About the Company

Elements Theatre Company is a resident theatre company from Orleans, MA. Founded in 1993, Elements Theatre Company has stirred and inspired minds and hearts of audiences both nationally and internationally through dramatic storytelling and imaginative stagecraft of both classical works, modern works, and original compositions. The Company’s commitment to the integrity of language and context, devotion to the transformative work to become the text, and courage to explore the scope of humanity in all its horror, loveliness and humor, has resulted in high acclaim for their performance authenticity and honesty.

Performances of the past decade include: Oliver!, Blithe Spirit, Ralph Vaughan William’s opera, The Pilgrim’s Progress, fully staged in collaboration with Gloriæ Dei Cantores, All My Sons, King Lear, Quem Quæritis (an original work of the Mystery Plays performed in Latin), The Merchant of Venice, Talking Heads, Julius Caesar, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night, Cherry Orchard, Pillars of the Community, A Christmas Carol, God of Carnage, The Dining Room, Rumors, Lion in Winter, and Lady Windermere’s Fan.

Highlights of the Company’s mission include two tours in Tuscany, Italy performing original mystery plays in Latin, several Eastern U. S. and East Coast tours, and tours in New York City, Chicago and Boston.

True to Elements’ mission of conversation and education, the Company launched a panel discussion series in 2013: Arts in Conversation, with leaders in Arts, education, religion, media and social outreach with the aim to enrich public dialogue on the power of the arts to humanize or culture.

The Company regularly studies voice with specific emphasis in the Linklater method as well as other disciplines. In addition to the Company’s ongoing studies in specific techniques, playwrights and methods in London, New York, Chicago, and at Shakespeare & Company, Elements holds workshops with students, sharing their knowledge at schools and universities throughout the country. Elements Theatre Company is a premiere performing ensemble of Arts Empowering Life Foundation.

“…Elements Theatre Company is about more than entertainment: every piece they undertake explores the breadth of humanity—its horror, its loveliness, and its humor—with honesty. These actors hold up the mirror for themselves and in turn give us, the audience, the courage to look into that mirror too, and not shy away from what we find.”—JULIE HARRIS (FIVE TIME TONY AWARD WINNING ACTRESS AND ELEMENTS THEATRE COMPANY BOARD OF REFERENCE)

Elements Theatre Company has had the privilege of working with:

Christine Adaire
Daniela Varon
Deborah Frances-White
Elizabeth Ingraham
Glynn MacDonald
Jane Nichols
Joanna Weir Ouston
Kestutis Nakas
Lenard Petit
Louis Colaianni
Nick Sandys Pullen
Patrice Egleston
Patsy Rodenberg
Rachel Slavick
Sue Lefton