"As artists, we often work alone, and sometimes forget that our work is stronger when we work together. LABA offered me the space to share work, and collaborate with new colleagues, in ways I wouldn't have been able to do outside of school, or from the inside of a theater collective. To have this experience with Jewish artists/colleagues is even more rare and spectacular since we can bring our full Jewish and artistic selves to the LABA community. Often times I have to explain my Jewish self to my artistic colleagues, and my artistic self to my Jewish colleagues. Within the LABA collective, and as part of our public presentations, the Jewish and the creative can live together."