So You Think You Can Give

When Deb Gottesman and her partners opened a small theatre coaching program for striving actors 25 years ago, she couldn't imagine what The Theatre Lab would eventually become: an inclusive theatre training community with services that reach far beyond the stage. With an emphasis on "access" to anyone with an interest in performance, The Theatre Lab is now the home to both a major scholarship program providing theatre training to low-income students, and a Life Stories program which provides an opportunity for marginalized people to finally get a chance to tell their stories. Working with senior citizens, returning veterans, women experiencing homelessness and addiction, incarcerated youth, and other people who generally don't have a chance to speak openly about their lives, the Theatre Lab's Life Stories program provides both a platform for expression as well as artistic training to those whom "theatre training" can seem beyond reach. The Theatre Lab relies on funding from various resourc