HB Insight Series
HB Studio is a globally recognized training studio with the privilege of working with artists from all over the world. Our HB Insight Series episodes feature a variety of these artists and focuses on the question: what lies beyond the work we see? What was the journey that this artist took to get to where they are? Within each of these stories is a love letter written for all artists and the audiences that appreciate them.
Episodes
Exploring the artistic journey with Writer and Intimacy Coordinator, Joey Massa, and Director, Katharine Lorraine. In this episode, we talk about the importance of intimacy coordination in sensitive work, and their work developing WORKSHOP, as a part of their 2024 HB Residency.
Exploring the artistic journey with Đavid Lee Huỳnh, a Vietnamese American theatre artist, voice over, and 2024 HB Rehearsal Space Resident Artist developing X#*! You Very Much, Mom, a one-man show where theatre meets TED talk, based on his own life growing up Asian American, and why it was so hard for his mom to say "I love you".
Exploring the artistic journey with Tank and Darius, artists from the queer arts collective “I Don’t Wanna See That?!!?!”. Join us as we talk about their journey into forming a collective, their introduction into the artform of drag, and getting insight on their 2024 Residency with HB Studio developing The Mannequin Play, a devised folk-rap musical about three mannequins thrust into unfamiliar worlds and are forced to create new fa...
A special four-guest episode, HB Studio hosts a virtual conversation with the four Uta Hagen Award Recipients: Kelly Quinnett (2019 Awardee, University of Idaho), Yesenia Herrington (2022 Awardee from Texas State University), Katherine LeRoy-Lawson (2023 Awardee from South Georgia State College), and Jenny McKnight (2024 Awardee from Indiana University). Join us as we explore each journey that led to teaching theatre in higher educ...
Exploring the artistic journey of Amanda McDowall and Jacqueline Raymond Wegman, co-founders of the International Girls Ensemble! Listen to their approach on creating a lasting community and uplifting young women through the lens of theatre. The International Girls Ensemble was chosen for HB’s residency in 2020 and finally they are back in 2024 with 12 young girls eager to tell their inspiring stories and share their artistry with ...
Exploring the artistic journey of Melody Erfani, founder of Lower Eastside Shakespeare Company, Resident HB Artist developing,The Words Will Come, a play about dyslexia. Join us as Melody shares her upbringing as an Iranian-American living in Texas, falling in love with theatre, traveling the world, her love of classical theatre and the power of artistic collaboration. We reflect on the conception of Melody’s 2017 HB residency Bee,...
Explore the artistic journey of Nehassaiu deGannes, actor, poet, maker, educator, storyteller and so much more… Experience with us as Nehassaiu shares her unique path to the development of her artistry. We explore her relationship to language, her ethos as an artist and educator, her Caribbean background, her diverse educational journey, some of her favorite roles and mentors that guided her along the way.Nehassaiu graciously share...
Exploring the artistic journey of multi-hyphenate creator Jermaine Rowe as he reflects and shares his journey towards becoming an artist through cultural exploration, self acceptance, growth, and spirituality. We talk about his upbringing in Spanish Town Jamaica, being an F1 student new to NYC with a scholarship to Alvin Ailey, touring with The Lion King and Fela!, his transition into becoming an educator, and his inventive new wor...
Exploring the artistic journey of Recovery, a devised theatre experience produced and directed by 2023 HB resident artists Ashley Olive Teague and Jayne McLendon. Ashley and Jayne share their community based approach to theatre as they guide us through the conception of their healing presentation. As leaders of their own theatre spaces the ladies give us advice on the collaborative process and how to create stories around difficult...
Exploring the artistic journey of Matt Butler, musician and songwriter. We talk about transition of being a lone wolf artist to working a collaborative theatre setting, and his work performing and storytelling in correctional facilities.
Exploring the artistic journey of Kayhan Irani, artist and activist. We talk about how Kayhan got her start at HB, taking classes a very young age, sharing a special moment with founder Herbert Berghof, how she found her activist spirit in her art and life, and how it all lead to her to start her project: The Whole World Over: Refugee Art Making & Making Home in the West Village, bringing together immigrants artists to share th...
Explore the artistic journey of Deirdre MacNamara, playwright, actress, yoga instructor. We take a look back of how she got her start as an artist, from being offered the wrong kind of dance job, to the artists she's worked with over the years—and to this day, and creating art through personal experiences.
Explore the artistic journey of Maria Cominis, actor, playwright, director, author, educator, mother. We talk about finding truth and how she came to write her new piece, Women of Zalongo, a story inspired by her ancestral history.
Exploring the artistic journey of Kate Fuglei, actress, writer, and author. We talked about growing up artistic, trauma, and retelling those human experiences to find healing and human experience, which lead Kate to write In The Blink Of An Eye.
Artist-in-Residency, Ashley Olive Teague and Playwright, Gwen Kingston, share with us the development of their residency project: DICK, excavating the iconic text of Moby Dick and telling stories from womxn, and non-binary folx perspectives. And the community work that they've done through Notch Theatre Company.
Featuring Ashley Olive Teague & Gwen Kingston
Host: Francesca Ferrara
Production Manager: Melisa Kucevic
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Richard Hoehler discusses his company, ACTING OUT: a theatre that offers professional training, practice, and performance opportunities for the formerly incarcerated. Each participant in ACTING OUT experienced the transformative value of a theatre program while in prison and wish to continue their training upon release.
Featuring Richard Hoehler
Co-Host: Richie Dang
Host: Francesca Ferrara
Production Manager: Melisa Kuc...
Our first episode features, Core & Movement Instructor, Ben Mehl about how he got his start in acting, becoming a teaching artist, and his struggles with vision prepared that led him to his role in Season 3 of Netflix’s You.
Featuring Ben Mehl
Co-Host: Yessi Hernandez
Host: Francesca Ferrara
Production Manager: Melisa Kucevic
Audio Technician: Gabriel Robinson
Graphics: Claudia Quintero
Music: Zaq Latino...
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