A presentation in honor of the Russian novelist and poet Ivan Bunin’s 150th birthday. Join us for an evening dedicated to Ivan Bunin poetry, short stories and songs featuring presentations from HB Studio students. Presented in Russian and in English.
Evening classes on Friday March 13 and ALL classes this weekend, Saturday March 14 and Sunday March 15 are cancelled, so that we may do our part to support containment of the COVID-19 virus.
Make-up classes for this weekend will be scheduled at a later date.
Additionally, given the rapidly developing news, like other organizations, we are closing down for the next two weeks as well. A more detailed update will follow about postponement of Spring classes.
Classes cancelled this weekend are:
3/13/2020 Michael Beckett: Scene Study 2
3/13/2020 Magaly Colimon: Acting with the Camera 1
3/13/2020 Julissa Roman: Acting 1
3/13/2020 Mercedes Ruehl: Scene Study- Studio Practice (Invitational)
3/14/2020 Michael Beckett: Acting 1
3/14/2020 Michael Beckett: Acting 2
3/14/2020 Snezhana Chernova: Acting in Russian: Method of Etudes
3/14/2020 David Deblinger: Acting 2
3/14/2020 Craig Dolezel: Speech 1
3/14/2020 Marlene Mancini: Acting for Teens: Ages 14-17
3/14/2020 Theresa McElwee: Speaking Voice 1
3/14/2020 Ben Mehl Mehl: Movement for Actors
3/14/2020 Lisa Pelikan: Acting with the Camera 3: Skill Integration for Film
3/14/2020 Claudia Terry: Acting for Young People: Ages 9-13
3/15/2020 Michael Beckett: Scene Study – Studio Practice
3/15/2020 Michael Beckett: Scene Study 2
3/15/2020 Michael Beckett: Scene Study 3
3/15/2020 Snezhana Chernova: Scene Study 2-3 with Hagen Exercises
3/15/2020 Laura Esterman: Scene Study – Studio Practice
3/15/2020 Stefanie Proessl: Alexander Technique
3/15/2020 Trudy Steibl: Acting 1
3/15/2020 The Hagen Teen Intensive
Following one of the most significant elections in American history, a panel of HB artists from the U.S. and abroad, including faculty, students and alumni, join together to discuss voting and the democratic process, and what it means to have a political voice as an artist.
Amid one of the most significant elections in American history, an international panel of artists discuss the boundaries and intersections between a creative, civic, and political life.
With Snezhana Chernova, Magaly Colimon-Christopher, John-Martin Green, Leyla Hadi, Peter Francis James, Abhishek Jha, Juan Ramirez, Jr., Lorraine de Silva and and Nya Yeanafehn
Sunday, November 1 at 7:30pm Held online over Zoom
We introduce HB Studio’s residency artists to learn about their works-in-progress and their ever-developing artistic careers.
Artists include Ashley Teague and Gwen Kingston – Untitled Whale Project; Jacqueline Raymond – Int’l Girl’s Ensemble; Kayhan Irani – There is a Portal; Blair Simmons – Print(Dialogue); Hyojin Park – MFA; and Morgan Smith – Averno.
Sunday, October 4 at 12:00pm Held online over Zoom
A presentation of curated life histories from HB Studio’s The Performing Arts Legacy Project (PAL) workshop cohort in partnership with The Actors Fund Research Center for Arts & Culture
PAL is an initiative of the Research Center for Arts and Culture at The Actors Fund. PAL celebrates the contributions of older actors by supporting them to document their own careers in an online platform that serves as a shared theater history and educational resource.
Monday, March 9 at 7pm HB Playwrights Theatre | 124 Bank Street, New York
THERE IS A PORTAL is a multimedia, one-woman performance that uses storytelling and participatory theater to create a space for dialogue among theater goers.
Sunday, December 20 | 12:00 PM & 6:00 PM Held online over Zoom
INSIDE OUT is comprised of eleven compelling scenes interlaced with letters to home and spoken word poetry. Written by incarcerated men and performed by formerly incarcerated actors.
A presentation of virtual performances from the participants of HB Studio’s ACTS OF LOVE ensemble. Using story, movement, music and comedy, a group of international artists explore love and passions in their waking and dream lives.Directed by David Deblinger
Friday, November 20, 2020 | 7:00 PM Saturday, November 21, 2020 | 9:00 PM
A presentation in honor of the Russian novelist and poet Ivan Bunin’s 150th birthday. An evening dedicated to Ivan Bunin poetry, short stories and songs featuring presentations from HB Studio students.
