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Dear HB Friends and Family, Winter 2012 term runs 12 weeks, January 2 to March 25
Search Winter class information online
or pick up a brochure in the 3rd floor office
Special workshops are offered throughout the term.
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Applications now being accepted
for the full-time intensive programs of
the Hagen Institute | The 2012 Hagen Summer Intensive (6 weeks) and
The 2012-2013 Hagen Core Training (one year/3 terms)
Pick up a brochure in the 3rd floor office or request one by email to jboerlin[at]hbstudio[dot]org.
Affordable, integrated, world-class, intensive actor training. |
Monday Public Seminar Series:
Meet the Producers/People Who Make Theatre | |
A series of public conversations with the leaders of New York nonprofit theatre companies.
Learn about their artistic objectives, their selection processes, how they accomplish their work.
Moderated by Jack Doulin
Monday, January 30 @ 7:30pm
JESSE BERGER | Artistic Director, RED BULL THEATER
HB Playwrights Theatre
124 Bank Street
Refreshments and meet-and-greet to follow
Open to the public, suggested donation $10
$5 for current HB Students and Faculty
Click Here to make a reservation!
Click Here to make a reservation from your mobile device!
Red Bull Theater is a New York-based theater company specializing in plays of heightened language. With a unique focus on the Jacobean plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, Red Bull Theater embraces the imagination of theatergoers through intimate, evocative productions of great classic stories.
As founding artistic director of Red Bull Theater, Jesse Berger has adapted and directed productions of Pericles, The Revenger's Tragedy, Edward the Second, Women Beware Women, The Duchess of Malfi and The Witch of Edmonton. All six productions received critically-acclaimed extended Off Broadway runs. Jesse's adaptations of The Revenger's Tragedy and Women Beware Women are published by Dramatists Play Service. Red Bull Theater continues to produce an eclectic variety of classical and contemporary work under Jesse's leadership, including the OBIE Award-Winning Revelation Reading Series.
Save the date!
Monday, February 27 @ 7:30pm
Guest to be Announced!
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Sharpen Your Skills with these
Special Winter Offerings! | |
John Charles Murphy
Developing The Comic Character 2 Saturdays, February 4 & 11 3:00pm - 6:00pm, $52 Movement based lessons in comic character development, drawing from the methods of J. LeCoq, M. Chekhov, Uta Hagen, and others. Jim Jermanok Successful Film Producing and Financing Sunday, February 5 10:00am - 5:00pm, $90 This former ICM Agent and acclaimed producer distills 25 years of professional experience into a nuts & bolts, no bull, empowering one-day workshop. Sue Maskaleris Your Best 16 Bars 4 Sundays, February 5, 12, 19 & 26 3:00pm - 5:00pm, $88 Find the best material for your voice and personality; build a successful repertoire for any musical theatre audition. Carol Morley The Art of the Audition 4 Wednesdays, February 8, 15, 22 & 29 12:30pm - 2:30pm, $80 Your choice of material, your presentation, your acting, and the problems that come between you and your best work. Giovanni Villari Stage Craft: Lights & Sound Friday, February 17 4:00pm - 6:00pm, FREE OF CHARGE! Orientation and instruction in the basics of technical theatre production focusing on Lights and Sound. Mark Blum Commercial Voice Over Intensive
Saturdays, March 10, 17 & 24
12:30pm - 2:30pm, $75 A practical workshop designed to acquaint the student with the specific techniques involved in performing commercial voiceover and radio copy. David Sharp Financial Planning for Performers - Choosing Stocks
Saturday, March 10
2:30pm - 4:30pm, FREE OF CHARGE!
Artist-friendly financial planning! Save, invest, and build financial security on a limited and changeable income.
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2012 HB Ensemble Auditions | |
Thanks to all who auditioned for the 2012 HB Ensemble.
