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18 Sep

Sequoia Sellinger is a NYC based composer, performer, musical director, curator, and stand-up comedian. She is a recent college graduate from SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Music. Being a multidisciplinary artist she has created music/sound design for a number of plays, musicals, dance, film, performance art, video art, pop artists, and for her band, Slow Loris. Recent works include a sci-fi inspired folk musical Gravity of Me Gone that premiered this summer as a part of ANT Fest at Ars Nova, as well as Imogen, a new musical that premiered at SUNY Purchase this past Spring. She has been a composer in residence at Fontainebleau Conservatoire in France, Seal Bay Festival in Maine, at John Zorn's The Stone, as well as Imani Winds Festival at Mannes. For more please check out: www.sequoiasellinger.com   Credits: The Addams Family: Music Director...

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18 Sep

MICHAEL T. WILLIAMS is a Brooklyn and Philadelphia-based theatre maker and arts educator. He is co-founder of AntiGravity Theatre Project, as well as a creator with the company. With AntiGravity and solo Michael has worked with: La Mama ETC, Williamstown Theatre Festival, FringeArts, Pig Iron Theatre Company, MCC Theatre, Trinity Rep, The Winged Cranes Productions (Madrid), El Relo Productions (Madrid), Soho Rep, Blood from a Turnip, 95 Empire, Sleeping Weazel and in Arena Stage's Downstairs Series for New Work and Voices of Now Festival. Michael has taught for the Brown University/Rhode Island School of Design CoLAB, the City University of New York, and University of the Arts, in addition teaching for regional theatre companies and arts education organizations. He is the recipient of the Weston Award for Excellence in Directing for William Finn and James Lapine's A New Brain (2009, Brown University) and the Victims' Rights Award for his work with the RI Coalition Against Domestic Violence on Behind Closed Doors, an awareness play. In 2011, Michael was the Bob Alexander Community Engagement Fellow in the Allen Lee Hughes Fellowship Program at Arena Stage, where he taught, directed and devised new, ensemble-based work in the DC public schools. From 2011 to 2013, Michael served as the Education Outreach Coordinator at Trinity Repertory Company. MFA...

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18 Sep

Erin Page is excited to work with the Brooklyn Acting Lab. A graduate majoring in theater, from the Los Angeles County High School of the Arts and Eugene Lang College at the New School University, Erin has studied and participated in theater productions since she was a child. Erin has also worked as an intern for Mike Daisey's productions of "Our Man in Havana" and "Why We Hate Art" at the Ojai Playwrights Conference. Erin has worked as a stage manager at the Los Angeles Fringe Festival, and currently for Park Boulevard Productions. She also spends her time as an instructor for the " I Have a Dream" Foundation in Harlem, where she received a grant for her work developing a program to use theater as a platform for increased awareness and discussion of women's issues. This past spring, Erin played Maria in Eugene Lange's production of Twelfth Night and she is a member of The Screen Actors Guild. She hopes to continue her work in theater and on the stage.   Credits: Cinderalla: Stage Manager...

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14 Aug

Rebecca is a director, teaching artist, and community organizer. After recently completing her Master's in Arts Politics from New York University's Tisch School of The Arts, she has been focused on continue to work in the intersection of theater, education, entertainment and community engagement. Prior to New York, she received her Bachelor's of Arts in Theater, summa cum laude from UCLA's School of Theater, Film, and Television. While in undergraduate she was the Director of Education for her student theater company, placing her as a traveling teaching artist throughout the greater Los Angeles Area. In the interim between UCLA and NYU, Rebecca worked in Kenya, South Africa, Mexico and Costa Rica with Global Visions International as a English-Learner teacher, as well as a teaching artist and directed several plays with her students. Upon returning to the United States in 2016, she co-founded After Hours Theatre Company, that continues to produce full-length musicals in Los Angeles. She is incredibly excited to join the team at BAL and continue bringing theater to students around New York!   Credits: Cinderalla: Assistant Director...

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14 Aug

Taylor Rae Almonte is a New York based performer who has worked professionally in film, television and on stage. She trained at New York University Tisch School of the Arts, with a focus on Experimental Theatre and Musical Theatre, and The Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London, with a focus on Shakespeare in Performance. Most recently, she worked alongside Richard Gere in Oren Moverman’s newest film “The Dinner” which recently premiered at TriBeCa Film Festival. She has also toured nationally, originating the role of Erika Juno/Rockstar Barbie in a children’s musical entitled, “Barbies Rock N’Royals.” When she is not performing or teaching, Taylor designs websites for performers at TRA-Websites and spends time with her three nieces (who are also her best friends). She assisted with the Improv and Audition Technique Workshop this past summer and is thrilled to be assisting directing "The Addams Family", working with the Improv Troupe at PS. 58 and directing a new Improv Class at PS.11's Behan Academy!   Credits: The Addams Family: Assistant Director & Stage Manager...

