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01 Dec

Lizanne Hart is a graphic designer and website developer. Her career has been a 25-year journey through the world of communications and graphic design. She has worked at a museum, consulted for a celebrated art collection in Prague, and marketed literature for a high-profile American book publisher in New York. She also served as head of communications for a Manhattan performing arts center. These experiences sparked a longing to explore the creative aspects of how communications and design can be used to reinforce missions. As a designer, Lizanne uses all of her cumulative experience, insights, and creativity to help her clients tell their story, and to invite others to support them, buy goods or participate in their vision. For more information, please visit lizannehart.com....

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14 Nov

Rebecca Zola is a performing musician, educator, and composer from Lexington, Massachusetts.  She has performed with her band, Zolaband, and with other musical groups around New York City, New England, and internationally in Switzerland at the Bern International Jazz Festival and in Israel.  She has released an EP independently of her own music, called "Before and After," and is currently working on her first full-length album.  Rebecca recently graduated from The New School, where she received her BFA in Vocal Performance from The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music, as well as her BA in Arts in Context from Eugene Lang College.  She has been teaching private voice lessons as well as music theory and jazz improvisation for the past three years, and is also the music teacher at the Cobble Hill Playschool.  Rebecca is currently based in Kensington, Brooklyn, where she lives with her cat, Nina....

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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

LISA KITCHENS. A Brooklyn based actor and theatre artist, she has performed Off Broadway, Regionally and Internationally. She has been a part of many developmental workshops, including devised, experimental performance pieces as an actor and director. Some highlights include, adapting and directing a seven person Richard II, performing at the Stanisklavski Festival at the Moscow Art Theater, creating a solo performance piece and performing in her sister, Emily's, original play in their Georgia home. Education: MFA from American Conservatory Theatre and BFA from University of Evansville....

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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

Collin is happy to return to Brooklyn Acting Lab! As a performer, he has worked professionally with the Adirondack Shakespeare Company, Gorilla Rep, Horse Trade, Underling Productions, and Toms River Shakespeare Festival. His plays have been workshopped and produced by Stable Cable Lab Co and Adaptive Arts, and his short, the piano play, can be found in issue 001 of the Dionysian. He has taught various courses on theater at Brooklyn College, with the Town Hall, and at Brooklyn Acting Lab (formerly Young Players Theater). He holds a BFA in Acting (with Honors) and a BFA in Creative Writing from Brooklyn College. He is currently an MFA in Playwriting candidate at the New School, anticipating graduation in 2019....

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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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17 Jul

During the school year Megan Nicholson MacRae is a student at Trent University studying Psychology and International Development. This summer she is working at Brooklyn Acting Lab as both an Assistant Director and Aftercare teacher. Megan spent the majority of her adolescent years involved in Musical Theatre; this led her to see Musical Theatre as an agent of growth. During her gap year she moved to Tokyo, where she taught at Gymboree Play and Music, facilitating learning through music and action for children ages 0 – 5. Currently, Megan plans to continue with singing, acting, and dancing, along with her full-time studies....

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