Celebrate end-of-term with HB friends, faculty and staff, hanging out in the HB Playwrights Theater and garden on a warm summer night. Enjoy free food, cash bar, and LIVE MUSIC with
ONE, TWO AND THEN THREE 
A First Floor Studio Residency Project
By Eleanor Herman
Directed by Arthur French
5:30 pm | Saturday August 5, 12, 19, & 26
6:30 pm | Sunday August 6, 13, 20, & 27
A young man deals with important events that have affected his life in the past and now have become a destructive influence in the present.
Cast: Sean C. Turner, Donna Svennevik, Maurice Singletary, Malinda Logan, Vickie Thomas, Cooki Winborn, and Christina L. Williams
Stage Manager: Sirlouis A. Jones
Production Assistants: Andrew Tsai & Camilo Ramirez
Costumer: Katherine Roberson
THE AUDIT 
by Lynda Crawford
Directed by Arthur French
Featuring: Sally A Stewart* and David Logan Rankin*
With music by Jon Pierson
June 22, 23, 24 & June 29, 30, July 1, 2017 | 7pm
HB Playwrights Theatre, 124 Bank Street
FREE – RSVP Online
A tax audit reveals a lot more than flawed accounting when the auditor is a returning female vet and her subject is a frequently high and highly disorganized aging hippie songwriter.
*These Actors are appearing courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association, Equity approved Showcase.
A conversation with the recipients of HB’s First Floor Studio Residency opportunity:
Liliya Lifanova & Hiroya Miura: Flight Over Wasteland
Ingrid Wheatley: Passing Thru
Julia Mounsey & Peter Mills Weiss: momgrab
Eleanor Herman & Arthur French: One Two and Then Three
Melody Erfani: Bee
Moderated by Catrin Lloyd-Bollard
Tuesday, May 30 | 7:30pm
HB Playwrights Theatre, 124 Bank St.
$5-10 suggested donation
ABOUT THE PROJECTS
An artist’s adaptation of T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land with handcrafted language, visuals, sound and movement; a collaboratively written series exploring characters in transient spaces; a monologic investigation of sadism and girlhood; a story of an inter-racial couple in 1975 Hawaii and their 25 year old secret; and a devised piece based on interviews conducted in the Middle East about a young woman in 1940s Iran…
Join us to learn about these projects, selected for a 2017 HB Residency, and the artists that make them.
ABOUT THE HB FIRST FLOOR STUDIO RESIDENCY
At intervals throughout the year, HB Studio makes workshop performance space available in our First Floor Studio, for the development of creative projects that further the training and artistic practices fostered at HB. We offer an opportunity for practicing theater artists to collaborate on experimental projects, to be shared among peers and colleagues, for constructive critical feedback and mutual growth.
PASSING THRU 
A First Floor Studio Residency Project
By Enraged Scribbler’s Society
7:30pm | Saturdays & Sundays: May 6/7*, 13/14, 20/21*, 27/28
FREE | RSVP
*open rehearsals
“Passing Thru” is the exploration of characters that the writers of the Enraged Scribbler’s Society have been exploring for some time. The characters in “Passing Thru” are placed in two different settings throughout the four weekends. The settings are public spaces that are not necessarily the final destination for any of the characters, but places they need to go through to get to their destination. It is an exploration of these characters and their conflicts, and of the idea of “privacy in public places.” People come in and out of these settings and different characters from different stories will be sharing the same space, such as on a train platform or hotel lobby. The project also explores the idea of creating a series. The situations for all these characters will change and evolve over the four weekends. Audience members are invited to return to see what will happen to these characters the following weekend, or simply watch a single performance.
