HB Studio mourns the loss of Alexander Bernstein, our beloved Board Member Emeritus, who passed on July 22. Alexander was a gem of a human and a dear friend to Herbert, Uta, HB and the entire artistic community of NYC. His willingness to speak up against the current administration’s relentless assault on civil rights up to the very end marked him as an independent thinker. Alexander’s roots ran deep with HB. An HB student himself, his mother, Felicia Montealegre, also studied with Herbert Berghof, and his father, Leonard Bernstein, was an original board member of the HB Playwrights Foundation. He will be deeply missed. We will be updating our website later this week with additional photos and written tributes from those who knew him well.