For over 5 years, Brandon has been a noteworthy improviser in NYC’s comedy scene with the Upright Citizens Brigade. He can also be found performing with the Story Pirates for school age children around the country. When he’s not making people laugh, you can find Brandon playing board games with his roommates or fantasy football with his friends from college. ...
Paris Adkins is an actor, improviser and comedy writer based in NYC. She has been a professional film and TV actor since she was 8 years old, training under Anthony Abeson, Marjorie Morhaim, and more. She has performed at UCB, hosted a monthly variety show, and performed on several sketch comedy teams around the city. She is overjoyed to be working with Brooklyn Acting Lab, and is overjoyed to spread the knowledge she has gained of acting and comedy to future creatives....
Amber has been singing since she was a little girl, sitting in the picture window of the house where she grew up in Cleveland, Ohio. She believes that everyone has a voice, you just have to find your song! Classically trained in music and theater at Fordham College Lincoln Center, she has traveled the world performing with the various productions including the North American tour of Jesus Christ Superstar and Disney Cruise Lines’ The Lion King. Amber had the honor of beginning her teaching career teaching musical theater at The Harlem School of the Arts and Barnard College's Girl Scouts program in 2007. She immediately recognized her passion for connecting with young people and learning from their unfiltered whimsy & imagination. Amber continued teaching children’s theater in Los Angeles at The Adderley School for the Performing Arts and Upstage Theatre School. Here she began her own private studio for voice & acting lessons, instructing both children & adults citywide. In 2014, Amber began touring with It Gets Better, a project of the Gay Men's Chorus of San Francisco, traveling to communities nationwide to produce a week of educational workshops in schools focusing on a message of anti-bullying & inclusion. This was a...
Natalie Young is a multi-disciplinary theatre artist and educator based in NYC. She holds a Bachelor of Music in Music Theatre Vocal Performance with a minor in Applied Theatre from NYU. Natalie has over 15 years of professional performance experience, specializing in musical theatre and theatre for young audiences. Additionally, she has over 5 years of experience teaching voice and basic musicianship to folks of all ages and abilities. Her collaborative praxis includes applied theatre curriculum development & facilitation, dramaturgy & new work development, and performance. Natalie is passionate about theater as a resource for comprehensive education, community engagement & organizing, and socio-cultural investigation. As a disabled performer, Natalie is an avid advocate for accessibility and representation in creative and administrative arts environments....
One of Coral Palmon’s favorite things about teaching kids theatre is that it allows her to stay in touch with the sense of play and joy that comes so naturally to those wonderful little humans. Seeing the confidence and creativity that develops from this collaborative art form inspires her every single day, and she has dedicated the last seven years of her life to cultivating those values in the mini humans that often prove to be just as much teachers as learners. Coral graduated with a Theatre degree from the University of Southern California, where she founded an a cappella group as well as a weekly theatre program with neighboring public elementary schools. In 2015, Coral produced the 30th Annual Children’s Festival of the Arts at Paramount Studios, where she integrated a theatrical element to a festival that had prior been predominantly based in the fine arts. Since then, she has taught theatre with Acting Adventures, the Fox Studios Child Development Center, and Troy Camp. Coral is currently pursuing her MA in Educational Theatre at Adelphi University, with the goal of becoming a drama teacher and one day starting up her own after school theatre program. Coral is passionate about traveling, finding...
Rachel Chada is a Brooklyn-based performer, writer, teaching artist, and mozzarella stick enthusiast. Currently, Rachel is a house team performer at the Upright Citizen’s Brigade Theatre and an actor for the Boogiemanja sketch program. You can catch her hosting a monthly show for FRIGID New York at Under St. Marks Theatre or performing at comedy clubs around the city. Before moving to New York, Rachel coached competitive acting and improv through the National Forensics League for the nationally ranked Desert Vista High School in Arizona. There, she unlocked a passion for teaching and working with young performers that brought her to BAL!...
Sarah Kahn is a New York-based singer, director, and educator. She currently serves as the choral director at New Voices School of Academic and Creative Arts here in Brooklyn, where she most recently music directed Legally Blonde. She is a graduate of New York University with a B.M. in Music Education and a minor in Business of Entertainment, Media, and Technology. At NYU, she led the revitalization of the education-focused student theater group, A Class Act. With this group, she directed Jason Robert Brown and Alfred Uhrie's Parade, as well as performed in Party Worth Crashing and The Addams Family. Her music direction credits include James and the Giant Peach, Into the Woods Jr., and Les Mis. A self-proclaimed choral nerd, Sarah has sung in groups including the NYU Jazz Choir which performed on Good Morning America and toured through Japan. She has been inspired by countless arts educators throughout her life and hopes to bring arts education to as many students as possible....
Laura Bright is a singer, actor, and musician. She graduated from NYU with a B.M. in Vocal Performance/Music Theatre and a minor in Educational Theatre, which fueled her love of music and arts education. Her professional performance credits include Brigitta in The Sound of Recovery Music (RR Productions) and The Buddy Holly Story (North Carolina Theatre). She also served as the Assistant Music Director for West 4th Stage Co.’s production of Urinetown (dir. Taylor Haven Holt) and the Music Director for the Steinhardt Sings web-series and corresponding live concert at Feinstein’s/54 Below. A big advocate for arts education in all fields, Laura also worked at a summer visual arts camp back home in North Carolina for three years. For more information, visit laura-bright.com....
Ben Boecker is a singer-songwriter, teaching artist, and voice teacher living and working in New York City. His full-length musical, “Spellbound! A Perfect Musical Fairytale” (NMI Search For New Musicals Grand Prize Winner 2016, Disney/NMI New Voices Award 2016) has been developed at the BMI Workshop, Andrew Lippas’ Writers’ Bloc, and Ken Davenport's Writers' Group. Ben has worked as an NYC teaching artist for five years with companies including TADA!, City Center, Usdan Arts Camp, Wingspan Arts, A Class Act, and the Open Hydrant Theater Company (The First Equity Theater Company in the Bronx.) Ben has performed multiple times at 54 Below, Birdland, and the Hunterdon Hills Playhouse in NJ. He is an Adjunct Faculty member at the Calhoun School, a proud member of the BMI Advanced Musical Theater Writing Workshop and a member of the Dramatists Guild. benboecker.com...
Kat Lee is an actively performing musician and composer who grew up moving around the world. Having grown up in Asia and Europe, her love for all kind of music is vast, with an emphasis on improvised music, songwriting and classics. She currently resides in Brooklyn, NY. She has performed with her band, Tiny Gun and with other musical groups all along the east coast. Her debut album "Crazy, I Can Be," will be out October 2018 and her solo EP will follow shortly afterwards. Kat is a New School graduate, where she received her BFA in Vocal Performance from The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music, and her BA in Media/Communications from Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts. She has been teaching private voice and guitar lessons and has a passion for hands on teaching with an emphasis on vocal technique, improvisation and composition....