We hope you enjoy the long weekend with the folks in your community! Have a blast!
Newsletter – July 2024
Check out our July 2024 Newsletter here! This month’s newsletter features: Upcoming Adult Classes Youth Summer Camps and Intensives Last Chance for the 6-Week Summer Program Applications for the 2024-25 1-Year Acting and Directing Programs …and more!
Teacher Spotlight: Stephen Singer
We’d love to introduce you to one of our incredible TBG teaching artists, Stephen Singer! Read our interview with him below… — What do you enjoy most about teaching? SS: Teaching acting is something I never expected to do when I set out on an acting career. I’ve had agents …
Teacher Feature – June 2024
Check out our June 2024 Teacher Feature to meet a few of TBG’s incredible teaching artists! This month features Scott Organ, Quinn Vogt-Welch, and Stephen Singer. Check out TBG’s full schedule of classes!
Teacher Spotlight: John Yearley
We’d love to introduce you to one of our incredible TBG teaching artists, John Yearley! Read our interview with him below… — What do you enjoy most about teaching? JY: Finding teaching in midlife is one of the great gifts of my life, so it’s hard to narrow it down to …
Kate Neuman: How It Should Be
Your idea of a character is necessarily less interesting than you are, because it’s only a part of you. – Seth Barrish, many years ago. I’ve been an actor for a long time; I became a writer more recently. I’ve found that, for both, releasing my ideas of “how it …
Join us for our June Improv Sharing!
It’s Improv Night again! Come by TBG this Friday, June 14 at 7pm to see our next Improv Sharing, featuring students from Improv I and Improv II under the guidance of TBG teaching artist Samantha Evans! Reserve your free ticket here or just come on by!
Teacher Spotlight: Dinanda Klaassen
We’d love to introduce you to one of our incredible TBG teaching artists, Dinanda Klaassen! Read our interview with her below… — What do you enjoy most about teaching? DK: Oooh, so many things! When the class and I are in “the playground.” I often talk about the playground metaphor in …
Culminating Performances – 2023/24 1-Year Directing Program
Join us for an evening (or two) of work by our 2023/24 1-Year Directing Program students! Program A – Featuring work by Jennifer Fox, Brien Longobardi, and Cary Patrick Martin Click here to Meet the Directors and Creatives Program B – Featuring work by Rey Parla, Caleb Barron, Daniel Halasz, …
Lee Brock: Compare and Despair
Today I had a conversation with a fantastic artist. He mentioned, “I’m having some issues with Compare and Despair.” “Why?” “I just heard a song a guy wrote, and I think it’s better than anything I’ve ever written.” “But you are so talented and have accomplished so much!” He shrugged …
Newsletter – June 2024
Check out our June 2024 Newsletter here! This month’s newsletter features: Upcoming Adult Classes Youth Summer Camps and Intensives Applications for the 6-Week Summer Program and 2024-25 1-Year Acting and Directing Programs Culminating Performances for 2023-24 1-Year Acting and Directing Programs An Improv Class Sharing …and more!
Teacher Spotlight: Brian Rojas
We’d love to introduce you to one of our incredible TBG teaching artists, Brian Rojas! Read our interview with him below… — What do you enjoy most about teaching? BR: [I love] creating an environment for a class to be silly, vulnerable, playful, and supportive with each other. Also, how …
Culminating Performances – 2023/24 1-Year Professional Acting Program
Join us for an evening of work featuring our 2023/24 1-Year Professional Acting Program students. Saturday, June 15 at 7PM – Reserve Tickets Sunday, June 16 at 3PM – Reserve Tickets Sunday, June 16 at 7PM – Reserve Tickets Featuring: Ashendri Picon, Ben Heineman, Connor Wilson, Dara Goudreau, Emma Ryan, Greer …
Ron Piretti: The Joy is in the Work
It is important to have a goal, but so often we forget about the journey. It seems we tend to look for the final result. The joy is in the work. That is where creativity begins. We draw from what we know and those who have gone before us. We …
Teacher Feature – May 2024
Check out our May 2024 Teacher Feature to meet a few of TBG’s incredible teaching artists! This month features Brian Rojas, Dinanda Klaassen, and John Yearley.
Culminating Performances – 2023/24 1-Year Intermediate Acting Program
Join us for an evening of work featuring our 2023/24 1-Year Intermediate Acting Program students. Saturday, June 8 at 7PM – Reserve Tickets Sunday, June 9 at 3PM – Reserve Tickets Sunday, June 9 at 7PM – Reserve Tickets Featuring: Bill Fitzpatrick, Catie Chan, Esme Mitchell, Isabella Milkes, Jacob Burke, …
Lee Brock: Keep Moving Forward
It is Tuesday morning. I open the New York Times Arts section. Eli Gelb is nominated for a Tony award for his work in Stereophonic. I laugh and quietly let out a celebratory “Whoo!” sound. I’ve known Eli since he was fifteen years old. Eli took The Barrow Group’s six-week …
Teacher Spotlight: Julia Ryan
We’d love to introduce you to one of our incredible TBG teaching artists, Julia Ryan! Read our interview with her below… — What do you enjoy most about teaching? JR: What I enjoy most about teaching is the privilege of being in the creative process with others – class is …
Teacher Spotlight: Eric Paeper
We’d love to introduce you to one of our incredible TBG teaching artists, Eric Paeper! Read our interview with him below… — What do you enjoy most about teaching? EP: Watching students come to the realization that good acting is easy! We are all hardwired to believe that extreme effort brings …
Michael Giese: The Garden
“All will be well in the garden.” So says the brilliant Peter Sellers’ character Chauncey “Chance” Gardiner in Hal Ashby’s 1979 film, “Being There.” I often think of this quote when asked by students how to get an agent or work with a casting director or join the union or …