Enchanted Circle Theater

Mission Statement

"You are proof of how exciting education can be!

~5th grade teacher, Providence, RI

ENCHANTED CIRCLE THEATER, founded in 1976, is a non-profit, professional educational theater company dedicated to engaging, enhancing and inspiring learning through the arts.

Our programs, known to expand the boundaries of what is generally presented in schools, integrate theater arts - theater, dance, music, visual and literary arts – with academic and social curricula.

Our school residency programs help youth become active, engaged, and resourceful learners by making classroom curriculum relevant and compelling.
Our professional development programs support teachers in the development of creative curriculum projects, and provide effective techniques for using theater arts as a dynamic teaching tool.
Our site-based and touring productions spark new interests and broaden understanding of the world around us through original history plays, multicultural folktale productions and curricular plays on science and literature.
Our community collaborations embrace and build community through creative education programs on topics of social relevance.

We work in schools, professional theaters, community centers and human service agencies, with people of all ages and abilities.

Honors and Accomplishments:

ECT's productions and workshops have earned national acclaim. The company was in residence at the Smithsonian Institution's Discovery Theater and was voted "outstanding family theater" at the Piccolo Spoleto Festival in Charleston, South Carolina.

In addition to thousands of schools and museums along the East Coast, the company has performed at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center and the Jewish Museum in NYC, the Olney Theater in Maryland, the New York State Museum and Education Center in Albany, the Amaturo Theater in Miami, and has performed at the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library in Boston for over a decade.

In 2004, Priscilla Kane Hellweg, Executive/Artistic Director of ECT, was named Outstanding Artist-in-Residence in Massachusetts, by the Massachusetts Alliance for Arts Education.

ECT has been honored with the Non-Profit Excellence Award from the Holyoke Chamber of Commerce, and was chosen for inclusion in the Catalogue for Philanthropy, a magazine listing "80 of the most worthy organizations in Massachusetts” for charitable giving.