Events

Earle Hyman Memorial

Please join us Sunday, January 14, at 3pm in the HB Playwrights Theatre for a Memorial for Earle Hyman. Space is limited, please RSVP by January 9 to Sara Kuntz, via email (skuntz@hbstudio.org) or phone (212-989-6540).

PEOPLE WHO MAKE THEATER: Meet the Catalan Artists: Lali Álvarez, Cláudia Cedó, Anna Giribet, Ariadna Peya & Xesca Salvà: Jan 16, 2018

Meet the Catalan Artists 
Copresented by HB Studio and Institut Ramon Llull

Featuring five socially engaged female artists from Catalonia who will be sharing presentations of their work:

Lali Álvarez (playwright, poet, stage director)
Cláudia Cedó (playwright & director)
Anna Giribet (theater artist & programmer)
Ariadna Peya (choreographer, dancer, teacher)
Xesca Salvà (set designer & theater artist)

Presentations will be followed by a Q&A with the audience.

Tuesday, January 16, 2018 | 7pm
HB Playwrights Theatre | 124 Bank Street
Free! | RSVP at hbstudio.eventbrite.com

 

LALI ÁLVAREZ: I work as a playwright, poet, stage director and community-projects developer, having studied philosophy at Universitat de Barcelona and stage directing and playwriting at Institut del Teatre. I often participate in text theatre, street theatre, and in community projects, with my work revolving around social and political issues. I am the current artistic director at the HUI BASA Collective, through which I hold the resident artist position at Nau Ivanow in Barcelona. The collective is now working on Tha Zpar (The Stand Still) a street-theatre show about how we manage fear and violence, which will premiere in September 2018 at FiraTàrrega, and on Privilege, a theatre documentary about the concept of privilege, to premiere in July 2019 at the Barcelona Grec Festival. As a playwright and stage director, I have put on Ragazzo (2015) and Barcelona (against the wall) (2016), both based on true stories, and both on tour. I have been honored with various awards such as the Serra d’Or Critics Award (best show 2015 for Ragazzo) and the Recomana Critics Award (best show for young audience 2016 for Ragazzo).
www.lalialvarezgarriga.com

 

CLÀUDIA CEDÓ: I am a playwright and theatre director, having studied psychology and dramatic art and worked as a psychologist in prison and in a center for people with autism. Ten years ago, I decided to leave my job at the jail to start a project called Escenaris Especials (Special Stages). Now this project is a reality: we do theater with actors and actresses with disabilities, mental illness, autism, cerebral palsy, or drug addiction. Special Stages has been my university, the place where I have learned to write and direct theater. My students have taught me how to train my creativity by going to places where I would not have gone alone, writing at a table. My years in Special Stages have clearly influenced what I write, whether in terms of content or in the form of my theatrical works. In 2014, I started to write for professional companies. I have written 12 theater plays and have always directed them myself. I have also worked as a theater teacher with adolescent students and as a playwright, director, and actress for theater companies. Likewise, I worked as an actress with the Dokumentar Theater of Berlin.
www.claudiacedo.com

 

ANNA GIRIBET: I have a degree in economics and have worked as an economist for four years. In parallel, culture has always played a very important role in my life. Since 2008, I have been part of the artistic and production team for the theater company Dimitri Ialta. Since 2011, I work as the assistant programmer for the FiraTàrrega artistic department, a market for performing arts focused on street arts and unconventional shows. I also coordinate the Graduate Diploma in Arts Street Creation. Prior, I participated in the meetings Women and culture based in Barcelona: Women and Culture is a group of women who want to achieve gender equality in the world of culture and which encompasses women from different fields (theater, circus, music, film, visual arts, cultural management, and cultural communication, among others).

