Attleboro, MA - since 2013
About illuminate
In January 2013, classes began with 15 eager students, and “Singin in the Rain” was performed on the beautiful stage in Tolman High School, Pawtucket. This little company managed to pull out all the stops- and the audience leapt to their feet. Inspired, this small community quickly grew.
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Today, the company has grown over 100 students, offers close to 100 classes and a season of productions, has an active Board of Directors, Volunteers, Interns, Staff, and Membership. Our Performance Outreach teams bring free Children's Theatre and Puppet Theatre to schools, libraries, and so much more. In 2020, "A Work in Progress" became illuminate as it blazed a path through the pandemic.
With this foundation laid over the past 11 years, illuminate is looking towards a bright future.
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Mission
Illuminate’s purpose is to provide exceptional, enriching, accessible, wholesome, family-friendly opportunities in every aspect of the arts in an atmosphere that allows students to discover and pursue their potential. We believe that everyone has the ability to learn new skills, grow in their gifts, and to use their individual talents to Create + Collaborate + Shine Brightly to the Community.
Core Values
Learn + Create: To accommodate all skill levels and provide appropriate learning challenges for all students from preschool age to adult, providing additional leadership opportunities for students who excel through mentoring, internships and student teaching opportunities
Grow+Collaborate: To educate students about all aspects of production on and off the stage through classes, workshops, coaching, and performances that are competitively priced, with Options that fit within homeschooling schedules.
Shine+Community: To nurture and empower students to discover their potential through family-friendly, wholesome educational content that respects their beliefs and values. Students are then given opportunities to take their gifts and talents to serve the community through our various outreach teams, as well as cultivating leadership skills by interning, coaching, and assisting Team Illuminate.
Traci (parent)
"We’ve been with the company from the beginning. My daughter literally did everything. Shows, classes, outreach, script writing, student teacher. Looking back, the opportunities illuminate offered her were the catalyst to her college path and future career. The chance to not only star on the stage but write actual scripts led her to pursue that in college. She can attest to being ahead of her peers because of all she was able to experience at illuminate."
Kerryanne (member)
"There are so many ways to find your place in this company…. My youngest son (13) Enjoyed the junior productions, but being on stage is not his thing. Then he found TIP crew (backstage crew) and loved it! He found his place working with tools, creating sets, learning about the lights and being a part of a crew of kids and adults. Illuminate has given our family a place to express ourselves artfully, build friendships, cultivate life skills, serve our local community and be apart of a company that strives to keep opening doors for the whole family."
Mim Brooks Foster (commuity supporter)
"illuminate differentiates itself by running throughout the year, offering free community programs (such as an innovative day-long Shakespeare in the Skatepark festival in Attleboro’s Balfour Riverpark), and opening its arms to students with a range of abilities. It is clear that the organization is committed to establishing a strong family that works toward the greater good for both its students and the community at large."
LOCATIONS
Centenary United Methodist Church
15 Sanford Street, Attleboro MA
Main location
Tolman High School
150 Exchange St, Pawtucket, RI
Mainstage Productions and TIP Crew
Attleboro Community Theatre
71 N Main St, Attleboro, MA
additional space for smaller productions
Union Theatre
52 Union St, Attleboro, MA
future location
Double ACS TV
42 Union St, Attleboro, MA
for Media Team, Luminators Puppet Team, and meetings