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The Barrow Group

Aileen Leon

About The Barrow Group

ABOUT

  • Founded in 1986 by Seth Barrish and Lee Rock (married)
  • Consists of three main programs
  • Training Center
  • Annual Main-stage Season production
  • Developmental program creating original new stories of real-life people
  • Community driven to enact social and political change
  • Specializes in Spontaneous forms of theater
  • Focuses on acting methods that include free movement, thought, and actions
  • Heavy philosophy involving thought influencing movement and movement influencing thought when it comes to acting

Aileen Leon

MISSION

MISSION

  • Through spontaneous based acting training and well-crafted stories, the mission is to invoke social, spiritual, and political change by creating an experience through artist-audience connection
  • To be inclusive in terms of diversity that also reflects the diversity of New York city
  • To inspire, empower, and bring people together to achieve greater things as a community

HISTORY

Aileen Leon

Seth Barrish

WHO IS THIS GUY?

  • Mr. Barrish is the director of ''Old Wicked Songs,'' playing at the Promenade Theater in New York.
  • He graduated from the University of California in Los Angeles.
  • He is a son of Fran and Dr. Bernard Barrish of Petaluma, Calif.
  • His mother is a painter, and his father, who is retired, was an associate professor of education at California State University at Hayward.
  • Has won countless awards for his directing and plays

Aileen Leon

Seth as a director

"At first, “Old Wicked Songs” looks as if it’s going to be a play about a crusty old codger and an arrogant young man and how they’re both going to teach each other and open each other up. It turns out to be exactly what it looked like, but with unexpected turns, and the exquisite music of Schumann guiding the path."

Los Angeles TIMES

"Presented by the Geffen Playhouse in association with Daryl Roth and Jeffrey Ash. By Jon Marans. Directed by Seth Barrish. Sets and costumes Markas Henry. Lights Howard Werner. Sound Red Ramona. Production stage manager James T. McDermott."

Aileen Leon

Lee Brock

IS SHE THE ROCK?

  • Ms. Brock most recently appeared as the lead in ''By the Sea, by the Sea, by the Beautiful Sea'' at the Manhattan Theater Club
  • Graduate of the University of Oklahoma
  • Daughter of Susan A. S. Brock and Phillip Brock, both from Lakewood, Colo.
  • Her father is an independent oil producer in Denver
  • Her mother is the president of Build a Generation, a volunteer organization in Lakewood

Aileen Leon

time line prime time

“Actually the Barrow Group has kind of helped start about five different theater companies, helping people to produce their own stuff, so I think it is getting harder to do that. I think there’s strength in numbers, so this co-production with the Pond was wonderful. It’s like we’re helping each other get the product out there.”

  • The Barrow Group is creating content on stage that is loose and spontaneous
  • They want to produce plays that don’t feel scripted.

The Barrow Groups Location

LOCATION

  • The Barrow group is "in the heart of New York City" - The Barrow Group (website)
  • 520 8th Ave, #901 New York, NY 10018
  • New York was founded over 400 years ago "in 1624 by the Dutch People"(Pennington) who settled along the Hudson river
  • The Barrow Group just opened a Performing Arts Center at the Address posted above. the 4M 13,000 sq ft center is beleived "to support more artists from all backgrounds and the long-term lease will enable us to set down roots, enriching people’s lives" (TBG web)
  • The Barrow group is also aiming to Empower artist no matter what.their aspirations will be and they are considererd a very impoortant cultural organization.

