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.
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.
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.
We are deeply saddened to share the news that beloved director and teacher Jack Hofsiss has passed away.
Brilliant director, teacher, a creative force, a true man of the theater, we are truly lucky to have had Jack with us at HB. We will miss him sorely. We remember him with gratitude.
Our hearts go out to his friends and family.
An LA Times article on him back in 1988 wrote:
“I like smart and brave actors,” said director Jack Hofsiss, seated outside USC’s Stop Gap Theatre, where he is preparing the world premiere of David Stevens’ “The Sum of Us” (opening tonight). “But ultimately–when it’s time to perform–actors have to leave their smartness at the stage door, and carry their bravery on stage.”
The viewing is 4:00pm to 9:00pm on Friday (Sept 16th) at Ortiz Funeral Home, 235 West 72nd st.
The service is 9:15am Saturday morning (Sept 17th) at St. Paul the Apostle, at Columbus and 60th.
Read his obit in the NY Times here.
HB Studio presents
Book by David Thompson and Norman L. Martin
Music by John Kander
Lyrics by Fred Ebb
Based on the play Breath of Spring by Peter Coke, adapted by Joe Masteroff
Directed by Lorraine Serabian
September 23, 24, 25 | 7pm
In order to save their home from the wrecking ball, a group of lively senior citizens start a petty theft ring that leads to rollicking hijinks and the start of a new love.
Featuring: Thomas Beel*, Graham Shadow Boxer, Georgia Buchanan*, Rochelle Chamlin, Patricia Clune*, Mollie Collison*, Letty Ferrer*, Richard Fisher, Kevin Gilmartin*, Nicole Gut*, Joanne Joseph, Katherine Keenan, Gordon Kupperstein*, Ellen Orchid Mausner*, Katherine O’Sullivan*, Jennifer Sage, Peter Stone, Leni Tabb, Kenneth Thompson, Joanne Joseph*, Lisa Yapp
HB Playwrights Theatre | 124 Bank Street | New York, NY 10014
Friday, September 23 – Join us after the show for a benefit cast party!
Featuring live jazz, small bites, wine, and the cast of 70, GIRLS, 70!
Tickets are $50 – click here to purchase
Proceeds benefit HB Studio, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization
Music Director | Paul Chamlin
Chreographer | Ye Hao
Lighting Designer | Devin Cameron
Costume Designer | Catherine Siracusa
Technical Director | Tavish Miller
Assistant Director | Jason Min
Stage Manager | Liz Nielsen
SM & Costume Assistant | Maria Castillo
Illustration by Olivia Leyva
Thank you to The Frederick Loewe Foundation for their support of this project.
“70, Girls, 70” is presented by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH, INC.
*these Actors are appearing courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association 
Want to know more about opportunities to perform or develop your own work at HB? Whether you are an actor, playwright, director, an individual or a member of a collective, we’ll give you a rundown of current opportunities available to HB Students to:
HB STUDIO ARTISTIC COUNCIL
2017 PROPOSAL GUIDELINES AND CALL FOR PROPOSALS
HB STUDIO FIRST FLOOR STUDIO RESIDENCIES
Deadline for Proposals: Tuesday, November 1, 2016
Selected Projects will be announced by: January 9, 2017
Applications are now closed
Do you have questions about the First Floor Studio Residency, the application process, or performance and project development opportunities at HB Studio in general? Join us for an INFO SESSION:
Wednesday, September 28| 2pm | HB Playwrights Theatre | 124 Bank Street
ABOUT THE FIRST FLOOR STUDIO RESIDENCY: Continue reading →
Looking for an organized, fluid and confident guy or gal to work alongside me throughout my residency at HB Studio this fall. I’ll be working on a dance theatre piece set to the music of Tchaikovsky. The ideal candidate is at ease with scheduling and able to call the performances (tentatively Nov 13, 19, 20). Bonus would be if they were passionate about dance.
Non-equity. Small Stipend. Please email allisonplamondon@gmail.com
Seeking charismatic Dancers and Actors who move very well for an upcoming residency at HB Studio, choreographed by Allison Plamondon.
MALE/FEMALE DANCERS: Seeking dancers with stage presence, strong technique and experience in contemporary dance. Acting experience a plus.
MALE/FEMALE ACTORS: Seeking all types (especially character actors) who are connected physically, enjoy exploration and are adept at storytelling through movement.
Auditions will be held Tuesday, August 30th at HB Studio, 120 Bank St. For an audition, please submit pic and res to allisonplamondon@gmail.com
Please also state preference of afternoon or evening audition time slot.
PROJECT DATES: Part-time rehearsals begin September 10th, 2016 Performances mid-November (tentatively Nov 13, 19, 20th)
ABOUT THE PROJECT: The Tchaikovsky Vignettes are a series of dance theatre pieces set to the music of Tchaikovsky, using the characters of Anton Chekhov as inspiration.
Mercedes Ruehl returns to HB Studio this Fall to teach an advanced Scene Study – Studio Practice course. Open by application only.
Tuesdays & Thursdays | Sept 13 – Oct 20
6:30pm – 9pm | $545
(6 weeks / 12 sessions)
Applications for the fall term are now closed.
*Prior students of Ms. Ruehl’s may register without application.
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
For professional performers who desire to return to, or maintain an ongoing relationship with a dynamic and fertile state of learning. The goal: to use the specifics of language, action, subtext, circumstance, and relationships in order to connect with the work at the deepest most personal level. You are encouraged to push boundaries with the aim of building ever more complex characters and situations, allowing and exploring what is powerfully, unexpectedly revealed.
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