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Benefit Event – Shakespeare on Bank Street
SHAKESPEARE ON BANK STREET
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For generations, the HB community has been a source of inspiration and connection for the many thousands of talented souls that have come through our doors in the heart of Greenwich Village. Over the past 10 years, HB Studio has hosted an annual benefit to celebrate our theater community and honor esteemed alumni, colleagues and dear friends. This year HB Studio is bringing it all back home, and bringing it back to the process of making theater.
Instead of one big benefit bash this year, throughout the 2016-2017 season, HB will be hosting small benefit performance events in our theater at 124 Bank Street. First up this season is: Continue reading →
People Who Make Theater – ACTING FOR SERIES TELEVISION with Adam Bernstein
ACTING FOR SERIES TELEVISION
A Conversation with Emmy Award-Winning Director Adam Bernstein
Moderated by Joanna Pinto and Jim Zukowski
Wednesday, December 7th | 7:30pm
$5-10 suggested donation
HB Playwrights Theatre, 124 Bank Street
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Join us for a conversation with Director Adam Bernstein, focused on acting for series television. Adam has directed several TV pilots, including FARGO, 30 ROCK, SCRUBS, and STRANGERS WITH CANDY, as well as multiple episodes of OZ and BREAKING BAD. He has directed over seventy music videos, including “Love Shack” for the B-52’s. He is the recipient of an Emmy Award (30 ROCK), an MTV Award (“Love Shack”), and a Peabody Award (HOMICIDE – LIFE ON THE STREET).
MEMORIAL TO CELEBRATE MINDY LUCE
Friends and family of Mindy Luce will host a memorial this weekend:
Saturday November 12, 6:00
HB Playwrights Theatre
122 Bank Street
Mindy’s family asks those who would like to honor her, please make a donation in her name to HB Studio in lieu of flowers. There is also a GoFundMe campaign to help them defray costs of her final arrangements (https://www.gofundme.com/mindyluce).
If you have a photograph or video of Mindy that you would like to share, would like to say a few words at the event, or can bring some refreshments, please feel free to do so.
First Floor Studio Residency – THE TCHAIKOVSKY VIGNETTES
The Tchaikovsky Vignettes 
First Floor Studio Residency
The Tchaikovsky Vignettes are a series of dance theatre pieces inspired by the work of Anton Chekhov, set to the beautiful music of Tchaikovsky.
November 19 and 20 | 5:30 & 8pm
HB Studio | First Floor Studio | 120 Bank Street

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Choreographer: Allison Plamondon
Cast: Misha Braun, Brad Carnation, Laurie Deziel, Meredith Fulton, Marc Geller, Alessandro Magania, Fabio Motta, Hope Salas, Mia Seroc, Hanlon Smith-Dorsey, Sam Strasfeld, Dace Stringari, Nana Tatebayashi, Sarah Tranchina
Register for the Winter Term Today!
Registration for the Winter term begins November 1st. Winter term will run 10 weeks —
January 9 – March 19, 2017
Browse classes & register online. We also offer a variety of workshops.
UNION DISCOUNT*: AEA, SAG/AFTRA & AGVA members receive 10% off when registering for winter term by Feb. 26, 2017. Present membership card in the office or email a copy to registration@hbstudio.org
INTAKE AUDITION / CONSULTATIONS: Interested in our upper level classes? Audition & consult with a panel of HB’s faculty to discuss your goals, where you are in the work, and plan your course of study at HB Studio. For audition schedule, details and sign up info, visit the Auditions & Prerequisites page.
REEL SUBMISSIONS: Are you a working professional seeking a place to practice? Submit your reel and resume for placement into our studio practice classes.
*Discounts not valid for workshop offerings, cannot be combined, and cannot be applied retroactively
FINANCIAL AID: Scholarship & Work-Study Applications for the Spring Term 2017 are now open!
People Who Make Theater – WRITING FOR SERIES TELEVISION
WRITING FOR SERIES TELEVISION
Playwrights in ‘The Writers’ Room’ 
with
STEPHEN BELBER
CUSI CRAM
THERESA REBECK
moderated by
ED NAPIER
Monday, November 14, 2016 | 7:30pm
HB Playwrights Theatre, 124 Bank Street
$5-10 suggested donation
Join Ed Napier as he talks with fellow playwrights about working in the “Writers’ Rooms” of television series.
Stephen Belber’s TV credits include RESCUE ME, LAW & ORDER SVU, and pilots for F/X, The History Channel, FTVS and HBO. His plays (which include MATCH and TAPE) have been produced on Broadway and in over 25 countries. His movies include TAPE (directed by Richard Linklater) and THE LARAMIE PROJECT (Associate Writer).
