Scenes for an episode of a popular HBO series were filmed on the campus of a SUNY school Tuesday.
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Scenes for an episode of the HBO series Girls were filmed at a few locations on the campus of the State University of New York at New Paltz. There were no talking parts for the roughly 40 SUNY New Paltz students and staff who were extras. Girls’ creator and star Lena Dunham was in the director’s chair. Regina Heyman is a producer for the show.
“We were scripted to shoot at University of Iowa in Iowa City,” says Heyman. “And we wanted to try and do it in New York where we have our 30 percent tax credit so we scouted a lot of universities in New York State, and SUNY New Paltz seemed to be the best stand in for Iowa.”
Which means the Shawangunk mountains will not make the cut.
