By Nathanael and Anna Fisher, Emerald Coast Theatre Company
After shows like Jersey Boys, Million Dollar Quartet and Wonderettes, we often receive questions such as, “How long has this cast toured together?” and “Where are they going next?” Anna and I always smile when we get these questions, because it...
This year, $32 million was cut from Florida’s state cultural arts budget. The impact was immediately felt statewide by 600 organizations as well as additional businesses. Some art organizations had to shut their doors. This unprecedented slash of funds means supporting the arts at the local level is more...
The Cultural Arts Alliance of Walton County (CAA) is proud to announce that original murals commissioned and created by 10 local artists were recently installed on the walls of Walton County’s first pedestrian underpass at U.S. Highway 98 in Inlet Beach, which opened to the public over Labor Day...
By Nathanael Fisher, ECTC Producing Artistic Director/CoFounder
Last year, Season 11 ended with a beautiful and magical show - Mary Poppins. Hillary Marshall Anthony and Vincent Pelligrino, along with 20 other cast members and a spectacular creative team co-created a wealth of magical, heartwarming and inspirational moments on our stage...
By Anna Fisher, Associate Artistic Director, ECTC
Emerald Coast Theatre Company is a vibrating ball of energy in the summertime, filled with many students from ages 5-17. There was a week this past summer where we had 80 students in four separate camps running simultaneously, at full volume from all directions.
I...
Santa Rosa Beach Artist Named 2024 Festival of the Arts Poster Contest Winner
By Zandra Wolfgram
Artist Kelly Pierre hails from South Louisiana’s vibrant culture, where his Cajun French-speaking family owned shrimp boats. Summers spent learning the shrimping business along the Gulf Coast deeply connected him to the seafood industry.
“I got...
Seven new sculptures were recently added to North America’s first permanent Underwater Museum of Art (UMA) in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Grayton Beach State Park in South Walton.
Named by TIME Magazine as one of 100 “World’s Greatest Places” and a 2023 CODAworx Award winner for...
Northwest Florida’s champion of the arts for all abilities was awarded $30,000 (one of four national grants totaling $127,000) recently from the Emeril Lagasse Foundation.
Founded in 2002 by Chef Emeril Lagasse and his wife Alden, Emeril Lagasse Foundation is a 501(c)(3) public charity headquartered in New Orleans. The Foundation’s...
Programs Available in Freeport, DeFuniak Springs and Miramar Beach
Emerald Coast Theatre Company’s (ECTC) 2024 Fall Educational Theatre programs are bigger and better than ever. These programs provide creative and engaging classes designed especially for young thespians from elementary to high school, as well as adult classes. ECTC offers classes...
