Our Circle is Open
At Open Circle Theatre our circle is open to you and your dreams, because that is where creation starts. We live from the principle that disability can enhance the artistic experience, expand aesthetic innovation, and influence a nation to become accessible for all. Formed in 2003 by people with and without disabilities, we value building a global community and celebrating the uniqueness of each person.
Discover Your Circle
Open Circle Theatre is dedicated to Universal Possibility. Moving to create structure that allows all communities to grow past the limits of understanding or accepted purpose. To offer practice of acceptance through theatre, not as a kindness to others, but as fulfillment to one’s self. To honor disability as an invitation to innovation and expanded thought, where we influence society to become accessible for all.
Open Doors Festival
The Open Doors Festival celebrates the voices and talents of the disability arts community, through public performances, workshops, panel discussions, art making, and an arts market.
The Hive
The Open Circle Hive is a collective of independent artists with disabilities.
Open Clearinghouse
We work for YOU! From workshops, to management and resource help, audition preparation, and more, the Open Clearinghouse provides career management tools for those with disabilities.
Technology Infrastructure Project
An interactive, hybrid accessible musical that combines cutting-edge technology with access-centered practices to offer an abundantly accessible theatre experience.
More Than
Developing your brand beyond your disability
Thriving Past
Charlie Brown
How do you grow past the repetition of getting the football pulled out from under your feet?
Why we are different
Welcoming community
A supportive, welcoming community that inspires connection, shared growth, and a sense of belonging in theatre and the performing arts.
Sharing Access
A community that shares accessibility forward programming and offerings created by and for disabled artists with our community and region.
Designing our Future
Refusing to let the boxes society creates define who we are, we actively work together to create the future we want to create, experience, and live in.
Our Circle is Open!
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