 

ARIADNA PEYA: I am a choreographer, dancer, teacher, and a founding member of the company Les Impuxibles. Trained in dance in Barcelona, I have taken courses with international choreographers in New York, London, Israel, Berlin, and Cuba. I enjoy different disciplines of dance and movement, which have led me to create my own language. In 2011, I founded Les Impuxibles with my sister, Clara Peya. Les Impuxibles is the artistic fusion of a pianist and a dancer—a merger that contains the power and the artistic quality of each of us separately and the harmony of the bond that unites us. We work with a mixture of languages. Our research combines music and movement with other scenic disciplines: an investigation that is never over and has led us to build our own language. Thus, we continue to focus on cooperation and alliances between creators and universes, discovering new forms of creation and furthering our work. To date, Les Impuxibles has premiered seven shows. The last one, Aüc, el so de les esquerdes, premiered at the Barcelona Grec Festival (2017), La Seca Espai Brossa, Fira Tàrrega, (currently on tour) is a joint project with the creator Carla Rovira. Les Impuxibles are currently preparing “Suite toc num 6”, which will be released in Barcelona in 2019 and staged by Judit Pujol. Our social commitment has led us to use our art as a loudspeaker for social change, positioning ourselves in a policy of equality.
http://lesimpuxibles.com/wp/

 

XESCA SALVÀ: I work as a set designer and graduated from the Institut del Teatre in Barcelona. From 2010 to 2011, I worked at Plastikart Studio (Cesena, Italy) creating and developing several projects for Societas Raffaello Sanzio-Romeo Castellucci. I am also the set designer for theater and dance companies such as La Veronal, Lali Ayguadé, Corcada Teatre, Andrés Lima and La Ruta 40. Currently, I am working on a personal project about intimacy, games, and memory: The Houses Project. With three small-scale and autonomous shows, a mixture of real voices and fictional experience becomes an intimate movie with the audience playing an active part. The project is a reflection on memory: the memory of objects and the memory of real space as an aural construction. It is also an attempt to create emotional spaces on “social interstices,” or spaces for intimate exchanges. Every experience is accompanied by the real sound of chatting and interviews with the real voices of several women: older women living alone at home, homeless women and prostitutes. I also developed a project in residence at IF Barcelona and Hangar (2016-2017) and premiered a play in TNT Terrassa and Teatre Principal de Palma.
http://projectecases.tumblr.com

 

About INSTITUT RAMON LLULL:

Institut Ramon Llull is a public consortium comprised of the Catalan Government, the Balearic Islands Government, and the City Council of Barcelona. The institute was established in 2002 with the aim of promoting Catalan language and culture abroad. Institut Ramon Lull’s work focuses on Catalan literary and scholarly works; Catalan studies in academic settings; and visual arts, architecture, design, performing arts, music, and film.
The Performing and Visual Arts Department gives wide exposure to Catalan culture through artistic events in cities around the world, promoting the presence of Catalan artists at first-rate international events featuring contemporary art and performance through specific cooperation agreements with international festivals, institutions, museums, and arts centers as well as through travel grants for artists.
www.llull.cat

First Floor Studio Residency – [50/50] old school animation

[50/50] old school animation 
A First Floor Studio Residency Project

By momgrab

8pm | Saturday July 29
FREE – Click to RSVP

A work-in-progress showing from momgrab (Peter Mills Weiss and Julia Mounsey). A presentation on misogyny, cruelty, and agency, [50/50] old school animation is an unnerving exploration of what it means to feel in control.

Peter Mills Weiss is a monologuist, theater artist, and founding member of GRANDMA. His work has been seen at Little Theatre at Dixon Place, CATCH Performance Series, and PS122’s COIL Festival. MAKE PEOPLE, his last show with GRANDMA, was presented as part of LaMaMa’s 2015 -16 season. He has performed with or for artists such as New Saloon, 600 Highwaymen, and Clare Barron. Recent sound design credits include Julia Jarcho’s Every Angel is Brutal at Clubbed Thumb’s Summerworks.

Julia Mounsey is a poet and performance artist. Her poetry has been published in The Silo, Bodega, and The Washington Square Review. Her performance work has been seen at the Silent Barn, New Skin//Old Ceremony at Cloud City, Little Theatre at Dixon Place, and The Cocoon Theater in Poughkeepsie. Julia was an assistant director & dramaturge on Young Jean Lee’s Straight White Men, and is a member of GRANDMA.

HB Studio Presents UNITL THE FLOOD by Dael Orlandersmith

MONDAY, MARCH 20

TUESDAY, MARCH 21

HB PLAYWRIGHTS THEATRE

– 7:00 PM–

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

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Reading Partners – Information Session

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Join us at HB Studio for wine and light refreshments as you learn about volunteering with Reading Partners!

