Established in memory of Alan M. Bluestone, this scholarship is intended to encourage a young person’s interest in theatre and lend critical support to emerging talent. Support is offered for a student to attend a full year (3 terms) of the Hagen Teen Intensive.
Applications due: August 18
Awards will be announced by August 25
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HB is delighted to announce that $15,857 has already been raised to help support our programs for theater artists.
Thank you, dear friends and generous supporters, for getting us halfway to that $30,000 goal!
If you have yet to make a gift, please join us now. Your support will help provide our professional and aspiring actors, playwrights, and directors with classes and workshops led by experienced artists and master teachers, residencies for project development, and opportunities to explore work in performance.
Contributions can also be earmarked for our scholarship fund to help those students with the greatest need, The Hagen Institute, performances and productions, or improvements in our classrooms and buildings.
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Sign up now for a class the second half of Summer! Check out these 5-week offerings:
Singing Voice 1 with Martha Bernard | 6-8pm Mon | July 20-Aug 17 | $205
Singing Voice 1 with Martha Bernard | 1-3pm Tue | July 21-Aug 18 | $205
Singing Voice 1 with John Bowen | 7-9pm Weds | July 22-Aug 19 | $205
Singing Voice 2 with Martha Bernard | 5:30-7:30pm Thur | July 23-Aug 20 | $205
Alexander Technique with Martha Bernard | 3:30-5pm Thur | July 23-Aug 20 | $155
For Young People:
Acting for Teens (14-17) with Marlene Mancini | 11am-1pm Sat | July 25-Aug 22 | $205
Acting for Young People (9-13):
– with Marlene Mancini | 1-3pm Sat | July 25-Aug 22 | $205
– with Claudia Terry | 4-6pm Fri | July 24-Aug 21 | $205
Teen Audition Intensive | 1pm-5:30pm Wed | July 22-Aug 19 | $308
Union Discount: AEA and SAG/AFTRA members receive 10% off Summer Term enrollment when registering by July 30. Please present your membership card in the registration office, or email a copy to registration@hbstudio.org.
Join Austin Pendleton as he interviews 
actor Peter Sarsgaard!
Sunday, July 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
PETER SARSGAARD continues to remain an actor renowned for his range and ability to access what is behind the often complicated facades of the characters he plays. He was most recently seen on the big screen in Kelly Reichardt’s NIGHT MOVES, Woody Allen’s BLUE JASMINE opposite Cate Blanchett and LOVELACE opposite Amanda Seyfried. Continue reading →
BLACK PROTAGONIST
First Floor Studio Residency
Workshop Performances
Saturday June 27th & Sunday June 28th at 7pm
Saturday July 11th & Sunday July 12th at 8pm
Featuring: James Dow, Peregrine Heard, Lauren LaRocca, Cyndii Johnson, Emily Stout, Casey Worthington
The Associates create plays through a process of research, improvisation, new playwriting techniques, and daring. We poke at the place where the mundane and the grotesque converge: in the nooks and crannies of human desire. Our plays aim to change the trajectory of story-telling tradition. The workshop we are presenting through HB’s First Floor Studio Residency is the product of a revision of our (dark) identity comedy, Black Protagonist, and a new look at forms of audience participation.
First Floor Studio Residency – HB Studio is dedicated to training and practice for the theatre and to the ongoing artistic development of actors, directors, and playwrights. 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” or “productions.” Rather, we offer an opportunity for associated artists to collaborate on experimental projects, to be shared among peers and colleagues, for constructive critical feedback and mutual growth.
This program is made possible through the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and many generous supporters.
A 10-MINUTE PLAY FESTIVAL featuring
selected work from the playwriting classes of
Donna de Matteo and Julie McKee.
RSVP
or call 212-989-7856 between 1pm-5pm, Monday through Friday
HB Playwright’s Theatre
June 25, 26, 27, and 28 at 8pm, June 27 and 28 at 3pm
DESIGN FOR LIVING
Performance Lab
First Floor Studio, 120 Bank Street
7pm | May 20, 21, 22, 23, & 24
by Noël Coward
Directed by Jack Hofsiss
“Love Among The Artists”
With Jim Boerlin, Nick DeSimone, Brian Groudan, Duncan Hazard, Laura Hooper, Jesse Lehman, Elizabeth Maille, Marion McCorry, Ashish Pant, Ruby Rees-Wemyss and Jeffrey Young
Assistant Director | Ashish Pant
Set Designer | Nikolay Sviridchik
Lighting Designer | Beverly Emmons
Costume Designer | Catherine Siracusa
Sound Designer | Skip Greer
Stage Manager | KT Sanders
Asst. Stage Manager | Vanessa Joyce
Technical Director | Brian Kafel
Production Manager | Daniel Allen Nelson
HB Performance Labs provide actors who are well advanced in their technique opportunities to participate in the development and performance of Studio works-in-progress, guided by HB faculty or guest artists. Open by audition, participation is free of charge. Labs meet three times weekly over 5 weeks, with public sharing — performances or open rehearsals — in week 5.
This program is made possible with the generous support of the Noël Coward Foundation
Summer Term registration is now open. Summer Term will run 10 weeks, June 15 – August 23, with several 5-week class offerings.
Early Bird Discount: To receive 10% off Summer Term enrollment, register by June 1st with code SUMMER15*
Union Discount: AEA and SAG/AFTRA members receive 20% off Summer Term enrollment when registering by June 1. Please present your membership card in the registration office, or email a copy to registration@hbstudio.org. After June 1, Union Members can still receive a 10% discount until July 26.*
(Discounts not valid for workshop offerings, cannot be combined, and cannot be applied retroactively)*
Browse classes and register online.
Sign up for your audition! May 8 & 12 and June 1 & 2. 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.
HB Playwrights Theatre seeks:
1.) Stage Management Intern for DESIGN FOR LIVING
2.) Theatre Technicians & Run Crew for DESIGN FOR LIVING
3.) Stage Management Intern for June’s THE CENTRAL PARK PLAYS
Position Details: Continue reading →
SEEKING VOLUNTEERS:
Please join us as a volunteer April 28 – May 1 to help spruce up our working home. 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 Mark Klaman at development@hbstudio.org with offers of food donations.
KEY STUDENTS, FA’S & SA’S:
All Key Students, FA’s and SA’s are required to participate in one 4-hour shift (Tue, April 28 – Fri, May 1). Use this online form to sign up: KEY, FA & SA SIGN UP