They foster creative exploration, steward innovative management strategies, and are delighted to help artists reach their fullest potential.
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The HB Playwrights Slam

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A marathon reading of 10 minute pieces by the HB Studio playwrights

Saturday & Sunday, January 24 & 25 | 5pm-8pm
HB Playwrights Theatre | 124 Bank Street
Suggested Donation $10/$5 HB students

with MC Fabio Motta

No RSVP required

 

 

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.)

People Who Make Theatre: George Forbes

PWMT_George Forbes_Poster v1A conversation on the state of Off-Broadway theatre.

With George Forbes, Executive Director of the Lucille Lortel Foundation and former president of the League of Off-Broadway Theaters.

Moderated by Amanda Quaid.

Monday, January 12, 2015 | 7:30pm (doors at 7pm)
HB Playwrights Theatre, 124 Bank Street, NYC
All are welcome! Meet & Greet Reception to follow
$10 suggested donation | $5 HB students & staff

RSVP

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!

The Jack & Julie Project

JJ-11-14_timeA collaborative staged reading of selected 10 minute plays from the students of Julie McKee, directed by the students of Jack Hofsiss.

Friday & Saturday | November 21 & 22, 8pm
HB Playwrights Theatre, 124 Bank Street
Free! First come, first served

Featuring:

Quest in the West
By Richard Elder Adams
Directed by Heesuk Chae
with Nicole Henry & Robert Hickey

Sh*t and the Stars
By Jim Broaddus
Directed By Kevin Costigan
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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 →