Hone your instructional skills and theaterwork expertise at The Hagen Teacher’s Lab. This intensive, five-day program is designed to serve professional teachers and actors who want to expand their understanding of the proven benefits of Hagen’s method. Held annually at HB Studio for over a decade, this intensive, five-day program is designed to serve local and international teachers, teachers-in-training, and professional actors who wish to explore and expand their understanding and experience of Uta Hagen’s approach to both the stage and the classroom. As an actor, you will be asked to prepare an exercise and rehearse a scene. As a teacher, you will need to consider how to empower each actor’s discovery through clear, specific guidance.
An organic transference of oneself to the role, the development of a new “I” who is alive in the world of the play… this process is to me like the drafting of a musical score in which the actor composes the character’s theme, orchestrates it, defines the phrases and the arrangement of the notes he will eventually play with spontaneity at each performance, putting to use his finely honed inner and outer techniques.
Uta Hagen, A Challenge for the Actor
Experience the depth and value of Hagen’s Object Exercises and Scene Study process in the artistic home where Uta Hagen taught her legendary professional classes for more than 50 years. Led by HB Studio teaching artists who trained directly with Hagen, we will explore the infinite potential of the actor’s practice and apply those same rigorous values to scene work. Required texts for this program include Respect for Acting by Uta Hagen and Acting and Living in Discovery by Carol Rosenfeld.
(The Hagen Teacher’s Lab) changed my teaching and it changed my life. The experience and generosity of the Hagen Teacher’s Lab teachers were extraordinary.
Flori Doyle, Board of Directors, New York State Theatre Education Association
Upon registration, you will be given a daily schedule and guidelines on how to prepare. Rehearsal outside class is required. If you are interested in auditing a session of the Hagen Teacher’s Lab, approved auditors are allowed to observe up to two days with a $45 per day fee.
For more information about applying or auditing The Hagen Teacher’s Lab, please contact us at hageninstitute@hbstudio.org.