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Over the course of the 2025 spring semester, HB Studio and the Noël Coward Foundation have collaborated on a pair of unique classes led by highly-decorated instructors: Testimony: Theater as Witness to Our Times, taught by the Tony Award-winning actor Frank Wood, and American Scoreboard: How Did We Get Here?, with Tony-nominated director Christopher Burney and Tony-winning producer Fran Kirmser. These courses explored the use of courtroom testimony and transcript within the theater and honored the radical critical legacies of both Coward and HB Studio’s founders Herbert Berghof and Uta Hagen.
Tomorrow at 7:00pm on April 22 at HB Playwrights Theatre (124 Bank Street), actors from the Testimony workshop – including Emily Adler, Rachael Attanasio, Kathleen Files, Moshe Henderson, Justin Masters, and Juan Jose Mojica – present examples of their classwork from the term in vivid, electrifying scene work. Limited seats remain, so reserve pay-what-you-wish seats online now or just show up at the door for your best chance at SRO tickets – reserve tickets now.
Workshop Added!
We are preparing to begin the first round of our Spring Term B classes, including the American Scoreboard workshop, where Burney and Kirmser will continue to investigate the transformative possibilities of documentary theater, explore historic transcripts and documents, and uncover the legacy of our nation. Workshops like Witness and American Scoreboard, offer students new pathways to illuminate connections between past and present in their own work – register now.
Series Spotlight
Body Intelligence with Brenna Palughi
Get out of your head and into your body as you learn to fully experience moving with your natural impulses through ensemble, partner, and solo work.
Scene Study – Studio Practice (Online) with Austin Pendleton
Push your boundaries and build more complex characters and situations within a scene with a Tony-nominated actor.
Uta Hagen’s Acting Exercises with Julissa Roman
Hagen’s A Challenge for the Actor and Roman’s incisive instruction help direct the actor to discover and expand their character’s deepest motivations.
Scene Study 1-2 (Online) with Michael Beckett
This combined-level class tools to accelerate and improve your preparation process for rehearsing and presenting scripted material.
Live at HB Studio
Testimony: Theater as Witness to Our Time
Tuesday, April 22 at 7pm
at HB Playwrights Theatre
Pay-What-You-Wish, $30 Recommended
Implicit Memory Systems: A Jungian Farce
Saturday, April 26 at 7pm
at HB Playwrights Theatre
Pay-What-You-Wish, $30 Recommended
Community News
HB Studio News
The great actor and educator Uta Hagen understood that working in the theater is not magic. Acting is a practical, improvable skill that can be taught. The Hagen approach to acting focuses on the repetition of a series of core training lessons that have repeatedly proven to unlock the actor within everyone and to give performers at every level the confidence and knowledge necessary to excel.
HB Studio’s Summer Intensive Program is a rigorous six-week (June through August) bootcamp that applies the Hagen approach to see you become a more complete thespian. Through intense scene study, script analysis, acquisition of Alexander Technique and technical movement, and vocal exercises, Hagen’s “Six Steps” will sit at the center of your mastery of your craft. Amidst a faculty of seasoned practitioners, you’ll be immersed with direct and in-depth methods that will strengthen your instrument and expand your skills. The Intensive meets June through August, Monday to Friday, 40-hours-a-week. At $3600 for three months, HB Studio training costs a fraction of similarly nationally accredited programs.
For artists looking to elevate their talents – or professionals who want to reinvigorate their vocation – the Summer Intensive can provide a joyous jolt to the system and structure to your craft – apply now.
Faculty News
Peter Francis James directs, and Charlotte Bydwell assistant directs, All’s Well That End’s Well at the Old Globe in San Diego from June 8 – July 6.
Mercedes Ruehl directs two HB alums, Michael S. Horowitz and T.M. Rawlins, in Heisenberg at the Chain Theatre from May 1-11.
Daniel Pearce performs as Brabantio in Othello on Broadway (starring Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal) at the Barrymore Theatre through June 8.
Lisa Pelikan performs in Cracked Open at Theatre Row from May 6 – June 28.
Alumni & Student News
Chris Jaymes is a recurring character on Season 5 of Law & Order: Organized Crime, out now on NBC and Peacock.
Wynn McClenahan performs in Doughboys at The Vino Theatre from April 24-30.