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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
SIGN UP

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.

WWW.TITLEPOINT.ORG

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.

In Memoriam: Jack Hofsiss

From DESIGN FOR LIVING, directed by Jack Hofsiss at HB Studio, May 2015.

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.

Performance Lab – 70, Girls, 70

HB Studio presents 

70, GIRLS, 70

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

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 equitylogo_rgbcolor

INFO SESSION: PERFORMANCE AND PROJECT DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES AT HB STUDIO

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:

Perform
Audition
Get your info into our casting files
Develop a new project in rehearsal
Submit a new play for consideration for reading or production
Rent space to produce your own work

…and more!

Wednesday, September 28 at 2:00PM

HB Playwrights Theatre, 124 Bank Street

Now Accepting Proposals for 2017 HB Studio Residency Projects

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 →

SEEKING: STAGE MANAGER for The Tchaikovsky Vignettes

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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