Reading Partners empowers students to succeed in reading and in life by connecting passionate community volunteers to provide one-on-one literacy tutoring. In New York, 8 out 10 fourth graders from low-income families cannot read at grade level. The program delivers a highly effective curriculum that has helped tens of thousands of children master reading comprehension, fluency, and sight-word reading. Reading Partners is currently present in 17 elementary schools throughout New York City, serving 920 students! Find out how you can support the organization as a tutor or otherwise on Friday, May 20th from 4-6pm!

More information on Reading Partners: http://readingpartners.org/

Friday | September 23 | 4-6 pm | FREE! – RSVP Online here!
HB Studio, Speech Room, 3rd Floor | 120 Bank Street

First Floor Studio Residency – THE GOD OF ALL THINGS

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THE GOD OF ALL THINGS
by Lyle Kessler
directed by Francisco Solorzano

Featuring: Peter Collier, Joe Maruzzo, Stuart Rudin, Jimi Stanton, Christina Toth, Christopher Whalen

Coyotes, gangsters, a Stripper, and two brothers struggle in a shack in the desert outside Los Vegas.  An Apocalyptic black comedy of life, death and redemption.  

From the acclaimed writer of Orphans, last seen on Broadway with Alec Baldwin and Ben Foster.  Talk-back afterwards with the cast and crew to discuss process of ensemble collaboration in order to bring a new play in front of an audience.

Produced by Barefoot Theatre Company

Saturday & Sunday | July 9 & 10 | 8pm | FREE!
HB Studio, First Floor Studio | 120 Bank Street
RSVP Online!

First Floor Studio Residency – THE GOD OF ALL THINGS

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THE GOD OF ALL THINGS
by Lyle Kessler
directed by Francisco Solorzano

Featuring: Peter Collier, Joe Maruzzo, Stuart Rudin, Jimi Stanton, Christina Toth, Christopher Whalen

Coyotes, gangsters, a Stripper, and two brothers struggle in a shack in the desert outside Los Vegas.  An Apocalyptic black comedy of life, death and redemption.  

From the acclaimed writer of Orphans, last seen on Broadway with Alec Baldwin and Ben Foster.  Talk-back afterwards with the cast and crew to discuss process of ensemble collaboration in order to bring a new play in front of an audience.

Produced by Barefoot Theatre Company

Saturday & Sunday | July 9 & 10 | 8pm | FREE!
HB Studio, First Floor Studio | 120 Bank Street

People Who Make Theater: MEET THE 2016 HB STUDIO RESIDENT ARTISTS!

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MEET THE 2016 HB STUDIO RESIDENT ARTISTS

Monday, June 20 | 7:30pm
HB Playwrights Theatre, 124 Bank St.
$5-10 suggested donation
RSVP at hbstudio.eventbrite.com

A conversation with the recipients of HB’s First Floor Studio Residency opportunity:

Amie Hartman, Barbara Cassidy & Sarah Buff: Diorama
Elizabeth Maille & Jue Yang: Nexus
Barefoot Theatre Company (Francisco Solorzano): The God of All Things
The Greenhouse Ensemble (Reanna Armellino & Hazen Cuyler): A Painted Window
Title:Point (Theresa Buchheister): The Chroma Key
Allison Plamondon: The Tchaikovsky Vignettes

Moderated by Catrin Lloyd-Bollard

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. Join us to meet the 2016 HB Residents and hear about their projects and creative practices.

This program is made possible through the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

Become A Reading Partners Tutor

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Join us at HB Studio for wine and light refreshments as you learn about volunteering with Reading Partners!

Reading Partners empowers students to succeed in reading and in life by connecting passionate community volunteers to provide one-on-one literacy tutoring. In New York, 8 out 10 fourth graders from low-income families cannot read at grade level. The program delivers a highly effective curriculum that has helped tens of thousands of children master reading comprehension, fluency, and sight-word reading. Reading Partners is currently present in 17 elementary schools throughout New York City, serving 920 students! Find out how you can support the organization as a tutor or otherwise on Friday, May 20th from 4-6pm!