Presented in Russian and in English.Directed by Snezhana ChernovaFeaturing Marina Bondik, Ekaterina Gerasimova, Christine Elmo, Anna Kaliuzhnaia, Florian Kiniffo, Lyubov Orlovsky, Timo Palonen, Alisa Rusanoff, Olga Sopian, and Inna Zozulya
Sunday, October 11, 2020 | 2:00 PM
Held online over Zoom
Conch Shell Productions and HB Studio co-produced a series new comedic one-act plays written by Caribbean American writers.The plays include I MARRIED A BLACK REPUBLICAN, written by Magaly Colimon-Christopher; THE CUSTOMER VOTING SERVICE, written by Juan Ramirez, Jr; THE ARITHMETIC OF MEMORY, written by Gretchen Suarez-Pena; and I SAW JESUS IN TOA BAJA, by Nelson Diaz-Marcano.
Friday, October 9, 2020 | 9:00 PM Friday, October 16, 2020 | 9:00 PM Friday, October 23, 2020 | 9:00 PM
Friday, October 30, 2020 | 9:00 PM
Moderated by Artistic directors Edith Meeks and Literary Manager Sergei Burbank featured #BLUELIGHTSERIES playwrights Magaly Colimon-Christopher, Nelson Diaz Marcan, Juan Ramirez Jr., and Gretchen Suarez-Pena chat about the function of comedy during challenging times.
We share the fruits of Paul Pryce’s Summer Performance Lab. Participating actors have interviewed several individuals out on the frontlines of this double pandemic. The actors have been tasked to perform a story that resonates with them and which sheds light on their personal experience with the coronavirus or the protests for racial injustice and equality.
Friday, August 21, 2020, 7:00 pm Saturday, August 22, 2020, 7:00 pm
An afternoon of trenchant and terse monologues performed by the members of ACTING OUT, a professional acting class for formerly incarcerated men, lead by Richard Hoehler. Featuring work by Clifford Odets, John Patrick Shanley, Tennessee Williams, August Wilson, Robert Anderson, and others.
Sunday July 26, 2020, 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm Sunday August 9, 2020, 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm Sunday August 23, 2020, 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm
Composer/performer/sound artist/actor Joan La Barbara offers a preview to the workshop she will be teaching for actors at HB on extended vocal techniques.
Included in the mini-concert – “Solitary Journeys of the Mind”, her real-time composition/improv featuring a range of vocalizations and she will talk about creating character voices (the “Alien Newborn” in “Alien Resurrection”, and the “Angel Voice” in “Date with an Angel”) and how one goes about analyzing what sound a creature could make based the structure of its head, neck and body.
The year is 1994 and Zack Lawson, a 63-year-old African American military veteran, works at Primary Video, a VHS movie rental store in Las Vegas, NV. When Zack finds out a secret about Ian, his 25-year-old white supervisor, he uses it to his advantage, ultimately bringing both men to painful realizations.
STEWART AND LAMB is part of Coming Apart Together: A Visit with Our 2020 Residency and Reading Series Artists
In the early 1970s, a rebellious American teen suspended from boarding school for breaking into a synagogue is sent to stay with her grandmother, an elderly German-Jewish Holocaust refugee.
THE SOUND OF BIRDS YOU DON’T EXPECT is part of Coming Apart Together: A Visit with Our 2020 Residency and Reading Series Artists
A closeted dyslexic writer and his new no-nonsense editor whose son was recently diagnosed with dyslexia: the story of two polar opposites who need each other.
MISSING WORDS is part of Coming Apart Together: A Visit with Our 2020 Residency and Reading Series Artists
Every month, college friends Mac, Audrey, Lia, and Sarah meet for Book Club to talk about literature (their lives), favorite authors (each other), and to analyze plot and character (to drink). A play about the closeness and danger of intimate female friendships.
WHY WE HAVE BOOK CLUB is part of Coming Apart Together: A Visit with Our 2020 Residency and Reading Series Artists
Over a 15-hour workday in mid-October 1968, a handful of GI’s on Kitchen Police (KP) at a small Army fort wrestle with daily life in the Army, while the escalating Vietnam War is on everyone’s mind.
KP 1968 is part of Coming Apart Together: A Visit with Our 2020 Residency and Reading Series Artists
The current HB Performance Lab will engage a group of primarily international current and former students to build a virtual ensemble committed to creating and eventually recording a variety of short digital segments loosely inspired by the theme, “Acts of Love.” The segment categories will include: stories/moments of remembered experience, music/song, movement/dance, comedy (sketch, stand-up, character, puppet-show, etc.). Footage will eventually be selected, edited and framed by an animated narrative, yet to be created.
The long term goal is to create three webisodes and a template for a series.
An afternoon of trenchant and terse monologues performed by the members of ACTING OUT, a professional acting class for formerly incarcerated men, lead by Richard Hoehler. Featuring work by Clifford Odets, John Patrick Shanley, Tennessee Williams, August Wilson, Robert Anderson, and others.
Sunday, May 31, June 7 & 14 at 12:30pm
Sunday June 28, 2020, 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm
Sunday July 12, 2020, 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm
Directed by Larry Rosen of “The Moth”, we present an HB Studio storytelling evening inspired by shows like “The Moth,” “RISK,” and “The Story Collider”.
