Educational Theatre Company

In close partnership with over 40 schools and community organizations, ETC brings theater and artists directly into local classrooms: programs are participatory and students are able to make theater – write dialogue, paint sets, analyze and create characters – not just watch from the audience. Young children work closely with resident teaching artists to write, produce, or perform an original musical, while older students create and star in a film or experience a touring Shakespeare production right in their own schools. ETC Creative Age engages seniors who perform scenes and write monologues about their lives; and an arts-based ESOL program uses theater techniques to build vocabulary, fluency, and public speaking among English language learners. Live theater can truly ignite the imagination, so the goal is simple: weave the arts into everyday experience and make joy, confidence, creativity, and community come to life. Don't just watch from the audience!