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23 Feb

Rachel Berkman is a NY based actor, vocalist and teaching artist, with a passion for working with children. Rachel attended  The University of The Arts where she earned a BFA in Musical Theatre. Originally from Middletown NY, Rachel is a lead vocalist for two New York based bands where she regularly performs around the Hudson Valley area. She is currently cast in Luna Gayle at Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble where she will be playing the role of Karlie - and is also a part of the Mt. Gretna Concert series. Previously to joining the BAL Creative Team, Rachel was most recently working as a teaching artist at Theatre Horizon teaching children and adults on the autism Spectrum....

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03 Jan

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!...

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06 Dec

Grace Schiraldi is a teaching artist who uses theatre games, interactive storytelling, performance and sensory-based engagements to create moments of shared joy. She believes anyone of any age and ability can benefit from the human interactions and emotional release participant-centered applied theatre practices can create. Grace is an avid fan of Shakespeare and was a Senior Docent at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. She feels the Bard’s work can be accessible to all. Grace has worked with a variety of participants including: early learners, elementary and high school students, LGBTQ emerging adults, both incarcerated formerly incarcerated youth and adults, and older adults with dementia. She holds a Masters in Applied Theatre from CUNY-School of Professional Studies and a BA in Literature and Rhetoric from Binghamton University. Her coursework included Play-building, Theatre in Education, Co-intentional Directing, Theatre of the Oppressed, Process Dramas and Interactive Storytelling. Grace is married (to Vinny Schiraldi) with two children. Her daughter is a public defender and her son is a zookeeper. She grew up in Islip, Long Island and loves the beach. Previously, Grace owned and operated Synapse Communications, LLC a marketing and advertising company. Grace is super excited to be a part of...

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22 Nov

Originally from Texas, Alexandra graduated from the University of Evansville in Indiana where she studied Theatre Performance. At UE, she played Medium Alison in the collegiate premiere of Fun Home and choreographed Spring Awakening. She has acted professionally at Theatre at Monmouth, where she also taught summer Shakespeare camps. Alexandra is thrilled to be in NYC pursuing acting and choreography, and she's especially excited to be working with all the great kids at BAL. Imagination is the most important part of theatre, and no one does imagination better than kids!...

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25 Oct

Lauren grew up in Scotch Plains, New Jersey. As an actor: Lauren has performed from H.E.R.E. to the Kennedy Center. Favorite roles include Joan in Elaine May's The Way of All Fish,  Jill in Butterflies Are Free and Lala in The Last Night of Ballyhoo. Other appearances include Caryl Churchill's The Skriker (Kennedy Center)  Tango 'Till They're Sore (The Flea Theater), and Keanu Reeves Saves the Universe (P.I.T.). Film & TV credits include The Following (Fox), Ten Thousand Saints (Ethan Hawke, Asa Butterfield & Hailee Steinfeld), the mockumentary The Royal We, and being famously cut as Gilda Radner from Chapter 27, starring Jared Leto. As a writer: As a playwright, Lauren wrote the one-act The Onion: First Dates, which was mounted as part of The Southern Slam Festival at the Warehouse Theater, SC, (published in The Louisville Review) which she also appeared in. Lauren is currently working on a full-length play about George Burns and Gracie Allen, The Raconteurs: A Story of George Burns & Gracie Allen  (Semifinalist 2018 The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center Playwrights Conference) and recently appeared in an industry reading as Gracie Allen.  Lauren is also a published essayist on Burns & Allen (for the New England Vintage Film Soc) and has written for Forcesofgeek.com & TRAVALANCHE on comedy & pop-culture. Currently, Lauren is...

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25 Oct

Jennifer began dancing at the age of three and has performed and competed in all styles of dance including musical theatre, tap, jazz, contemporary, ballet, pointe, and hip hop.  She has performed in many musicals including The Sound of Music, The Music Man, Cinderella, and Annie, as well as classical ballets including Nutcracker, Cinderella, Giselle, and Don Quixote.  Jennifer has dual Bachelor of Arts Degrees from The Ohio State University in Film Studies and Strategic Communications, and was president of a student organization called Dance Connection where she choreographed over 24 dances during her time in college.  She has worked in film, commercial, and television production, been a Hogwarts student at Universal Studios Hollywood, and worked with The Today Show in London during her summer study abroad.  Originally from Orange County, California, she has a wide variety of experience teaching and choreographing at multiple dance studios to students age three to 63.  Upon moving to New York City in July, Jennifer was accepted to the Broadway Choreography Intensive with Dance Lab New York under the leadership of Josh Prince.  Jennifer is excited to engage her students in fun and creative movement, and looks forward to sharing her passion and love for dance...

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25 Oct

Hailing from Washington, DC, Rachel Leigh Dolan, is an award winning choreographer, master dance teaching artist, and performer with numerous New York, DC and Regional Theatre credits. Upon relocating to New York City in 2018, she joined choreographer Denis Jones in the Broadway Dance Lab for "Tootsie," as well as a choreography presentation for the Broadway bound show, "Chasing Rainbows." Rachel is the Associate Choreographer for two brand new, interactive dance shows, “Humanity” and “Stages” with Step One Dance Company currently touring on Holland America Line. She is a proud member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, and a two-time Helen Hayes Award Recipient for Outstanding Choreography in a Musical. Making her professional performance debut at 14 years old in Debbie Allen's "Dreams" at the Kennedy Center, she was honored to performed alongside Ms. Allen again in 2002 in "Pearl," and spent two summers training at the Debbie Allen Dance Academy in Los Angeles. Having trained in all forms of dance, Rachel studied with the Dance Theatre of Harlem Dance Residency Program, Steps on Broadway, Broadway Dance Center, and New York City Dance Alliance. She studied Journalism at Fordham University at Lincoln Center, and is a published writer, having free-...

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25 Oct

Kay Clark is a Tisch NYU graduate musical theatre writing alum currently studying Theatre Arts Education at Columbia University. She is an ASCAP award winning musical theatre composer and performer with credits in venues like Two Rivers theatre, Don't Tell Mama, 54 Below, Tisch Blackbox, The Duplex, and Roosevelt Island Dance Alliance to name a few. She is an educator with over ten years of educational experience in both private and public school formats. Her passion lies in developing the whole child through artistic and creative exploration. She is thrilled to join the BAL team....

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29 Jul

Allison Sandler is so excited to be working with BAL! Originally from Tampa, Florida,  Allison moved to New York City to attend NYU Tisch to study theatre and producing. When she isn't performing, she is teaching Hebrew and fitness around the city....

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15 Jul

Zohar Fuller is a theater director and educator based in Brooklyn. Her latest NYC directing credits include Lunch at the Akropolis at Emerging Artists Theatre, and assisting Molly Smith on The Originalist at 59E59 Theater. In Boston, Zohar worked for four years with The Theater Offensive’s LGBTQ youth theater troupe called True Colors. Zohar has taught theater at Boston University, afterschool programs, and at summer camps. Boston University credits include The Wonderful World of Dissocia, Cloud 9, God’s Ear, Uncommon Women and Others, The Shape of Things, Every Piece of Me, and Blue/Orange. Zohar has worked on productions at The Public Theater, Arena Stage, Dixon Place, Company One, and Berkshire Theatre Group. MFA in Directing at Boston University. Learn more at Zoharfuller.com....

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