Steve Ramirez

picture time

Steve Ramirez

Photos

This image depicts an early map of New York in the late 1700's

Image below shows a painting depicting Fort George in the the mid 1700's

more pics, Broadway NY

significance

Steve Ramirez

Broadway Theater

  • Theres more..??
  • but wait....
  • the broad amount of theater companies make TBG fit in well to this location, the insane amount of cultural exposure is one of their strong points
  • The TGB group is also very supportive of black lives matter and even holding an event of stories where people share their experiences with racism to spread awareness
  • also had a online confrence on how to address the isuue of racism
  • Broadway has been associated with theater for over a 200 years
  • "New York has 41 Broadway theaters theaters with 500 or more seats....
  • 75 Off Broadway (theaters with 99 to 499 seats)...
  • Off-Off Broadway (fewer than 99 seats)" (Davidowitz)

significance

continued

Steve Ramirez

Theaters Built

and more

  • New Victory Theater built in the 1900s
  • New Amsterdam Theater opened in 1903
  • The Belasco Theater built in 1907

and more

  • TBG's location is highly significant. so significant in fact that these other historic and famous theaters are fairly close by

More

here

Steve Ramirez

Famous Works

  • The Barrow Group has had several popular playwrights, the three examples we have today have their own unique rewards awarded by different companies that are each credible and been around for some time, For almost 70 years these theater companies have held annual awards to the artist who earn their way.
  • Lets go over a few of their famous works

FAMOUS WORKS

&

AWARDS

Steve Ramirez

Famous Works

  • The Temperamentals by Jon Marans
  • My Girlfriends Boyfriend by Mike Birbiglia
  • This is a non-fiction story of a boy at the age of 12 has an abuser at a Catholic boys camp and the abuser is also his counselor . 30 years later they meet again. The Story goes over the effects it had on Moran growing up and his sexual awakening

Famous works

continued

  • a story about the creators search for love. Birbiglia is comedian so he portrays multiple stories about is romantic experiences in the form of jokes. He talks about his life, complicated love and his adventurous comedy gigs which he performs across the country
  • The Tricky Part: One Boy's Fall from Trespass into Grace by Martin Moran
  • The word temperamentals was used as a code for the word homosexual in the 1950s and the story is about two men, a communist named Harry Hay and a refugee named Rudi Gernreich. They fall in love and create the first gay rights organization in the US named Mattachine Society

Steve Ramirez

Famous works awards

  • The Tricky Part by Martin moran received an Obie award by the OAAA
  • Jon Marans The Temperamentals recieved a drasma desk award in 2009
  • Mike Birbiglias My Girlfriends Boyfirend recieved the lucille lortel award in 2011 by the Lucille Lortel Foundation & theater delvelopement fund

THE AWARDS

Steve Ramirez

HERES SOME MORE INFO

WHATS SO

COOL ABOUT

THOSE AWARDS?

  • The OAAA was established in 1891 properly known as Out of home Advertising Association of America
  • OAAA is "the national trade association for the entire out of home (OOH) advertising industry"(Newswire), this includes over 800 members
  • OAAA is made up of 90% of the entire industry
  • the Obie Award presented by the OAAA is the most prestigous for creative excellence
  • the Lucille Lortel awards is held by the Lucille Lortel Foundation & Theater Developement Fund "established in 1986"(News Monitor).

  • The Lucille Lortel foundation is known to also "recognize off broadway theater"(Healy) as a way to preserve its history and had programs that has given millions of USD to NY theater companies
  • they are aslo very big on diversity in theater
  • the drama desk awards were "first awarded in 1955 and are voted on by New York theatre writers and editors, [that] are prestigious in their own right"(Nestruck).
  • The Drama Desk Awards intially gave awards to off broadway and off off broadway porductions when it started in 1956
  • it also went by the name of vernon rice award

Steve Ramirez

Thats it

  • This concludes famous works and reward

Fin

(with my part)

Steve Ramirez

Delilah Vega

Production/ School

  • The Barrow Group offers classes to people of all ages- children, teens, and adults. Regardless of age or abilities, this theater group aims to be inclusive of anyone who would like to engage within their sessions. Through their classes and workshops, the theater group wants to help everyone feel as though acting is easy! With a variety of classes as well as courses, everyone has an opportunity to become involved. Not only does the group offer adult, youth, and online courses, but they also have quarterly classes throughout the year!