Notification will go out to all by February 6. |
Attention F-1 Students:
Optional Practical Training | If you are studying on an F-1 international student visa and eligible for Optional Practical Training at the end of the Winter 2012 term, there is an invitation and information for you in student mail on the third floor.
Please see Lois or Snezhana the international student advisors with any questions. |
Spring Term Scholarships | |
Applications are now being accepted for a limited number of spring term studio class scholarships.
Deadline: February 13, 2012.
Awards will be announced February 27, 2012.
Please click here to fill out our online application.
You must list one instructor as a reference; please make sure you've received permission from the instructor before you complete the application.
Questions? Please email to scholarships@hbstudio.org
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New in Spring! | |
Planning a program for the Spring term?
HB proudly welcomes: Reed Birney, Anne Meara, Donna McKechnie, and Contemporary Stage Combat specialist Dan Renkin to the Spring term teaching faculty.
In addition, master teacher Jack Garfein will conduct a 4-week, 12-session acting intensive in April. Look for detailed postings in mid-February!
Spring registration begins February 27.
Spring class details will be posted by February 20.
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HB Playwrights Foundation presents
THE OLD HOUSE
by Peter Coston | |
Directed by Laura Esterman
with Matthew Conlon*, Eiko Kawashima, Turna Mete, Richard O'Brien, Mollie O'Mara*, Eric Rasmussen*, Allison Plamondon, Terry Gibson*, Toshiji Takeshima*
Performances: February 8-25, 2012
Sundays, February 12 & 19 at 3PM
All other performances at 8PM
NO PERFORMANCES: Mondays, February 13 and 20
HB Playwrights Theatre, 124 Bank Street
Reservations: call 212-989-7856, Mon-Fri, 1-5pm
*Member, Actor's Equity Association
An Equity-approved Showcase
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HOT L BALTIMORE by Lanford Wilson | |
Directed by Amy Wright
A First Floor Studio Workshop Project
Saturday/Sunday
February 11, 12, 18, 19, 25, 26 @ 8pm
First Floor Studio, 120 Bank Street Reservations: call 212-675-2370 ext. 1 *Member, Actor's Equity Association An Equity-approved Showcase |
Housekeeping: | |
HB is a home to many artists. It takes all our efforts to keep these facilities in the best possible working order. Please treat our studio classrooms with care!
An important word about our heating system: each classroom in 120 Bank Street is equipped with its own heating unit. It is supplied with hot water from the main boiler on the 3rd floor. An outside sensor adjusts the level of heat automatically according to the outside temperature. There is no other general heating source in the building, so if a single unit gets turned off and stays off for the length of a class, or worse yet, overnight, the brick walls in that space become so cold that they cannot easily be reheated. There are thermostats in each classroom that make it possible to adjust the level of the heating blowing into the room. Please do not, under any circumstances, shut a heating unit off entirely!
The linoleum surface of our Studio floors is foot-friendly, but vulnerable to nicks and scratches. We implore you to pick up furniture when moving to set up your scene or class.
Thank you, too, for restoring props and furniture to their proper places (indicated on the posted diagram in each classroom) and removing any additional materials or trash you may have brought with you, when you go.
Finally, please don't move items from one studio to another and please don't add any props or furniture without first discussing and clearing your donation with a representative of our third floor office: Operations Manager James Mallinson, Key Coordinator Kenneth Thompson, or Facilities Coordinator Tom Tinelli.
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Johanna Leister will appear in Eugene O'Neill's BEYOND THE HORIZON with the Irish Repertory, February 26 to April 8.
Amanda Quaid appears in GALILEO at CSC with HB alum F. Murray Abraham, February 1 to March 11. Amanda is also receiving support from the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs SPARC: Seniors Partnering with Artists Citywide for a community engagement artist-in-residence project with the Hudson Guild.
Geoffrey Owens will appear in David Mamet's RACE at the Goodman Theatre, January 14 to February 19.
Victor Slezak will appear in an episode of the CBS crime drama A PERSON OF INTEREST. Victor can also be seen on the new TV series PAN AM and as chef Enrico Brulard on HBO's TREME.
