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People Who Make Theater: The Lark – A Play Development Center

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A Conversation with Andrea Hiebler of The Lark

Moderated by Ed Napier

Monday, May 2 | 7:30pm
HB Playwrights Theatre | 124 Bank Street
$10 suggested donation | $5 HB students/staff

The Lark is an international theater laboratory, based in New York City, dedicated to empowering playwrights by providing transformative support within a global community.  Founded in 1994, The Lark provides writers with funding, space, collaborators, audiences, professional connections, and the freedom to design their own processes of exploration. The guiding principal of The Lark’s work is the belief that playwrights are society’s truth tellers, and their work strengthens our collective capacity to understand our world and imagine its future.

For more information about the artists, initiatives and plays of The Lark, please visit: www.larktheatre.org. Continue reading →

NEXUS – A First Floor Studio Residency

NEXUS

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A FIRST FLOOR STUDIO RESIDENCY

NEXUS investigates the contemporary social connections, both ubiquitous and elusive, through the eyes of non-Americans in NYC.

Saturday & Sunday
April 23 & 24 | 7pm
FREE! | RSVP ONLINE HERE
HB Studio, First Floor Studio
120 Bank Street

Writing/Directing
Elizabeth Maille
Jue Yang

Cast
Nixon Jeon
Mateo Lamuño
Uki Pavlovic
Lucia Schulz Continue reading →

Volunteer at Spring Clean Up!

SEEKING VOLUNTEERS:
Please join us for some time during May 3 – 6 to help spruce up our working home. All Key Students, FA’s and SA’s are required to participate in one 4-hour shift. 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 Megan Foehr at mfoehr@hbstudio.org with offers of food donations.

In Memoriam: Anne Jackson

Anne JacksonVery sad to note the passing of the wonderful Anne Jackson, much loved by our founders and all at HB. Anne taught many years with us, her students were devoted to her. She brought much joy, on stage and in the classroom. When we had Eli and Anne for one of our public talks, they laughed, and made us laugh, through the whole thing.

New York Times Obituary

The Hagen Summer Intensive – A Few Spots Left! Apply Today.

The Hagen Summer Intensive is a rigorous, 6-week workshop that probes the practical applications of Uta Hagen’s technique as discussed in her book A CHALLENGE FOR THE ACTOR. Through acting technique, scene study, script analysis and technical exercises, “The Six Steps” will become an integral part of the actor’s craft. When you have strong technique and more confidence in how to find yourself in the role, acting will be joyful. Spots are going fast, so apply today!

Monday – Friday | 9:00am – 5:00pm | June 19 – July 29, 2016 | $3,250
Classes include: Acting Technique, Scene Study, Alexander Technique, Movement & Voice

Open by Audition & Application: For your audition, please prepare the following: Two three-minute contrasting, contemporary monologues. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.

Apply Online

(includes $50 non-refundable application fee)

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Apply for a Scholarship for Summer Term!

Applications are now being accepted for Summer Term scholarships.
Application deadline: April 25

Scholarships generally support partial enrollment in one studio class, and are awarded on consideration of both merit and need. Summer Term will run 10 weeks, June 13 – August 21. Summer registration opens May 2.

BEACH TRIP

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HB Studio presents
BEACH TRIP

By Perry Guzzi
Directed by Amy Wright

April 8, 9, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 | 8pm
April 9, 10, 16, 17 | 3pm Matinee

RSVP Online Here

HB Playwrights Theatre
124 Bank Street
New York, NY 10014


How far would you go to remove yourself from peril?
For Tru and Baz, there’s only one answer: Pack your toothbrush and get to Mexico. Continue reading →

HB Studio Faculty and Alumni featured in the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival!

SAPWStarring Austin Pendleton has been accepted in the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival! The documentary film by HB Alumnus, David Holmes, features our very own faculty member Austin Pendleton. Footage was shot in Austin‘s classes at HB Studio over a period of a few years.

Starring Austin Pendleton, directed by Gene Gallerano and David H. Holmes. (USA) – World Premiere. The most famous actor you’ve never heard of; Austin Pendleton reflects on his life and craft while his A-list peers discuss his vast influence and what it means to be an original in a celebrity-obsessed world. Includes interviews with Philip Seymour Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Natalie Portman, Olympia Dukakis, and Maggie Gyllenhaal.

Also part of the Tribeca Film Festival short films lineup is the short film The Mulberry Bush, directed and written by Neil Labute which features our very own HB Alumnus Victor Slezak.

The Mulberry Bush, directed and written by Neil LaBute. (USA) – World Premiere. Two men sit next to each other on an autumn day in Central Park. They make small talk about the weather and the joys of summer. When the conversation turns personal, however, it becomes clear that this is no random encounter, and they are headed toward a startling confrontation.

Click here for more details.