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10 Jul

Danielle is thrilled to be choreographing “The Wizard of Oz” for BAL this summer! She has had the good fortune to work all over the country as a performer, teacher, director and choreographer. Danielle’s recent performing credits include “The Pajama Game” and “Jerry’s Girls” at the Gallery Players here in Park Slope, “Motel Rasdell” directed by Tony Award winner Michele Pawk and The Evil Queen in “Snow White and the Battle for Pittsburgh”at the Heights Players. Other performing credits include: Lisa and u/s for Sophie in the original Las Vegas Company of “Mamma Mia!,” Dorothy in “The Wizard of Oz” (TUTS in Houston), Velma Kelly in “Chicago”, Sally Bowles in “Cabaret”, Erma in “Anything Goes” directed by Tony nominee Marcia Milgrom Dodge and the Snow Queen in “Snow Queen” for the late film director Garry Marshall. Danielle’s New York City teaching experience includes instruction in music theatre, dance, acting and choreography with various companies throughout the city including Applause, Stagecoach and New York Kids Club. Other teaching experience includes heading the musical theatre instruction for a number of camps and afterschool enrichment programs in Vero Beach, Florida; jazz, tap, lyrical and hip hop instructor and choreographer for StarStruck Performing Arts...

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10 Jul

Brad Ogden is an actor and director who approaches all work like it's new. He is interested in reimagining time-tested stories, developing new work, and making ensemble-driven theatre from scratch. He is enthusiastic about dramaturgy and driven by theatre's ability to facilitate discourse and catalyze social change. Brad is a proud member of Actors' Equity. He shares a 2015 Barrymore Award for Outstanding Ensemble in a Play with the cast of Passage Theatre Company's world premiere production of Little Rock. He holds a BFA in Theatre, with a concentration in Directing, from University of the Arts. www.brad-ogden.com   Credits: Wizard of Oz: Director...

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20 Oct

Tessa Barlow-Ochshorn is a recent graduate of Tufts University with a B.A. in history and drama. A Brooklyn native, she is excited to be creating theatre in the city she loves. Her performance background is in classical and physical theater, clown and mime. Her other work at Tufts and beyond has centered on working with people of all ages to make vibrant, movement-based theater. She has assistant directed with Piper Theatre (Brooklyn), worked Shakespeare at the Grahamstown Theatre Festival (South Africa) and led mime and storytelling workshops with HYPE! Mimes, the country’s only all-undergraduate mime troupe (Boston). She is ecstatic to be working with BAL!   Credits: Peter Pan: Assistant Director...

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20 Oct

Stoddard Blackall is a pianist, singer & composer, with a degree in Songwriting from Berklee College of Music (2010), and composing accolades from the Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop (2015).  Stoddard is a songwriter for Sunny Songsters Children’s Entertainers, and a member of AOFine, an NY-based rock and roll band.  Check out our newly released record, Bunnyland on Spotify and Apple Music.  Stoddard has performed and accompanied musical improv since 2010, with the People’s Improv Theater, Magnet, UCB, and traveling Phony Awards comedy show, “Broadway’s Next Hit Musical”. Credits: Cinderalla: Music Director Peter Pan: Music Director Singin' In The Rain: Music Director...

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20 Oct

Megan Fitzgerald is an actress, teaching artist, and recent New York transplant from California. She graduated with a degree in Theatre from UCLA. Megan has been involved in arts education since she was a teenager, working with companies such as  the Youth Theatre Company (Walnut Creek, CA), Bay Area Children's Theatre, UCLA Artsbridge, and the Geffen Playhouse (Los Angeles, CA). During her time at UCLA Megan co-managed Act III Theatre Ensemble, producing over a dozen projects on campus. She has also associate produced with Lexikat Artists and Festival of New American Musicals. Megan is the co-founder of By the Kids, For the Kids, a student-produced and performed philanthropy program based out of her hometown of Walnut Creek, CA. Credits: Seussical Jr. Assistant Director Cinderalla: Director Peter Pan: Choreographer...

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