Performance of Testimony from the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Reform Hearing on The Need for Leadership to Combat Climate Change and Protect National Security
A comedy in 2 acts by Konstantin Simonov, translation by Thelma Schnee.
The play that introduced Herbert Berghof and Uta Hagen.
Directed by Irina Abraham, and featuringGeorge Bartieneff, Michel Chahade, Snezhana Chernova, Satoshi Deleanu, Dylan Frankel, Julissa Roman, Paige Russo, Charles Sprinkle, Kenneth Thompson, Danusia Trevino, and Jim Zukowski.
A collaborative Staged Reading of selected first scenes and one acts from the students of Playwright Julie McKee, directed by the students of Director Pat Golden
New Zealand, 1941, under threat of a Japanese invasion Louise MacGregor, formidable scientist, and Mae Smith, untried youngster, are sent on a mission in search of Pterocladia Lucida, a simple seaweed to aid the war effort.
February 2, 7, 8, 9, 11, 14, 15, 16, 7:30 pm | February 3 & 10, 3 pm Funded in part by The Ensemble Studio Theatre / Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Science & Technology Project
This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
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International students have different options for participating in classes at HB Studio. While many choose to design their own program from the variety of classes taught at the Studio, others prefer the intensive, full-time training programs that the Uta Hagen Institute has to offer. All programs at HB Studio require international students to obtain an F-1 visa to participate. Our International Student Advisors assist students with this process.
International Studio Class Program
The Studio offers an International Studio Class Program that can be shaped to achieve the individual’s goals. The full-time program requires students to attend a minimum of seven Studio classes per week, consisting of a mix of required and elective classes. Mandatory classes include:
Upon assessment, students who are not native English speakers may also be advised to take Acting in English in order to ensure adequate language support. They may also be required to supplement their Studio program with outside English as a Second Language (ESL) courses. Students may begin studying at the Studio in the Fall, Winter, Spring or Summer terms. The International Studio Class Program allows students to study for a maximum of two years and minimum of one term (10 weeks). Please see F-1 Visas & Program Policies for more information and a breakdown of tuition and fees. After completing two years in the International Studio Class Program, students may choose to participate in Optional Practical Training (OPT), where students may receive up to 12 months of authorization to pursue employment directly related to their field of study. The International Studio Class Program requires an application and audition for admission. For more information, contact our International Student Advisor Snezhana Chernova at international@hbstudio.org or 212-675-2370 extension 28.
Hagen Core Training
The Uta Hagen Institute at HB Studio offers full-time immersion in the practical approach to acting craft that characterized Uta Hagen’s legendary master classes and classic acting texts. Its Hagen Core Training is an intensive one-year training program taught by world-class faculty/practitioners. This program offers an integrated progressive curriculum of essential classes: Acting Technique, Scene Study, Script Analysis, Movement, Alexander Technique, Voice and Speech.
The Hagen Core Training is a three-term program (Fall, Winter, Spring) that requires an application, audition and interview for admission. For more information, visit Hagen Core Training or contact Uta Hagen Institute Administrator Jim Boerlin at jboerlin@hbstudio.org or 212-675-2370 extension 38.
Hagen Summer Intensive
The Hagen Summer Intensive is a rigorous, six-week workshop with the Uta Hagen Institute that probes the practical applications of Uta Hagen’s technique as discussed in her book A CHALLENGE FOR THE ACTOR. Through acting technique, scene study, script analysis, and technical exercises, “The Six Steps” will become an integral part of the actor’s craft. When you have strong technique and more confidence in how to find yourself in the role, acting will be joyful. Classes include: Acting Technique, Scene Study, Alexander Technique, Movement and Voice. The Hagen Summer Intensive program requires an application and online audition for admission. For more information, visit Hagen Summer Intensive or contact Uta Hagen Institute Administrator Jim Boerlin at jboerlin@hbstudio.org or 212-675-2370 extension 38.
Options for Short-Term Students
International students wishing to study at HB Studio for a shorter amount of time under an F-1 visa may apply for a minimum of one term (10 weeks). Students would be required to attend a minimum of seven Studio classes per week, consisting of a mix of required and elective classes. Please see the course breakdown under the International Studio Class Program above. We also welcome international visitors spending a shorter amount of time in the U.S. to audit classes at HB Studio. Auditing provides a great introduction to the wide variety of classes that the Studio has to offer. It can also help prospective international students to decide if they want to apply for a full-time program in the future. One audit is allowed per class and there is a $20.00 fee. You must come in person to the Studio office on the day of the class you wish to audit and arrive at least 30 minutes before class begins. FOR MORE INFORMATION Please contact International Student Advisors Snezhana Chernova at international@hbstudio.org or 212-675-2370 extension 28 with any questions you may have about the programs available for international students at HB Studio.