PRODUCTION

&

SCHOOL

Adult Courses

  • At The Barrow Group, adult classes are categorized by 3 various levels. Beginner Acting, Intermediate Acting, and Professional Acting, which are all quarterly classes assigned with specific classes to take for each.
  • Not only do these courses provide quarterly classes, but they also offer year long classes for people who want to learn more about acting. Depending on one's prefernce, there are online classes along with in-person classes that come with some policies.
  • So may think these classes are solely restricted to acting since that is the overall motivate of the group. However, The Barrow Group also contains Writing, Directing, On- Camera/Filmmaking, and Specialty programs also!

Adult Courses

Youth Courses

Youth Courses

  • When it comes to The Barrow Group's youth courses it is their goal to make an atmosphere that ensures all students feel as though they are being supported within the classroom. The overall motive they want to achieve with their youth course is to teach them that they too can engage within acting courses that are portrayed as advanced.
  • Though the youth courses are not as extensive compared to the adult classes, there are still really great opportunities for young children to learn how to act! Similarily to the adult courses, youth course are also consisted of 3 categories- Kids, Tweens, and Teens.
  • The Barrow Group's assessment of classes for the youth are composed of Fall/Winter/Spring classes with Summer camps during that particular season. Each group has its own assigned course that are all differentiated based upon the age of the student.

ALUMNI

Delilah Vega

Famous Alumni

Anne Hathaway

"The Barrow Group was really the institution that taught me how to act. I worked with the best teachers, who taught me why less is really more.”

Tony Hale

"So many times, we as actors forget the play of acting. You go into class and everything's like, "Great work": like everything's work. At The Barrow Group, it really came from this other perspective: "This is play." That was a really great time. I would say that was my most significant training."

Poorna Jagannathan

“TBG is where I unlearned how to act and learned how to be me to be more comfortable in my own skin...more able to transition seamlessly between life and the demands of film. That’s why I call The Barrow Group home.”

Brett Gray

"For the first time I've felt that I can let go and be spontaneous...and that could be enough."

Delilah Vega

Reviews

  • 'Awake' - “Racism, homophobia, sexism, police violence, immigration: All of these issues come up in “Awake.”... The show is essentially an earnest prompter for conversations or school discussions” (Vincentelli).

REVIEWS

  • 'The Thing With Feathers' - “Part thriller, part coming-of-age story, “The Thing With Feathers” is about chickens coming home to roost. The play fatally falls apart at the end, but Mr. Organ keeps us entertained for a good long while before that, making us guess and guess again about what, exactly, is going on here” (Hughes).

" 'Abigail’s Party' may be the most uncomfortable comedy in New York right now, and I’d sit through it again in a second. Here, humor and unpleasantness are intertwined, and that leads to laughs — many, many laughs — that are part gleeful and part appalled" (Jaworowski).

YES...and...

HISTORY/ABOUT/MISSION

WORKS

CITED

https://www.nytimes.com/1996/11/10/style/lee-brock-and-seth-barrish.html

https://www.backstage.com/magazine/author/lee-brock/

https://www.barrowgroup.org/acting-school/teachers/seth-barrish/

https://m.imdb.com/name/nm0057592/

https://www.barrowgroup.org/acting-school/classes/#:~:text=At%20the%20heart%20of%20the,founder%20and%20co%2DArtistic%20Director.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2022/02/09/theater/barrow-group-performing-arts-center.amp.html

https://www.hollywoodsoapbox.com/interview-barrow-group-has-become-incubator-for-new-theatrical-talent/

PRODUCTION/SCHOOL/REVIEWS/ALUMNI

https://youtu.be/Prq440-zfc4

https://youtu.be/GZH9LHirADw

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/28/theater/thing-with-feathers-review-scott-organ.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/21/theater/review-awake-barrow-group.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/21/theater/abigails-party-review.html

FAMOUS WORKS/AWARDS/LOCATION

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