By All Means Save Some (BAMSS) Theatre Works first opened its faith-based, community theatre in 1998 on the parlor floor of a Brooklyn brownstone.  With limited resources, the Directors, Ben and Olive Harney renovated their parlor into a rehearsal and performance studio naming it Dyer Hall.  In February 1998, with a multi-ethnic cast of ten neighborhood young people they opened their first production, “Slow Down the Night”, by Anthony LaPeau, a musical based on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and what might have happened the night before the 1963 March on Washington.  Giving two performances every Saturday, “Slow Down the Night” ran for three months before enthusiastic audiences.  As a result of that first effort, BAMSS was asked by the Police Athletic League’s Beacon program to mount an expanded production and workshop at a center in Brownsville, Brooklyn.

 

Since those humble beginnings audiences have enjoyed performances at prestigious houses like Symphony Space, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden Palm House, Metrotech, State of the Borough Address for Marty Markowitz, the Kumble and Lambs Theaters and many other venues in the tri-state area.  BAMSS has continued taking root and enriching the community by creating and developing BARC (BAMSS Adult Repertory Company) and BYTE (BAMSS Youth Theatre Ensemble). BAMSS workshops have touched the lives of thousands of people in, churches, youth detention houses, and community centers.

BAMSS is a contracted vendor with the NYC Dept of Education and has run theatre arts programs in NYC public schools affecting the lives of hundreds of NYC school children since 1998.

 

BAMSS students have gone on to study the arts and tech in major institutions on the secondary school and university levels.  BAMSS alumni have performed in production workshops with Music Theatre International (MTI)/Disney, on and off-Broadway, and through-out the United States, Europe and Asia.

 

BAMSS is non-profit 501©3 organization.