Cusi Cram is a long-time writer on WGBH’s children’s program, ARTHUR, for which she has received three Emmy nominations, and was a writer on Showtime’s THE BIG C. Her plays have been produced by Primary Stages, LABYrinth Theater Company, The Williamstown Theater Festival, and many more, and published by Samuel French, Broadway Publishing and Playscripts.
Theresa Rebeck has written on TV for DREAM ON, BROOKLYN BRIDGE, L.A. LAW, AMERICAN DREAMER, MAXIMUM BOB, FIRST WAVE, THIRD WATCH, and was the creator of the NBC drama, SMASH. She is a widely produced playwright throughout the United States and abroad, and her produced feature films include HARRIET THE SPY and GOSSIP.
Ed Napier was on the writing staff of CRIMINAL MINDS for two seasons and sold a pilot to NBC. He has had his plays performed throughout NYC and LA. His work has been published by Dramatist Play Service, Smith and Kraus, and Applause Theatre Books.
Tina Benko teaches 5-Week Scene Study, Oct 23-Nov 20.
Tina Benko returns to HB this fall to teach a 5-week Studio Practice Scene Study Class:
Studio Practice – Scene Study
Sundays, October 23, 2016 – November 20, 2016
10:00 am – 1:00 pm | $280
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New to HB Studio? Submit your reel and resume online for placement into this class, or schedule an audition!
This course requires an audition/submission for new students or faculty placement into Studio Practice for continuing students.
A First Floor Studio Performance Residency – CHROMA KEY by Title:Point
Excerpts from CHROMA KEY by Title:Point 
A First Floor Studio Performance Residency
Preview scenes from Title:Point’s newest experimental multi-media-horror-comedy, witness their development process, and join the artists for talk backs:
Saturday, October 8 | 5pm | Scenes 2 & 3
Saturday, October 15 | 5pm | Scenes 1 & 7
Sunday, October 16 | 5pm | Scenes 5 & 6
HB Studio, First Floor Studio, 120 Bank Street
CHROMA KEY is staged through a first-person lens, each scene and event passing through the consciousness of the female protagonist. The work plays with the idea of subjectivity as a pop-drenched perceptual anxiety, where specificity and generality become confused, and comedy is impossible to extract from horror.
Written by: Spencer Thomas Campbell
Directed by: Theresa Buchheister & Spencer Thomas Campbell (AD)
Featuring: Justin Anselmi, Blake Bolan, Ryan William Downey, E James Ford, Kate Hurley, Brian Lady, Alyse Lamb, Catrin Lloyd-Bollard & Mia Schachter
Lighting Design: Brian Lady
Scenic Design: Claire Wood
Projection Design: Scott Ries
Sound Design: Adam Kruckenberg
Produced by: Title:Point with support from HB Studio, Mental Insight Foundation, and the North American Cultural Laboratory Deep Space Performance Residency Program.
TITLE:POINT is an experimental theatre company that has been producing work in a wide variety of spaces in NYC and around the US since 2006, among them Incubator Arts Project, AS220, Dixon Place, Lost Horizon Night Market, Chashama, Invisible Dog, Panoply Performance Lab,
Secret Project Robot and many more.
CHROMA KEY will be produced in full January ‘17 at The Brick as part of Brooklyn’s Exponential Festival.
People Who Make Theater – ART MEETS BUSINESS
A conversation with Mathew Heggem, “The Dancing CEO,”
CEO of SUM Innovation & Board President of GVCCC.
Monday, October 3rd | 7:30pm
HB Playwrights Theatre, 124 Bank Street
$5/$10 suggested donation
Moderated by Emma Osore, Arts & Business Council of New York Program Coordinator
Join us for a moderated talk on empowering artists to do business, with modern day renaissance man Mathew Heggem, known as “the dancing CEO.” Mathew joins Emma Osore in a conversation about the intersection of arts and business, and how artists may more effectively network with those in the business sector.
Mathew Heggem is Co-Founder and CEO of SUM Innovation, a NYC-based accounting consulting firm that helps fast-growth businesses and global entrepreneurs transform their businesses through the power of numbers. Mathew was an active member of NYC’s Conscious Capitalism chapter and serves as the Board President for the Greenwich Village Chelsea Chamber of Commerce. In true renaissance fashion, Mathew is also a nationally recognized, award-winning dance artist and co-founder for an NYC-based dance company, Left Side Labs, where he choreographs and performs in collaboration with Emma Batman.
Emma Osore is Program Coordinator for the Arts & Business Council of New York, working towards more creative partnerships between the arts and business communities in New York that both enhance the business skills of the arts sector and promote creative engagement within the business sector.
This program is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.