Stephen DeRosa is on tour with WEST SIDE STORY.
Austin Pendleton directs Donald Margulies' TIME STANDS STILL for the Steppenwolf Theatre Company, January 19 to May 13. Austin will direct Lisa L'Amour's DETROIT in London at the National Theatre's Cottesloe in April.
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Lucia Cousins and Katherine O'Sullivan appear in Nina Morrison's ARROW IN at Dixon Place, January 31 to February 1.
Barbara Bleier's short play DEATH AND THE MATRON has been selected as part of the Abingdon Benefit Challenge, February 7. Performances at 6:30 and 8:30, all proceeds will go to Abingdon Theatre.
Catherine Siracusa directs HOUSE BROKEN by Monica Bauer with Glenn Beatty and Olivia Rorick for Abingdon's DENIAL PLAYS Benefit Challenge, Evening B. February 14 @ 6:30 and 8:30pm at The Dorothy Strelsin Theatre.
David Loughlin's play, SIMONE, written in Donna de Matteo's advanced playwriting seminar, was selected for the American Globe Theatre's 18th Annual NYCity 15 Minute Play Festival, April 23 to May 5.
Andrew R. Heinze's new play HAMILTON, a tragedy about Alexander Hamilton, is a semi-finalist for the 2012 National Playwrights Conference, June 30 at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center.
Nicole Pandolfo will perform her original play LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHLAMYDIA at Under St. Marks as part of the 2012 Frigid Festival, February 23 to March 4. Presented by J. Stephen Brantley's Hard Sparks!
Nancy Redman will perform her solo show CLUTTER: I'M SAVING MY LIFE AND IT'S KILLING ME, directed by Austin Pendleton, as a benefit for Abingdon Theatre Company Sunday Series, January 29 and February 5 at 7pm. CLUTTER appeared twice in the United Solo Theatre Festival and garnered Nancy the Best Comedian Award 2011 and Austin Pendleton the Best Directing Award 2010. For the February 5 performance, there is a $5.00 Discount with code CLUTTER at 212-868-2055 or online.
Ginger Grace has written and performs THE FIRST LADIES COALITION, directed by Austin Pendleton, February 6-12 at the Bridge Theatre, Shetler Studios.
Andrew Heinze's full-length play THE INVENTION OF THE LIVING ROOM, conceived at HB, will be developed by the Florida Studio Theatre in Sarasota, Florida, January 15 to May 15.
Ellen Orchid, student of Austin Pendleton appears in REST IN PIECES at the Hudson Guild Theater, March 3-12, 2012. Nicole Pandolfo will have a play in the Short+Sweet Sydney Festival , January 1 to February 29. Catherine Siracusa and Sidney Levitt are doing the costumes for LOST ON THE NATCHEZ TRACE by Jan Buttram, directed by Kate Bushmann, starring Peter Brouwer and Leopold Lowe, at the Abingdon Theatre, February 3-21, 2012.
Glenda Frank's play LITTLE IMAGES will have a production in 2012 as part of the League of Professional Theatre Women's anniversary celebration, the 30 Plays project.
Craig McNulty's play ...AND NO ONE KNOWS WHAT YOU'RE ABOUT will be in the Short & Sweet Sydney Festival, February 15-23.
Marlo Thomas and Caroline Aaron appear on Broadway in RELATIVELY SPEAKING, three one-act comedies by Ethan Coen, Elaine May, and Woody Allen, directed by John Turturro.
Kristine Covillo will appear in the new series SMASH debuting mid-season on NBC.
Anton Obeid (member of the HB Ensemble) has been cast in the newest Sacha Baron Cohen feature film, THE DICTATOR (Paramount, 2012), as 'The New BBC Interviewer'.
Bruce Colbert, formerly a student of Alexsey Burago, has a small role as an astrophysicist in the FOX feature ANOTHER EARTH now in theaters nationally. Also his one act play THE PICTURE PLANE was part of this summer's Midtown Int'l Theatre Festival.
