2025-08-12T10:14:49-05:00 2024-12-31 SE McMASTER & ASSOCIATES PLLC 1825 K STREET NW STE 705 WASHINGTON DC 20006 990 2024-01-01 521812095 THE THEATRE LAB INC % THE ORGANIZATION THEA 2028240449 900 MASSACHUSETTS AVE NW WASHINGTON DC 200014308 Mary Mitchelson TREASURER 2028240449 2025-07-09 true true S E McMaster CPA P00310424 2022235001 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z Mary Mitchelson 900 MASSACHUSETTS AVE NW WASHINGTON DC 200014308 2025924 false X WWW.THEATRELAB.ORG X 1993 DC THE THEATRE LAB SCHOOL OF THE DRAMATIC ARTS IS COMMITTED TO TRANSFORMING LIVES THROUGH THEATRE EDUCATION. 22 20 79 42 0 1132854 1173007 721523 794807 32422 36588 -166941 -154175 1719858 1850227 0 0 0 0 1081799 1224103 0 0 51341 678165 660288 1759964 1884391 -40106 -34164 2543539 2346035 1358404 1195064 1185135 1150971 THE THEATRE LAB PROVIDES CLASSES AND WORKSHOPS TO ADULTS AND YOUTH IN THE AREAS OF ACTING FOR THE STAGE AND SCREEN, DIRECTING, PLAYWRITING, MUSICAL THEATRE, AND DRAMA CRITICISM. THE ORGANIZATION ALSO CONDUCTS EXTENSIVE OUTREACH PROGRAMMATIC AND EDUCATIONAL WORKSHOPS DESIGNED TO PROVIDE REAL LIFE BENEFITS OF THEATRE EDUCATION TO MEMBERS OF TRADITIONALLY UNDERSERVED POPULATIONS: SPECIFICALLY FINANCIALLY DISADVANTAGED YOUTH AND ADULTS, INCARCERATED AND SEVERELY AT-RISK YOUTH, SENIORS, AND HOMELESS WOMEN false false 1652005 721523 The Theatre Lab offers theatre training to children, adults and seniors across the Washington, DC area. Since inception, The Theatre Lab has taught thousands of students at all levels of experience. The Theatre Lab's faculty has grown to include more than 50 of the area's most accomplished professional theatre artists. Major segments of The Theatre Lab's programs are as follows: "Life Stories" outreach - free drama outreach programs for seniors, incarcerated and at-risk youth, veterans and military families, people in addiction recovery, low-income DCPS students, homeless women and children, and other historically underrepresented populations. "Life Stories" participants receive the acting and storytelling training necessary to create original dramatic works for the stage and screen from their life experiences. In an atmosphere of collaboration and creativity, participants develop advanced communication, problem solving, and teamwork skills that translate into success at home, at work, and in the larger community. Most important, they build confidence in themselves as people who have a story worth telling and a voice that deserves to be heard. Youth programs - The Theatre Lab offers popular summer acting camps and musical theatre institutes for kids and teens. The kids' camp is a unique two-week actor training program for children in 1st-6th grade taught by some of Washington's top theatre professionals, and is designed to immerse young artists in the creative process- from learning the basic techniques of realistic acting to developing mime and improvisational skills. The Theatre Lab also offers four-week programs in musical theatre and Shakespeare, culminating in full productions, for children in 7th and 8th grades. The teens' acting institute is a four-week intensive training program for young adults aged 13-19. The program is designed to help teens build fundamental acting skills through classwork and participation in a public performance. The curriculum includes audition seminars, improvisational workshops, voice and movement training, and scene study, as well as special programs designed to give interested students insight into the working of the professional theatre community. The musical theatre institute for teens is a program for 13-19 year-olds, which culminates in a full production of a full-length musical. The program is an intensive four-week training program in which participants rehearse and perform a full musical production. The musical theatre institute is offered twice each summer. The institute provides young artists with intensive voice, movement, and acting training as they explore challenging, socially relevant material from the contemporary musical theatre world. The Theatre Lab also offers a series of afterschool and weekend scene study and TV/film classes for kids and teens year-round. Adult classes - The Theatre Lab offers approximately 80 6-week courses/year for adults in the general population in acting, musical theatre, directing, film and tv acting, playwriting and more. Since 2020, The Theatre Lab has also offered adult 6-week synchronous classes online, approximately 158/year. Honors program - in 2006, The Theatre Lab launched a year-long intensive training program for students interested in a professional acting career. The Honors Conservatory serves 10 students each year. The Theatre Lab is a key partner in the Arts Institute for Creative Advancement, a collective impact initiative of the DC Arts Education Alliance, in which young adults receive training and apprenticeships in technical theatre. In 2024, The Theatre Lab served an enrollment of 1620 students in its adult curriculum, 765 students in its youth programs, and 10 students in its honors program. The Theatre Lab's Life Stories outreach program reached 745 youth and adults. Most of The Theatre Lab's youth classes are available at free or reduced price for financially disadvantaged participants. In 2014, The Theatre Lab inaugurated the Life Stories Institute, a four-day intensive workshop designed to give theatre artists, educators, and service providers from across the country training in the Life Stories curriculum. 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