The Producers' Club is dedicated to artistic community, and to providing its services and facilities in service of artistic community. Most of all we are dedicated to supporting and nurturing those with the vision and will to create. Whether it be for auditions, readings, workshops, or fully realized productions, the Producers' Club provides performance and rehearsal space and support services at reasonable prices. In addition, our friendly, resourceful staff has a genuine interest in facilitating and promoting all the work that is produced here and forming long-lasting, professional relationships with those who call the Producers' Club home. We at the Producers' Club are committed to upholding the traditions of entertainment and innovation inherent in New York's theater community. We believe there truly is no business quite like show business.
The Producers' Club, in the heart of Manhattan’s legendary theater district, opened its doors to the public in 1993. Founded and built by Benjamin Kolbert, an entrepreneur with a deep love for the performing arts, the Producers' Club has been home and proving ground to productions of all sorts. Even in these turbulent times, the Producers' Club maintains the commitment it has always had to the success of every production that is housed here, from the smallest one-man show to a lively musical in the Grand, our largest theater. There is always a new project beginning at The Producers' Club; the traffic of teachers, actors, directors, playwrights, and budding production companies provides countless opportunities to network and form a supportive community that theater artists are happy to call home.
Stop by during business hours (Monday through Friday from 9am-7pm) and meet the people behind the scenes at the Producers' Club who will be happy to provide you with a guided tour of the four unique performance spaces (as well as two spacious rehearsal studios).
The Producers' Club is in operation 7 days a week from 9am until Midnight. Performance and rehearsal spaces are available during these times and are supervised by a resident house manager at all times.
Acting teacher Bob McAndrew started as an acting coach in Los Angeles, where he was hand picked to manage Lucille Ball's renowned talent program. Bob has coached such acting luminaries as Liza Minelli, Jon Voight, Sela Ward, Richard Dreyfuss, Raul Julia, and Chris Cooper. He teaches in Paris, London, Madrid, and New York and has won accolades for his directing. His classes cover film acting, auditioning and casting. He currently teaches group classes in Acting Technique and Scene Study on Tuesdays at the Producers' Club. Bob also teaches private classes.
Shane Ann has been teaching in New York for twenty-four years. Her former students are currently appearing on Broadway, Off-Broadway, in regional theaters, film, and television.
Some of her former students include: Deana Barone, Josh Barrett, Elisa Bocanegra, Billy Crudup, Tate Donovan, Cassandra Freenman, Wood Harris, Creighton James, Maggie Lacey, Dylan McDermott, Debra Messing, Connie Nielsen, Danny Pino, Jeremy Shamos, Daniel Sunjata, Mick Weber, and Jeff Whitty.
Shane Ann teaches a voice and speech program that consists of lessons to develop a resonant, flexible, versatile voice so that the actor has the ability to meet the demands of all types of language, including voie-over copy, commercial copy, television and film scripts, and classical texts. Classes are structured so that each technical tool leads to the next. All of the speech exercises are connected to the voice work. In the Advanced Class, work on Shakespeare's texts is an integral part of the program, with classes on scanning lines, buiding a speech, expressing contrasting ideas, and finding clues in the text.
Alberto Vasquez has worked since 1975 in show business as an actor, writer, teacher, director and producer.
As an actor he has performed on stage, soap operas, film and episodic television. Other stage credits include Off-Broadway: "Leather Heart"; "Eulogy for a Small Time Thief", "Caucasian Chalk Circle", "Street Car Named Desire" and "First Class". On Broadway he appeared in the stage hit "Cuba And His Teddy Bear" with Robert DeNiro, Ralph Macchio and Burt Young. Film credits include: "Zooman" with Louis Gossett, Jr. and Charles S. Dutton. "Family Business" with Sean Connery, Matthew Broderick and Dustin Hoffman; Crocodile Dundee II" with Paul Hogan; "White Hot" with Danny Aiello; David Mamet's "Wag the Dog" (1997) directed by Barry Levinson; Edtv (1999) directed by Ron Howard and a co-starring role with Tim Roth in Guiseppe Tonatore's "The Legend of 1900 (1998). He is in "Michael Clayton" with George Clooney.
Mr. Vasquez teaches acting classes at the Producers' Club on Tuesday evenings from 7-10pm.
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Anthony has conducted group acting classes and private coaching for actors for over twenty-five years in New York. His classes are designed to "do work that gets work" ad follow no particular recipe. As Stanislavski said, "No recipes, whatever works." THe actor-training is an amalgam of Anthony's work with Peter Brook, Jerzy Grotowski, Lee Strasberg, Harold CLurman--weekly classes involve monologues, improvisatio, scene study, and on-camera work on current film and television sides. Believing that experience is the best teacher, the classes are "doing classes", not "sitting-lot-and-watching-and-listening-to-the-teacher-talk classes." Anthony is thrilled that so many of his students have gone on to successful careers onstage and in film and television, including Jenifer Aniston, Ellen Pompeo (Grey's Anatomy), Ian Somerhalder (lost), Esai Morales (NYPD Blue, The Cure), Lisa Vidal (Numb3rs), Cedric Sanders (The Ten), and many others.
