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Sharp Financial Planning Workshops
Martin's Shakespeare Jumpstart I & II
HB Welcomes Back Donna McKechnie
Performances: Two by Tennessee Williams
Performances: VALPARAISO
F-1 Summer Plans
Items for the Taking
Faculty News
Summer Faculty Roster!
Spring 2008, Week 9   May 29 - June 4, 2008
Dear HB Friends and Family,

Summer registration has begun!
Summer term runs June 26 through August 27.

Summer Class information is posted online!
Brochures are available in the 3rd Floor Office.
A list of special summer workshops is posted on our site.

Spring Classes run through June 25.
Registration is ongoing.
Auditors are welcome; audit classes now for Summer.
Free Workshop this Weekend!
Financial Planning for Performers
with David Sharp
Co-hosted by the New York Coalition of Professional Women in the Arts and Media. HB Students welcome!

Saturday, June 7th
2:30 to 4:30 pm
Free of charge

To register, call 212.675.2370 or stop by the 3rd floor office

Dancer/choreographer/finance whiz David Sharp returns with a free workshop on Financial Planning for Performers. How to save, invest, and build financial security on a limited and changeable income.

Open to newcomers as well as those who have attended David's previous workshops, the May 31st session will explore the ins and outs of mutual funds. Come join us and take charge of your financial future!

David will be holding additional follow-up workshops throughout the year to check in on your financial progress, review the basics, and then focus in on different topics-- mark your calendars!

September 6: Government-issued bonds
December 6: Buying individual stocks
Special Workshops!
SHAKESPEARE JUMPSTART RETURNS
with Christopher Martin
Jumpstart I
Two Sundays, June 1 and 8
Class Fee $42

Jumpstart II
Two Sundays, June 15 and 22
Class Fee $42

Playing Shakespeare is ultimately the same as playing any role in contemporary drama--truth. But how does the actor come to terms with a truth based in another time, another place, another language, and still be at peace with his sense of truth?

A hands-on workshop covering the nuts and bolts an actor needs to attack the plays with confidence, eliminating such mysteries as First Folio and quarto texts, iambic pentameter, scansion, soliloquy, shared lines, half-lines, direct address, end-stops, end-jam, breath, pause, punctuation... and how to simply embrace the theatrics of Shakespeare as a shared (and truthful) experience.

Jump-Start II is a continuation of the work at play in Jump-Start I, moving into scenes and soliloquies, and how the literary devices of rhyme, alliteration, assonance, etc. help guide the actor both to the author's and the actor's intentions.
Summer Workshop!
HB Studio Welcomes Back
Donna McKechnie
Auditioning for Musical Theatre
3 Sundays, July 6, 13, and 20
3pm - 5:30pm

Interested students, please submit a picture and resume to the 3rd Floor Office by Friday June 6, or email to info@hbstudio.org.

This class will focus on the student's individual and personal approach to integrating music, text, and movement; whether auditioning for Broadway, opera, cabaret, or concert; through relaxation exercises, improvisation, and personalizing character and story. For dancers, singers, and actors! This is a 2 1/2-hour class for fifteen students. Basic acting training or experience is required.

Donna McKechnie's Broadway credits include the original production of A CHORUS LINE (Tony Award), Sally in FOLLIES (1998), STATE FAIR (Fred Astaire Award for Best Female Dancer), HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING, A FUNNY THING HAPPENED... (national tour), THE EDUCATION OF HYMAN KAPLAN, and SONDHEIM-A MUSICAL (choreography also). Regional: Cole Porter's YOU NEVER KNOW (Pasadena Playhouse), I DO! I DO!, MISALLIANCE, THE GOODBYE GIRL, and GYPSY. London's West End: Cole Porter's CAN CAN (Strand Theatre) and NO WAY TO TREAT A LADY (choreography also, Arts' Theatre). Music and cabaret: full-length autobiographical show INSIDE THE MUSIC (text by Christopher Durang), opera debut in DIE FLEDERMAUS (1996, San Francisco Opera), and other concert, cabaret, and orchestra performances. Nominations: Mac Award for Best Female Singer and Backstage Bistro Award for Outstanding Major Engagement for her cabaret show MY MUSICAL COMEDY LIFE, Helen Hayes Award for Bob Fosse's SWEET CHARITY, and L.A. Theater Alliance League's 2001 Ovation Award for Best Featured Actress in MACK AND MABEL. TV: FAME, CHEERS, FAMILY TIES, TWIRL, DARK SHADOWS, and others. Her memoir, TIME STEPS, MY MUSICAL COMEDY LIFE, was released last year by Simon and Schuster.
Performances!
Two by Tennessee Williams
The HB Ensemble presents

AUTO-DA-FE
directed by Aleksey Burago and

A PERFECT ANALYSIS GIVEN BY A PARROT
directed by Kate Bushmann

with Stephanie Braxton*, Tom Schubert, Grace Kiley*, Judy Rosenblatt* and Pascal Escriout

Saturday and Sunday
June 7 and June 8 @ 8pm
First Floor Studio, 120 Bank Street

Free of charge; no reservations required
First come, first served

*member, Actors Equity Association
Auto-da-Fe and A Perfect Analysis Given by a Parrot are presented by arrangement with Dramatists Play Service on behalf of the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee
Performances!
VALPARAISO by Don DeLillo
An HB Ensemble Project
Directed by Rasa Allan Kazlas

June 11-28 @ 8pm
EXCEPT June 15 & 22 at 3pm only
No performances June 16 & 23

HB Playwrights Foundation Theatre, 124 Bank Street

Call 212-989-7856 for reservations, Mon-Fri 12:30 to 5:30pm
Free of charge; limit 2 per request.
Attention All F-1 International Students
You must let us know your plans for the summer. There is a summer sign out sheet at the front desk in the third floor office.

