BARS 4 IS OPEN FOR APPLICATIONS! APPLY FOR BARS WORKSHOP SESSION 4 HERE!
For the rappers, actors, poets, performers, orators, playwrights and song birds: BARS is where verse and theater come together. Come create, learn, develop & innovate firmly at the center. The poetry of speech is what brings it all together. If that is your sweet spot, we think you should enter.
THE #BARS WORKSHOP 4th SESSION
HOSTED BY THE PUBLIC THEATER
MONDAYS/THURSDAYS 5-9pm | JUNE 25TH – AUG 20th
The #BARS Workshop is a lab series created by artists Rafael Casal & Daveed Diggs, to serve as a space for artists to investigate the intersection between contemporary verse and Theater. The first session of #BARS concluded in June 2016, punctuated by the release of the first installment of a video series called the #BARS MIXTAPE MUSICAL MEDLEY, which received high praise from ELLE, TIME, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY, TEEN VOGUE, SLATE & more! Casal & Diggs then teamed up with New York’s The Public Theater to present SESSION 2 of the #BARS workshop, which began July 18th and ended with the filming of the #BARS MEDLEY VOL. 2, which took the artistry to a whole new level, and shot across the internet via spotlights from NPR, Broadway.com, Huffinton Post, Time Out New York, Playbill etc. Now, in June of 2018, we are happy to announce that we are entering into our FOURTH season of BARS at the Public Theater with BARS WORKSHOP VOL. 4!
DEADLINE IS JUNE 8TH @ MIDNIGHT ET
“SETS THE BAR VERY HIGH”
– TIME.COM
“The Breeding ground
for Broadway’s next
Hip Hop Hope”
– (RAP)GENIUS.COM
“ASTOUNDING and gloriously fun”
– ELLE MAGAZINE
FOR NON-APPLICANTS, WE HAVE 2 WAYS FOR TO ENGAGE WITH BARS THIS SUMMER ;
THE LAB & THE MEDLEY
“Rafael Casal and Daveed Diggs are geniuses of verse drama, hip hop artists working in the field that Shakespeare pioneered. They are rooted in history, fiercely of the moment, and busy creating the future. The Public is proud to give them a home.”
– Oskar Eustis
Artistic Director, The Public Theater
SESSION 1
SESSION 2
SESSION 3
COMING SOON
“MOST IMPRESSIVE”
– SLATE
“AWESOME” AND
“A TREAT””
– CNN
“GAME. CHANGER.”
– Daryl Eisenberg, CSA
DE CASTING, NYC
QUESTIONS?
BARSWORKSHOPNYC@GMAIL.COM
