Brooklyn Acting Lab

☀️ Last week of school… need after-school plans? We’ve got you! 🎭
Join Brooklyn Acting Lab for PLAY Lab — a creative afternoon experience filled with theater games, storytelling, crafts, movement, and imaginative play for young creators in PreK–4th Grade.
Students will spend the week making friends, building confidence, and PLAYing their way through new adventures — because the creativity at BAL never stops! ✨
📅 June 22–26
📍 56 Windsor Place
⏰ 3–6 PM (school pick-up available!)
Spots are limited — register today through the link in bio 💛

Hey North Slope!

Brooklyn Acting Lab is back at PS 321 this summer! 🎭✨

Looking for a summer experience where your child can create, collaborate, and make unforgettable memories? Trusted by Brooklyn families, BAL is bringing our theatre programs back to the neighborhood with weeks of imaginative play, storytelling, music, movement, and performance!

From magical worlds to musical adventures, young artists will spend their days building confidence, finding their voices, and creating alongside new friends. 💛

Spots are filling — join us this summer at PS 321 for a season full of creativity, connection, and theatre magic! ☀️
📍PS 321 | North Slope
🎟️ Registration link in bio

Caption: ✨ It’s Share Week at Brooklyn Acting Lab! ✨
At BAL, we call our end-of-season presentations shares rather than performances.
Why? Because what matters most to us isn’t just the final product—it’s the creative journey that gets us there.
Throughout the season, our ensemble members work together to create stories inspired by favorite themes, musicals, and imaginative worlds. Through games, improvisation, music, movement, and storytelling, they become the creators of the work they share.
At the end of the session, families are invited into that process through an immersive theatrical experience that celebrates everything students have explored, created, and discovered together.
This week, we’re excited to celebrate the creativity, courage, and collaboration of all our young artists. We can’t wait to share their work with you! 🎭❤️

No school? No problem.

PLAY in a Day (PiAD) is Brooklyn Acting Lab’s creative one-day program designed to keep children engaged, connected, and inspired during school breaks, holidays, and days off.

Every session begins with a new theme that launches students into an immersive storytelling adventure. Through interactive process drama, collaborative games, music, movement, and imaginative play, children don’t just hear a story—they step inside it.

One day they might become explorers on a mysterious island. Another day they might solve a kingdom’s greatest challenge, travel through time, or discover a world filled with magical creatures. Working together as an ensemble, students help shape the story as it unfolds, making choices, solving problems, and creating unforgettable moments along the way.

While they’re having fun, children are also building confidence, creativity, communication skills, collaboration, adaptability, and imaginative thinking.

✨ A new adventure every session
✨ Interactive and immersive process drama
✨ Creative movement, music, and storytelling
✨ Collaborative games and ensemble-building activities
✨ Meaningful social connection through play
✨ A joyful, screen-free day of creativity

And because these adventures are too magical to keep to ourselves, families receive a highlight video capturing the stories, discoveries, and memorable moments created throughout the day.

A single day can become an entire world.

Join us for PLAY in a Day and discover where imagination can take you.

Cardboard, markers, tape, and a room full of creative young artists can become just about anything.

We love making things by hand, building worlds together, and proving that a little imagination goes a long way. 🌈

🎭 BAL Vocabulary: “Ensemble”

Not just a cast.

An ensemble is a group of performers who work together to build a story together—supporting, reacting, and creating something bigger than any one role.

At BAL, we don’t just teach kids to perform.

We teach them to work together.

🎭 Did you hear? We’re doing a Teen Summer Musical this summer!

Grades Rising 7th–11th
August 3rd - August 21st

Step into the spotlight this summer!

Students will rehearse and perform in a fully staged musical production—building songs, scenes, choreography, and ensemble work from first read-through to final bow.
Teens build:
✨ Acting, singing, and dance technique
✨ Confidence and stage presence
✨ Ensemble collaboration skills
✨ Real rehearsal and performance experience

Spots are limited—enroll now to join the cast.

From school to the BAL Studio!🌟

Did you know we offer pickup from select local schools for our after-school programs? That means one less stop for grownups and one more creative afternoon for kids. Join us for theater, community, and plenty of play at BAL!