HB Resident Artist, Kayhan Irani presents The Whole World Over: Refugee Art Making & Making Home in the West Village
The Whole World Over is a conversation between refugee artists and with the refugee history of HB. The artists will discuss leaving home, making work, and finding new ways to start again and make art again. This conversation comes to HB from the artists at Artistic Freedom Initiative (AFI).
Thursday Nov 17 at 7 PM
at HB Playwrights Theatre
Featuring Kayhan Irani, Alejandro De La Guerra, Achiro Patricia Olwoch, and Zanya Andrade Fitz
Cultural Icons of Greenwich Village: a forum of readings and exerpts from four Greenwich, groundbreaking female playwrights
Get a glimpse into the life & work of Susan Glaspell, Djuna Barnes, Lorraine Hansberry, and Maria Irene Fornes
A program of readings and commentary focusing on the contributions of four extraordinary Greenwich Village residents. Curated by Alan Pally and featuring actors and special guest Migdalia Cruz. Presented with the support of the Noël Coward Foundation and in the spirit of Herbert Berghof and Uta Hagen, HB Studio’s founders, who lived on Washington Square.
Wednesday, Oct 26 at 7 PM
at HB Playwrights Theatre
Curated by Alan Pally
Special Guest Migdalia Cruz
Special Performances by Theresa McElwee and more.
In partnership with The Village Trip Festival. Program is funded by Noël Coward Foundation.
The Bar Collective Breaking Barriers Reading Series
The Bar Theater Collective is a group of new playwrights who met during the pandemic in HB Studio’s virtual classroom to develop their craft with master playwright Eduardo Machado. Our mission is to help develop and produce the theatrical talents of writers, artists, and performers who have been called to the performing arts from many paths. We are a diverse group made up of mostly women; we are US and foreign-born; racially and ethnically mixed; LGBTQ and straight; extroverts and introverts; experienced artists and enthusiastic newcomers.
October 2 Illusion or (Me & Renoir at Nate’N Al’s) by Gary Kahn
October 5 Doris & Bertie by Tiffa Foster
October 6 Knifework by Michael D. Sharp
October 7 A Hard Look by Elise Catera
October 8 A Part of Our Lives by Ellis Charles Hoffmeister
October 9 Life? Or Theater? by Marie Pohl
October 11 John & Sherlock by Beth Jacobson
October 13 School’s Out by Richie V. Dang
October 14 The Valley by Monica Stamas
October 15 Hyannis by Pat Golden
You N Yours: The Father File
HB Studio brings back another screening of David Deblinger’s YOU N YOURS: THE FATHER FILE.
Sunday, Sept 11 at 2 PM
at HB Playwrights Theatre
Conceived, Directed, and Created by David Deblinger
Produced by HB Studio, Ensemble Force, and, Jason Spiro
Associate Producers: Leyla Hadi, Cailin Chang, Nya Yeanafehn
Director of Photography for current footage, Jason Spiro
Director of Photography for past footage, Tomoko Miyagi
Editor Aaron Bryan
Animation Howard Better
In partnership with The Village Trip Festival.
You N Yours: The Father File
Friday July 22, 2022, 7:00pm A pilot for a “Sesame Street for adults” mining New York’s great creativity and diversity to explore one word, “Father,” …using five types of segments: documentary, comedy, animation, music and Shakespeare.
Director statement:
One of the existential threats we all face involves us not valuing human life, or seeing folks that look or speak or love differently than we do as less than human. I see this project as using artistic tools like story, animation, music and comedy to combat that lunacy.
Friday, July 22 at 7 PM
at HB Playwrights Theatre
Conceived, Directed, and Created by David Deblinger
Produced by HB Studio, Ensemble Force, and, Jason Spiro
Associate Producers: Leyla Hadi, Cailin Chang, Nya Yeanafehn
Director of Photography for current footage, Jason Spiro
Director of Photography for past footage, Tomoko Miyagi
Editor Aaron Bryan
Animation Howard Better
Acting Out: This is This
Acting Out offers professional training, practice, and performance opportunities for the formerly incarcerated, who experienced the transformative value of a theatre program while in prison and wish to continue their training upon release. Where they may continue to access traits long ignored, mine raw talent, harness misdirected energy, and build self-esteem through exposure to the rigors and rewards of a master arts environment, and in so doing, help reintegrate into their communities.
View the event program.
August 19, 7pm
August 20, 7pm
August 21, 3pm
at HB Studio Playwrights Theatre
1. Paradise Lost scene is presented by special arrangement with Walt Odets.
2. Answers and Jesus Hopped the A Train scenes are presented by special arrangement with Dramatist Play Service.
3. A Hatful of Rain and A Raisin in the Sun scenes are presented by special arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc.
Made possible by funding from the India Blake Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts.
