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...
A gathering of theatre students came together recently at Emerald Coast Theatre Company (ECTC) to celebrate the close of their 11th Season, induct Jr. Thespians and commemorate the end of a fruitful season of children’s educational theatre. This event allowed ECTC’s students and parents to come together with food and fellowship...
It was a full house at an Okaloosa County School Board meeting in June as Tax Collector Ben Anderson and Sheriff Eric Aden presented certificates to the Award of Distinction winners of the Kids Tag Art Program. Along with Superintendent Marcus Chambers, Anderson and Aden recognized two winners from...