Click here for an Informational Flyer or visit: http://readingpartners.org/

Friday | May 20 | 4-6 pm | FREE! | RSVP Here!
HB Studio, First Floor Studio | 120 Bank Street

People Who Make Theater: The Lark – A Play Development Center

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A Conversation with Andrea Hiebler of The Lark

Moderated by Ed Napier

Monday, May 2 | 7:30pm
HB Playwrights Theatre | 124 Bank Street
$10 suggested donation | $5 HB students/staff
RSVP ONLINE HERE

The Lark is an international theater laboratory, based in New York City, dedicated to empowering playwrights by providing transformative support within a global community.  Founded in 1994, The Lark provides writers with funding, space, collaborators, audiences, professional connections, and the freedom to design their own processes of exploration. The guiding principal of The Lark’s work is the belief that playwrights are society’s truth tellers, and their work strengthens our collective capacity to understand our world and imagine its future.

For more information about the artists, initiatives and plays of The Lark, please visit: www.larktheatre.org.

Andrea Hiebler is currently the Director of Scouting and Submissions at the Lark. Andrea first joined the Lark as an intern back in the summer of 2006. A New York native, she graduated from The College of Wooster in Ohio with a B.A. in Theatre and English. Her internships at St. Ann’s Warehouse and The Araca Group led directly to the Lark, where she served as Literary Associate for Playwrights’ Week before becoming a full-time member of the artistic team in 2009. Andrea now manages multiple submission and fellowship selection processes, program goal setting and assessments as well as writer scouting and tracking. She also serves as a facilitator for a variety of Lark programs and writers’ groups. Andrea has participated as a script reader for Sundance and The Ruby Prize and hosted a series of affinity sessions on Dramaturgy/New Play Development at the national TCG conference. Away from the theatre, you can find her listening to classic rock or rooting for her favorite New York sports teams at a local bar.

Ed Napier (Moderator): Originally from Kenova, West Virginia. Ed’s first play, JUNIOR PROM, was directed by the late Herbert Berghof, at the HB Playwrights’ Foundation in New York. Other productions include, THE ENGLISH TEACHERS, directed by Robert Lupone at MCC and ‘TIL THE RAPTURE COMES, directed by Pamela Berlin, at the WPA. He’s had his work performed at other NY theatres like EST, Theatre Nada, the Westbank Cafe’, the Blue Heron, The Amateur Comedy Club, Trocadero, and the Workhouse Theatre where he was playwright-in-residence as well as others. He was on the writing staff of “Criminal Minds” for two seasons and sold a pilot to NBC. In LA, his work has been performed at Antaeus, Rogue Machine, and Skylight. His artistic affiliations have included, the Playwrights’ Coalition at MCC, the Playwrights’ Unit at HB Studio, a Core Artist at the Lark Theatre, a member of the Playwrights and Directors Unit at the Actors’ Studio, and a member of the Half Moon Theatre Company in Dutchess County, NY, where he founded the literary department and served as its literary manager; he’s also an Artistic Affiliate at the Antaeus Theatre Company in LA where he started the Playwrights Lab and served as its moderator. His work has been published by Dramatist Play Service, Smith and Kraus, and Applause Theatre Books. He received a Berrilla Kerr Award for Playwriting, was a Columbia Senior Writing Fellow, a Juilliard Playwright Fellow, and a Playwriting Fellow at the Lark. He was an artist teacher in the New York City Public Schools, taught in the Columbia University High School Program, H.B. Studio, and was an adjunct professor of creative writing at NYU. Ed is also a tenor and studied at Juilliard with Vincent La Selva, Corradina Capporello, and Donna Gill – and also privately with Russell Christopher(Met), Jane Olian(MSM), and Lynn Owen(CU). He has sung in choirs since childhood and presently sings with the choir at All Saints’ Episcopal Church in Beverly Hills. Professionally, he has performed at Steinway Hall in NY in an ArtsAhimsa Concert, and has appeared several times at the Bohemian National Hall through the Dvorak National Heritage Association – also in NY. As a young man, he studied acting for a number of years with Herbert Berghof, Sandy Dennis, Carol Rosenfeld, and Yevgeny Lanskoy. Ed lives in Los Angeles with his lovely wife, Alexandra, and amazing daughter, Delilah. He is a graduate of Columbia University (GS, ’95) and was the recipient of the Writing Program Award (the Literature/ Writing departmental prize) for his graduating class. He is represented by Peregrine Whittelsey.

 

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