Robert Haufrect is currently on the staff of the School of Visual Arts, where he teaches acting. He has taught and coached at the NY School of Acting (Singapore) and taught at Michael Howard Studios. As an actor, he has worked in film, on TV and, of course, theater.
For man years he was the Managing Director of the Common Basis Theatre, where he acted, directed, and produced (including a holocaust play that was performed in Berlin). Robert's is a small, intimate class with specific attention directed towards individual growth in the development of the craft. The class basically employs sense memory and personalizes exercises which are integrated into monologues and scene work as a means to truthful, intuitive, and spontaneous performance.
He has also initiated a monthly on-camera audition practice.
There is an on-going professional class--all evels of experience are welcome.
Private coaching is also available.
Richard Kline grew up New York City, attended Queens College and has a Masters in Theatre from Northwestern University. He is known to millions of TV watchers as 'Larry' on the classic sitcom Three's Company, now enjoying cult status on Nick-At-Nite. For the same Nickelodeon network he played Noah's dad on the series Noah Knows Best. He co-starred on NBC's Inside Schwartz playing the father of Breckin Meyer. He appeared as Capt. E.J. Smith in the South Bay Civic Light Opera's 10th anniversary production of Titanic. His most recent Los Angeles stage appearance was opposite Annie Potts (Designing Women) in DIVA at the Pasadena Playhouse and has performed the solo show Boychik written by Richard Krevolin at New York's Theatre Four and at many venues in Los Angeles. (For more information on Richard's credits, click here.)
As a director, Richard won the LA Drama Critics Circle Award for his direction of Noel Coward's Present Laughter. He has directed Bruce Davison, Burt Reynolds and Billy Connolly in their television series as well as directing NBC weatherman Fritz Coleman in his one-man show It's Me! Dad! both for the stage and television. Other directing credits include Rumors(with Bernie Koppel), Rough Crossing, The Great Sebastians, Breaking Legs(with Pat Harrington), and the Theatre League tour of Leader of the Pack. In April 2006, he directed the solo show, Computer Geek at Chicago's Improv Olympic.
Richard has relocated to the East Coast, as of September 2005. He currently teaches acting workshops for both stage and televison at The Producers' Club in New York City and is also available for private coaching.
Silkie O-Ishi is a director, drama coach, and acting teacher whe graduated from the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York, recieving training from the late Sanford Meisner, pioneer Method teacher and member of the original Group Theater. For the past decade, she has been teaching, carrying on the work of the Meisner Method. She is also a founder and Guild Mistress for the Bardic Arts Guild (in affiliation with the Druidic Society of Great Britain) as well as the Resident Director for the Hibernian Theater Company. In terms of her work as an instructor, Silkie says, "My job as an acting teacher is to help bring forth truthful behaviors from within the framework of imaginary circumstances, thus eliminating preconcieved line readings. Through a series of specific exercises, the actor will learn to avoid calculated results; rather the actor strengthens intuitive talents to build an organic, spontaneous performance that comes from an emotional and visceral grasp of the text."
When you rent a theater or rehearsal space at The Producers' Club, you can be sure that you are in good hands. The license fee includes:
The Sonnet features a thrust stage, padded seats, over 24 lamps, dimmer board, rear traveler, dressing rooms, and a CD/tape system with speakers. The Sonnet's ¾ round seating makes it a great space for more intimate work, perfect for a one-person show or an evening of monologues.
The Royal is a fifty-five seat theater with a 15' x 20' stage, tech booth, over 30 lamps, dimmer board, rear traveler, and CD/tape system with speakers and dressing room. Stadium-style seating ensures a great view of the stage, whether you are in the front or the back row.
An exposed brick wall gives The Crowne, a seventy seat theater, a unique flair. With a 17' x 17' stage, tech booth, over 30 lamps, dimmer board, CD/tape system with speakers, rear traveler and a large dressing room, The Crown can accommodate larger casts and houses while maintaining its intimate feel.
This theater's name speaks for itself--featuring a 20' x 20' proscenium stage with drape, the Grand has 99 to 120 seats, tech booth, over 50 lamps, dimmer board, rear traveler, CD/tape system with speakers, and a large dressing room with private bathroom. Its deep stage and large house give the Grand the feel of an Off-Broadway house; it is a perfect venue for musical productions and shows with larger ensembles.
Located on the main floor of the Producers' Club, this black box space features 20 lights with dimmers and is conducive to classes, large rehearsals, or experimental theater.
Located on the main floor of the Producers' Club, this studio space features curtains, a wall of large mirrors, a piano, and track lighting with dimmers. Great space for classes and large-cast rehearsal needs.
Newly rennovated, with hardwood floor, fully-stocked bar, and a cabaret-style stage, the Iluras Lounge is the perfect place for receptions, parties, screenings, and small-scale performances.
The Producers’ Club now offers use of its cabaret stage (located in the Iluras Lounge) for small scale performances (one or two man shows, music, comedy, etc. ). Booking is free--the Producers’ Club requires only a percentage of your income from ticket sales. Space must be booked 3 weeks in advance. Includes all amenities included in standard rental agreement. Call for more information.