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Internationally renowned director, writer, and master teacher Jack Garfein visits us from Paris this December to teach a two-week intensive seminar:

The Art of Acting
Monday – Friday, December 2nd – 6th & 9th – 13th
10am – 3pm, $720
Submission required: click here for details

“Imitation will never reveal the real. It is only the involuntary memory, the magician in ourselves, the work of the latent subconscious, that is able to grasp the experience of another…”
– Jack Garfein, LIFE AND ACTING

First Floor Studio Performance Project: Work-in-Progress

Directed by Carol Goodheart and Rochelle Oliver.
Featuring Myles Forster and Maria Fontanals Novell.

Open rehearsals:
Saturday, October 12th, 8PM
Sunday, October 13th, 8PM

Performances: 
Saturday, October 19th, 8PM
Sunday, October 20th, 8PM
Saturday, October 26th, 8PM
Sunday, October 27th, 8PM

First Floor Studio, HB Studio
120 Bank Street, NYC

All are welcome! No admission charge.

This program is made possible through the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature

Welcome to the Fall Term at HB Studio! Classes are now underway. Browse our class offerings. Fall Term runs 10 weeks, Sept 18 – Nov 26. The last day to register for Fall classes is October 8th.

There’s still time to audition for our upcoming Fall Term. If you are new to HB Studio and are interested in Auditioning for our course offerings above Level 1, a new round of auditions have been added on Monday September 16th. Get all the details from our Auditions page.

First Floor Studio Performance Project

directed by George Bartenieff

Four weekends, September 7 – 29, 2013:

Sat, Sept 07 – 8PM: Troy Scott, 8:30PM: Beth Dzuricky
Sun, Sept 08 – 8PM: Lauren Stanford, 8:30PM: Geralyn Cassidy
Sat, Sept 14 – 8PM: Troy Scott, 8:30PM: Beth Dzuricky
Sun, Sept 15 – 8PM: Lauren Stanford, 8:30PM: Geralyn Cassidy
Sat, Sept 21 – 8PM: Trinidad Alcorta, 8:30PM: Trey Irvine
Sun, Sept 22 – 8PM: Trinidad Alcorta, 8:30PM: Trey Irvine
Sat, Sept 28 & Sun, Sept 29 – 8PM: Melody Ward

First Floor Studio, HB Studio
120 Bank Street, NYC

All are welcome! No admission charge.

This program is made possible through the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature

HB’s Fall Benefit is taking place on Monday, November 11, 2013 at Manhattan Penthouse. Our honorees this year are Oscar, Emmy, and Tony award winning designer and director Tony Walton and two-time Tony award winning actress Katie Finneran.

Hosted by David Hyde Pierce and with special guests Cynthia Nixon and Emma Walton, we will present our honorees with the 2013 Herbert Berghof-Uta Hagen Achievement Awards for their extraordinary contributions to the theatre and its community.

Sponsorships are still available. Tickets and journal ads going on sale soon! For more information, please contact Mark Klaman, Development Manager, at 212-675-2370 x39 or mklaman@hbstudio.org.

HB Studio announces the inauguration of the Alan M. Bluestone Scholarship to provide annual support for a student to participate in a full year of the Hagen Teen Intensive program.

The scholarship is established in memory of Alan M. Bluestone, a cherished member of the HB Studio community, on the occasion of his birthday (August 23), with a gift from his cousins. A professional stage manager, Alan understood all aspects of the theatre and shared with infectious enthusiasm his love and appreciation for its literature. The scholarship is intended to encourage a young person’s interest in theatre and lend critical support to emerging talent.

HB notes with sadness the passing of June Eve Story, a long-time member of our movement faculty, teaching classes in ballet and jazz dance. Her spirited teaching brightened many lives.

June was a musical performer, dancer and choreographer. She studied ballet with Yurek Lazowsky, Madame Swaboda, Anton Vilsak, Alfredo Corvino, Anthony Tudor, William Griffith, and Finis Jhung; studied jazz with Matt Mattox. On Broadway she appeared in MAGGIE FLYNN, I HAD A BALL and FOXY. She was in the National Tour of CARNIVAL and appeared Off-Broadway in THE FAMILY and in stock and dinner theatre in NORMAN IS THAT YOU?, PAJAMA GAME, DESTRY, ON THE TOWN, LI’L ABNER, MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS, GUYS AND DOLLS, and PAINT YOUR WAGON. Off-Off Broadway credits include TOM JONES, MISS JULIE, ARBUCKLE’S RAPE, SUMMER OF 17TH DOLL, and MOONBRIDGE. She appeared in the films A CHORUS LINE, THE NIGHT THEY RAIDED MINSKY’S, and THE DAYDREAMER, and made television appearances on the ED SULLIVAN SHOW and the Shirley MacLaine special. Her choreography credits include ARBUCKLE’S RAPE and MADWOMAN OF CHAILLOT. She danced with the Philadelphia Ballet Guild, Philadelphia Opera Ballet and Ballet Trianon.

A memorial is planned for the fall. Details will be announced. Our condolences to June’s family.

First Floor Studio Performance Project

“In my dreams I am not crippled; in my dreams I dance.” – Louise Brooks

A work-in-progress collaboratively written, developed and performed by:

ManHo Kim
Elisa Halma
Tyrone Rigney
Renee Yakemchuk
Edward Freeman

Saturday & Sunday
August 24 & 25, 2013
8:00pm

First Floor Studio, HB Studio
120 Bank Street, NYC

No admission charge! All are welcome.

This program is made possible through the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature