The HB Artistic Council is pleased to announce the 2025 HB Residency recipients: TomokoH DeblinGer, Rajendra Ramoon Maharaj, Paola Alexandra Soto, Felipe Vásquez-Encamilla, Julio Vaquero & Pablo Concha.
HB Studio is dedicated to training and practice for the theater, and seeks to provide an environment for the nurturing and growth of theater artists. In pursuit of this goal, HB offers a limited number of one-week Rehearsal Space Residencies each year for the development of creative projects. The HB Rehearsal Space Residency is an opportunity for practicing theater artists to collaborate on experimental projects, develop new work, and share workshop presentations among peers and colleagues, for constructive critical feedback and mutual growth. (Please note, the residency’s focus is on rehearsal and development, not production, and we are unlikely to select projects which are primarily intended to “showcase” work). The Rehearsal Space Residency is an open opportunity; you do not have to be affiliated with HB Studio to apply. However we do ask that our resident artists work with us to engage with our community of students and faculty while in residence at HB.
2025 Recipients
Felipe Vásquez-Encamilla, Julio Vaquero & Pablo Concha
Divergents: What Would You Do For Love?
June 9–15, 2025 | Presentation Date TBA
This original musical weaves narratives exploring the LGBTQ+ experience in a semi-reimagined Chile, where friends navigate heartbreak, love, and loss, as they discover their identities and past while building their future.
TomokoH DeblinGer
MY BODY SAYS NO
June 23-29, 2025 | Presentation Date TBA
Tohko, ‘a woman, a wife, a mother,’ is living in Brooklyn. She begins to notice mysterious things happening to her body. Dreams, fantasies lay bare not only what she really desires, but forces her to question who she really is.
Rajendra Ramoon Maharaj
waiting: a queer black tragicomedy in two acts
July 7–13, 2025 | Presentation Date TBA
Inspired by Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, waiting follows trapped drag queens Chi-Chi and Cornbread as they wait atop the partially submerged club in St. Bernard Parish in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Surrounded by a dirty river of trash, dead bodies, debris, and hungry gators, the pair wait to be rescued.
Paola Alexandra Soto
Lucha Libre
July 21–27, 2025 | Presentation Date TBA
When Yaneliz, a young woman growing up in the Dominican Republic during the economically tumultuous 1970s, gets her first period, she finds that one cannot be both a “luchadora” (wrestler) and a woman. As pressure from family, society, and her own body closes in, Yaneliz must prevail against all expectations.