If your financials are due in June 2008, please begin collecting your new financial documents to continue your studies at the Studio. As usual, you must make an appointment with Snezhana or Lois to have your I-20's signed by June 19, 2008. Bring your passport and I-20 to this meeting.
Items for the Taking
HB Studio has two extra pianos we would like to offer up free of charge to any interested persons who can provide pickup and transport. According to our (very knowledgeable) piano tuner, they are fine instruments, each of which could use some work to get in in top shape. One needs its leg repaired, the other needs about $300 of deeper repairs. We would be happy to provide a more detailed assessment upon request.

Also available for anyone interested in carting it off is a working computer monitor in the old style...

Please contact Peter Bloch, our Managing Director, pbloch@hbstudio.org, if you are interested.
HB Faculty News
Stephen DeRosa will appear in THE GERSHWINS' AN AMERICAN IN PARIS at the Alley Theatre in Houston, Texas, April 26 to June 1.

Mark Blum appears with Judd Hirsch in Yazmina Reza's ART at Shadowland Theatre in Ellenville, NY. May 30 to June 15.

Eric Michael Gillett takes part in a concert staging of Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's SHOW BOAT at Carnegie Hall, June 10.

Michael Blake appears with Gus Solomons and PARADIGM in their 10th anniversary season at Dance Theater Workshop, July 8, 9, and 20.
HB Summer Faculty
Visit our web site for class details!

Acting
Peter Arcese (Text Analysis)
Matthew Arkin (Contemporary Scene Study) NEW
Michael Beckett (Technique, Scene Study)
Mark Blum (Acting with Camera)
Jim Boerlin (Technique, Scene Study)
Aleksey Burago (Actor/Director Workshop, Chekhov)
Snezhana Chernova (Acting-Physical Technique)
Joseph Daly (Technique, Scene Study)
Anne Jackson (Advanced Scene Study)
Alec Harrington (Advanced Shakespeare) Special Workshop!
Jeanne Kaplan (Technique, Scene Study)
Karen Ludwig (Acting with Camera, Comedy in Action) NEW
Christopher Martin (Shakespeare) NEW
Edward Morehouse (Technique, Scene Study, Text Analysis)
Rochelle Oliver (Technique, Intermediate/Advanced Scene Study)
Austin Pendleton (Advanced Scene Study,
  Tennessee Williams Scene Study) *w/ Guest Victor Slezak
Lorraine Serabian (Technique & Scene Study)
Trudy Steibl (Technique & Scene Study)
Tony Vellela (Character Studies) NEW Special Workshop!

Directing
Aleksey Burago
Dennis Erdman (Directing for Television) NEW Special Seminar!
Jack Hofsiss

Improv
John Monteith (Improv)
John Monteith & Suzanne Rand (Performance Improv)

Movement & Body Work
Martha Bernard (Alexander Technique)
Michael Blake (Movement Workshop)
Janis Brenner (Voice/Movement/Theatre Improvisation) NEW
 Special Workshop!
Joseph Daly (Fencing)
Nathalie Paoli/Siri Sat Kaur (Yoga)
Ian Marshall (Stage Combat: Contemporary Weapons) Special
 Workshop!
Stefanie Proessl (Alexander Technique, Feldenkrais Method)
Fred Timm (Movement for Actors)

Musical Theatre
Martha Bernard (Singing)
Philip Carroll (Music Reading & Vocal Technique)
Helen Gallagher (Musical Performance)
Dan Manjovi (Singing, Musicianship II, Building Repertoire,
  Song Presentation)
Ann McCormack (American Musical Theatre)
Donna McKechnie (The Musical Theatre Audition) NEW Special
 Workshop!
Lorraine Serabian (Musical Theatre Presentation)

Professional Development
Matthew Arkin (Commercial Voiceover Workshop) NEW Special
 Workshop!
Eric Michael Gillett & Guests (Actors' Survival Series)

Speech & Speaking Voice
Ruth Berkowitz (Speech, Dialects, Recitation of Shakespeare,
  Better English for Everyone)
Fernando Gambaroni (English for Actors)
Lenore Harris (Speech, Voice, Monologues & Public Speaking)
Janine Pearson/Ann Skinner (Language Bath) NEW Special
 Workshop!
Ilse Pfeifer (Voice)
Amanda Quaid (Dialects)

Writing
Julie McKee (Playwriting/Screenwriting Workshop)
David Spencer (Musical Theatre Libretto I and II)

Young People's Classes
Ruth Berkowitz (Speech, all ages)
Marlene Mancini (Acting, ages 9-14 and 14-17)
Ann McCormack (Musical Theatre, ages 8-11)
Ann McCormack/Michael Blake (Musical Theatre Workshop,
 ages 12-17)
Ilse Pfeifer (Voice Workshop for Teens, ages 13-17)
Suzanne Rand (Improv for Teens, ages 13-17)
Trudy Steibl (Acting, ages 13-17)
HB Studio began in 1945 and aims for a meaningful dramatic expression of the times and country in which we live. To help establish a theatre of experimentation based on classic tradition, the Studio is dedicated to the development of individual artists, who may actively contribute to a theatre of national character. Conceived as an artistic and working home, it offers an outlet for practice and growth for the professional theatre artist, and an opportunity for the young to establish roots in their intended craft. The Studio's guiding principle is creative freedom, which has as its logical consequence responsibility to a noble art.

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