The H B Playwrights Foundation

Developing and producing new plays and work-in-progress:the hb Playwrights Foundation is a not-for-profit theater committed to developing and producing new plays and Playwrights and to The performance of non-commercial theater for The benefit of The artists involved. During an ordinary year, hbpf will produce works-in-progress productions in collaboration with hb studio. In The fiscal year ending 8/31/2023, hbpf supported 35 public events in its hb Playwrights theatre and provided rental space to 5 artistic projects. During The fiscal year ending 8/31/2023, in collaboration with hb studio, hbpf supported The following:(continued on schedule o)(a) residency projects:artists were given time and technical support to rehearse and present a new work at an early- to mid-stage of development in The hb Playwrights Foundation theatre. Six (6) week-long residencies, featuring 47 artists, each culminating in a public presentation; 40 artists, 12 performances, 323 audience. Projects: matt butler, reckless son (4/18/23-4/24/23); deirdre macnamara, archipelago (5/15/23-5/21/23); maria cominis, women of zalongo (6/5/23-6/11/23); kate fuglei, in The blink of an eye (6/12/23-6/18/23); ashley teague, recovery (7/2/23-7/9/23); spiderwoman theater & beautiful canoe collective, journey The beautiful canoe (7/17/23-7/25/23). In addition, hb hosted acting out, a resident company of 20 formerly incarcerated persons. Acting out members took part in a collaborative workshop with residency artist matt butler, 4/18/23-4/19/23 and began work on an original project to be presented The following season. Resident artist kayhan irani led a public talk - The whole world over: refugee art making & making home in The west village - with artists from The artistic freedom initiative (11/17/22). (B) hb studio works-in-progress productions and public events: thirteen (13) public events over 12 dates, featuring 141 artists and serving an audience of 433. You n yours - The father file (multi-media in-person), 9/11/22; The greenwich village project: cultural icons of greenwich village, 10/26/22; an evening with dael orlandersmith and felice rosser (1/31/23); independent study project winter, spring, summer presentations 3/18/23, 5/28/23, 8/20/23; design for living at 90, 4/3/23; art of directing, 5/22/23; The seagull, 6/3/23, 6/4/23; The real poems (robert mcqueen), 6/26/23, 6/27/23; radical and fragile bodies (alejandro de la guerra), 8/12/23. (c) works-in-progress readings:hb hosted The bar collective, presenting ten (10) staged readings of new plays in progress developed at The studio; readings were presented in The hb Playwrights theatre 10/2/2022, 10/5/2022, 10/6/2022, 10/7/2022, 10/8/2022, 10/9/2022, 10/11/2022, 10/13/2022, 10/14/2022, 10/15/2022, featuring 93 artists, to a total audience of 249. Readings featured: illusion or (me & renoir at nate 'n al's by gary kahn, doris & bertie by tiffa foster, knifework by michael d. sharp, a hard look by elise catera, a part of our lives by ellis charles hoffmeister, life? Or theater? By marie pohl, john & sherlock by beth jacobson, school's out by richie v. dang, The valley by monica stamas, hyannis by pat golden.