Welcome to the Neighborhood Playhouse Junior Acting School!
Acting Training for Youths & Teens ~ Discover Your Creativity & Talent
Classes for our popular Saturday programs are filling up fast. Accepting applications and setting up interviews now.
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As a legacy of the Lewisohn Sisters, The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre sponsors the Junior School with an acting program catered to the young actor, 2nd-12th grades. Modeled after the adult conservatory, The Junior School trains all its students in the core principles of acting, applying techniques and skills learned to various classes in singing, movement/dance, scene study, monologues, voice & diction, stage combat, Shakespeare, acting for film & television, commercials, voice overs, auditioning, improvisation and more--giving students complete actor training and the skills needed to be creative and competitive. NP Junior Actor training helps develop young minds, bodies, and voices; and in the process, students learn to be selfless, compassionate, and generous people.
Acting Training for Youths & Teens ~ Discover Your Creativity & Talent
Classes for our popular Saturday programs are filling up fast. Accepting applications and setting up interviews now.
Click here for an application.
As a legacy of the Lewisohn Sisters, The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre sponsors the Junior School with an acting program catered to the young actor, 2nd-12th grades. Modeled after the adult conservatory, The Junior School trains all its students in the core principles of acting, applying techniques and skills learned to various classes in singing, movement/dance, scene study, monologues, voice & diction, stage combat, Shakespeare, acting for film & television, commercials, voice overs, auditioning, improvisation and more--giving students complete actor training and the skills needed to be creative and competitive. NP Junior Actor training helps develop young minds, bodies, and voices; and in the process, students learn to be selfless, compassionate, and generous people.
Carmen Lamar Daehler is the Junior School Director at The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre. She is an actor, singer, children’s theatre director, and a proud member of the professional actor unions: SAG-AFTRA and AEA. Carmen has performed in NYC, regional, and summer stock theatre. She’s also appeared in film; television; and cabaret (her most recent performance in a new play Glockcoma and a documentary film on the Stanford case). Coming from this rich and varied background in formal acting training and professional work in the industry, Theatre Education has become Carmen’s foremost passion. She has taught at Rutgers University, NYCDA, Texas Institute for Arts in Education; and has led Meisner acting workshops for youths in NYC as well as in St. John, USVI and Texas. Carmen has directed musicals at NYC’s Clinton School for Writers and Artists. She also coaches teens privately and her students are represented at Frank Sinatra High School, PPAS; and LaGuardia (the ‘Fame’ school). Carmen studied with the renowned acting teacher Fred Kareman. She holds a BA in Communications and Theatre from Texas A&MCorpus Christi and has her MA in Theatre from Hunter College.
"My daughter has been attending classes at Neighborhood Playhouse for the past 4 years.
Her experiences at NP has made a positive impact in her life.
She has found her voice, has achieved confidence, poise and a new sense of purpose.
She truly loves and is motivated to continue her studies at NP." ~ Leanne, NP Parent
Her experiences at NP has made a positive impact in her life.
She has found her voice, has achieved confidence, poise and a new sense of purpose.
She truly loves and is motivated to continue her studies at NP." ~ Leanne, NP Parent