Writers include:
CT Marie
Ingrid Wheatley
Craig McNulty
Karen Zechowy
Erik Wdowiak
Frank Delessio
Jess Stark
David Deblinger
With lighting by:
Eduardo Nava
SPRING READS 
New Plays in Process from the HB Playwrights
April 4 – 9, 2017
May 9 – 14, 2017
All readings at 8pm
HB Playwrights Theatre, 124 Bank Street
FREE
Tues 4/4 Craig McNulty – NIGHT VISION
Wed 4/5 Natalie Bates – FOR ALL
Thur 4/6 Lynda Crawford – THE AUDIT
Fri 4/7 Stanley Hathaway – MARCH 9, 1965
Sat 4/8 Susan Eve Haar – SAUGERTIES
Sun 4/9 Daniel O’Donnell – TIME TO GO
Tues 5/9 Jason Jung – PANIC
Wed 5/10 Andrew Heinze – GREAT ROLES FOR OLD ACTRESSES
Thur 5/11 Randy McHaney – FABRICATIONS
Fri 5/12 Adam Delia – SWIPE
Sat 5/13 Sarah Rose Kearns – PERSUASION
Sun 5/14 Robert King – OUR SON
Flight Over Wasteland 
First Floor Studio Residency
Saturday, March 11 5:30 pm
Sunday, March 19 7:30 pm
RSVP here!
Director: Liliya Lifanova in collaboration with composer Hiroya Miura
Cast: Mickaela Tombrock, Christopher Pio, Bradley Carter, Oliver James Burke, Sandra Herlog, Andrea Davina Clinton, Corrine Paulson, Chang Liu, Tatiana Galliher Jackson, Carlos E. Rojas, Shinno Seto, Tom Cryan, Andrew Braddock
“Flight Over Wasteland” is a work in progress toward a live performance and film by visual artist and director Liliya Lifanova in collaboration with composer Hiroya Miura. This duo comes together to create an adaptation of T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land,” reimagined and retold in a series of evocative tableaux vivants, choreographed gestures, and language, set amidst a hand crafted sculptural and sound installation.
Pulitzer Prize finalist and Obie-Award winning playwright Dael Orlandersmith brings her latest work to HB Studio for an exclusive New York engagement. Focused on the social unrest in Ferguson, MO after the shooting of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown, the one-woman show explores the experience of an American community through the eyes of multiple characters, developed by Dael through her extensive interviews with St. Louis residents. Commissioned by The Rep in 2016, and featuring music by Elliott Sharp, we hope you can join us for this very special benefit presentation. Benefit proceeds support HB’s world-renowned training, practice, and development programs for aspiring and professional theater artists.
“There is a tough and necessary beauty in {her} writing…Orlandersmith hears the human need for dignity and justice, for love. She is critic, witness, and poet.”– Tony Kushner, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angels in America.
Sharp is “a composer and guitarist who has been one of downtown’s most influential and prolific musicians…” – The New York Times
PEOPLE WHO MAKE THEATER:
a conversation with actor
Vincent Pastore (THE SOPRANOS)
Moderated by David Deblinger
Wednesday, March 8 | 7:30pm
HB Playwrights Theatre, 124 Bank Street
$5-$10 suggested donation | RSVP at hbstudio.eventbrite.com
Vincent Pastore‘s breakout role in the HBO award winning series THE SOPRANOS lead him from his early days of performing in community theater, running discos and owning rock and roll bars in New Rochelle, NY to becoming the household name of “Big Pussy.” He was encouraged to pursue film acting by Kevin and Matt Dillon who frequented his bars in the 80’s.
Vincent landed his first major film with Nancy Savoca’s award winning film TRUE LOVE, and then he was on his way. He worked on AMERICA’S MOST WANTED, LAW AND ORDER, ONE LIFE TO LIVE, GOOD FELLAS, AWAKENINGS and REGARDING HENRY, plus many other projects on the small stage in New York City, until he landed his first major role as Tony Scarboni opposite Alan Arkin in THE JERKY BOYS. After that, GOTTI, WITNESS TO THE MOB, and then THE SOPRANOS followed. He went on to do the films MADE, SERVING SARA, THE HURRICANE and TWO FAMILY HOUSE, to name just a few.
For generations, the HB community has been a source of inspiration and connection for the many thousands of talented souls that have come through our doors in the heart of Greenwich Village. Over the past 10 years, HB Studio has hosted an annual benefit to celebrate our theater community and honor esteemed alumni, colleagues and dear friends. This year HB Studio is bringing it all back home, and bringing it back to the process of making theater.
Instead of one big benefit bash this year, throughout the 2016-2017 season, HB will be hosting small benefit performance events in our theater at 124 Bank Street. First up this season is: Continue reading →