The Cultural Arts Alliance (CAA) of Walton County was recently approved by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) for a Grants for Arts Projects award of $20,000! This grant will support the 2025 installation of sculptures to expand the nation’s first Underwater Museum of Art (UMA). The NEA...
A Reflection by Nathanael Fisher
Shirley Simpson was a great friend and generous supporter of Emerald Coast Theatre Company. It is my joy to honor her with a small tribute to the incredible life she lived. I shared this reflection at her Celebration of Life recently, and wanted to share it...
Emerald Coast Theatre Company (ECTC) is proud to present Timeless Love: Songs through the Ages Valentine’s Day Musical Revue on Friday, February 14th at 2pm and 6pm. Share this evening or afternoon event with the ones you love. Enjoy beautiful love songs from yesteryear performed by our top vocalists....
By Anna Fisher, Associate Artistic Director, Emerald Coast Theatre Company
I turned around and you were gone–I mean we were just getting to know each other! Wasn’t it just yesterday we found out that Taylor Swift was dating a Super Bowl Champion and Christopher Nolan had to endure “BarbieHeimer” on...
By Jennifer Steele, CAA President & CEO
In the past, the Florida Division of Arts & Culture (DAC) grants received regular funding through state budget approvals. For the FY25 budget, the state legislature recommended $32 million for two of the DAC’s four grant programs. However, the governor vetoed this funding,...
By Anna Fisher, Emerald Coast Theatre Company
Recently I traveled with our Emerald Coast Theatre Company (ECTC) Junior Thespian Troupe to the state district competition in Tallahassee. This is the qualifying event for the Florida State Thespian Festival, which is essentially like the Florida theatre Olympics. Each of our 18 students...
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...
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...