Sharon Wajswol appears in the independent feature film, ISN'T IT DELICIOUS? starring Keir Dullea, Mia Dillon, Kathleen Chalfant, Malachy McCourt, and Alice Ripley. The black comedy written by Kathleen Kiley and directed by Michael Patrick Kelly is to be released in 2012.
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Acting
- George Bartenieff (Shakespeare and the Essential Tools for Classic Theater)
- Michael Beckett (Technique I, Technique II, Technique & Scene Study, Scene Study, Experimental Workshop)
- Jim Boerlin (Technique, Scene Study)
- Aleksey Burago (Actor/Director Workshop, Chekhov Performance Lab, Theatre Games & Character Development, Advanced Theatre Games & Acting Workshop)
- Snezhana Chernova (Acting Technique: The Actor Prepares)
- Jeffrey Couchman (Text Analysis: Methods Without Madness)
- Joseph Daly (Beginning Technique, Scene Study)
- Eric Michael Gillett (Discovering Monologues)
- Carol Goodheart (Technique & Scene Study: A Return to Basics)
- Sam Groom (Acting with the Camera)
- Alec Harrington (Acting Shakespeare)
- Jeanne Kaplan (Basic Technique, Scene Study)
- Rasa Allan Kazlas (Acting Improvisation, Improvisation, Technique & Scene Study)
- Carl Kissin (Improvisation, Advanced Improvisation)
- Louise Lasser (Acting Technique)
- Johanna Leister (Basic Technique, Scene Study)
- Karen Ludwig (Scenes from Life: Stories for the Camera)
- Christopher Martin (Shakespeare: Finding the Character, Shakespeare: Mining the Text, Shakespeare Audition Clinic Special Workshop!)
- Marion McCorry (Technique & Scene Study)
- Edward Morehouse (Technique I, Technique & Scene Study, Scene Study, The Actor's Homework: Text Analysis, Research, and Personalization)
- Carol Morley (Technique & Scene Study)
- John Charles Murphy (Developing the Comic Character Special Workshop!)
- Rochelle Oliver (Technique, Intermediate & Advanced Scene Study)
- Dael Orlandersmith (Solo Performance Playwriting )
- Austin Pendleton (Advanced Scene Study)
- Carol Rosenfeld (Scene Study)
- Lorraine Serabian (Technique & Scene Study)
- Trudy Steibl (Technique & Scene Study)
- Amy Wright (Technique via Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest) New!
Career Development
- Mark Blum (Commercial Voice Over Intensive) Special Workshop!
- Jack Doulin (The Art of Showing Up: Auditioning for the Theatre)
- Jack Doulin/Amelia Campbell (What's Stopping You? An Audition Intensive for the Working Actor) Special Workshop!
- Eric Michael Gillett (Actor's Tools of the Trade: The Business Essentials, Discovering Monologues Special Workshop!)
- Jim Jermanok (Successful Film Producing and Finance) Special Workshop!
- Christopher Martin (Shakespeare Audition Clinic) Special Workshop!
- Sue Maskaleris (Your Best 16 Bars) Special Workshop!
- Carol Morley (The Art of the Audition) Special Workshop!
- David Sharp (Financial Planning for Performers: Mutual Funds, Choosing Stocks) Free Special Workshops!
Directing
- Aleksey Burago (Actor/Director Workshop, Theatre Games & Character Development) New!
- Jack Hofsiss (Stage Direction)
- Christopher Martin (Shakespeare: Mining the Text)
Improvisation
- Rasa Allan Kazlas (Acting Improvisation, Improvisation)
- Carl Kissin (Improvisation, Advanced Improvisation)
- Janis Brenner (Moving, Sounding & Acting: Integrating Movement, Voice & Theatre thru Improv) Special Workshop!
Movement
- Martha Bernard (Alexander Technique)
- Michael Blake (Power/Movement/Dance for Actors)
- Janis Brenner (Moving, Sounding & Acting: Integrating Movement, Voice & Theatre thru Improv) Special Workshop!
- Joseph Daly (Stage Fencing I, Stage Fencing II)
- Barrie Estes (Dance Techniques, T'ai Chi)
- Siri Sat Kaur (Kundalini Yoga)
- John Charles Murphy (Developing the Comic Character) Special Workshop!
- Stefanie Proessl (Alexander Technique, Feldenkrais/Alexander: An Ideal Foundation for Effortless Movement)
- Fred Timm (Movement for Actors)
Musical Theatre
- Martha Bernard (Singing Voice)
- Martha Bernard/Michael Joviala (Sing + Move + Play: Discover Your Singing Voice and Natural Musicality) Special Workshop!
- John Bowen (Singing Voice)
- Philip Carroll (Vocal Technique for Rock, Pop, Contemporary Musical Theatre and Recording Vocals)
- Barrie Estes (Dance Techniques)
- Helen Gallagher (Musical Performance)
- Rita Gardner (Integration with Song and Script) New!
- Eric Michael Gillett (Acting for Musical Theatre)
- Dan Manjovi (Beginning & Intermediate Singing Voice, Intermediate Singing Voice, Beginning Vocal Technique, Building the Singer's Repertoire, Song Presentation)
- Sue Maskaleris (Your Best 16 Bars New Special Workshop!)
- Jill O'Hara (Singing Technique & Performance, Song Interpretation and Performance)
- Lorraine Serabian (The Art of Musical Presentation)
Playwriting & Screenwriting
- Carl Capotorto (Screenplay) New!
- Donna de Matteo (Playwriting Seminar)
- Julie McKee (Clarity, Economy and Mystery: Playwriting Workshop, Playwriting & Screenwriting Workshop)
- Dael Orlandersmith (Solo Performance Playwriting)
Speech & Speaking Voice
- Ruth Berkowitz (Speech and Voice, Foreign Accent Reduction, The Accent Exchange: Series 1 - Pattern Shift & Advanced Speech) Updated!
- Mark Blum (Commercial Voice-Over Intensive ) Special Workshop!
- Robin Christian-McNair (Voice Production: Linklater Technique, The Joy of Speech)
- Fernando Gambaroni (English for Actors)
- Lenore Harris (Speech I: The Fundamentals of Diction, Speech II: Vocal Warmups & Text: Toward the Performance, Speaking Voice as a Means to Individual Expression, Speaking Monologues & Public Speaking Skills)
- John McManus (Exploring Shakespeare's Language through Movement and Gesture, Voice & Speech as Sound & Movement)
- Ilse Pfeifer (Voice Workshop)
- Joshua Popenoe (English Pronunciation for Asian Language Speakers I: Vowels & Consonants/Foundation, English Pronunciation for Asian Language Speakers II: Rhythm & Connection/Application)
- Amanda Quaid (Accents & Dialects, Speech II: Consonants and Intonation of American English)
Young People's Classes
- Ruth Berkowitz (Speech, all ages)
- Carrie Edel Isaacman/Jim May/Trudy Steibl (Acting Intensive for Teens, ages 13-17) New!
- Marlene Mancini (Acting for Teens, ages 14-7; Game of Make Believe, ages 9-14)
- Claudia Terry (Acting Technique for Young People, ages 9-14)
Hagen Core Training 2011-2012
- Martha Bernard (Alexander)
- Michael Blake (Movement)
- Mark Blum (Scene Study)
- Jim Boerlin (Administrative Director)
- Edward Morehouse (Text Analysis)
- Ilse Pfeifer (Voice)
- Carol Rosenfeld (Technique, Artistic Director)
- Erik Singer (Speech)
- Victor Slezak (Scene Study)
- Trudy Steibl (Technique)
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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. Learn more at www.hbstudio.org.
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