EnActe School of Drama
EnActe Arts, Inc., 830 Stewart Dr, Suite 183, Sunnyvale, CA 94085
About
EnActe School of Drama is part of EnActe Arts, Inc. and is described as educating over 1000 students annually. The program is connected to a larger company that produces thought-provoking professional theatre, including intimate stories and sweeping musicals, with over 90% of its plays being new work.
EnActe School of Drama operates within an organization that has produced 38 plays in 12 years and is home to over 400 artists of 17 different ethnicities, including playwrights, directors, actors, designers, dancers, musicians, music composers, teaching artists, and arts administrators. Some EnActe School of Drama students are now employees of EnActe, running creative programs for the next generation. The broader EnActe organization states that it is an incubator whose talent has gone on to Broadway and Hollywood, and that it has grown in 12 years to be America’s largest South Asian and only national South Asian theater company.
The stated mission connected to EnActe includes embracing Eastern and Western storytelling traditions by developing and presenting stories that put South Asian voices in a global context, and acting as an inclusive platform for developing diverse talent in the performance arts. The organization states that it values all identities, backgrounds, and abilities, and that it strives to engage people of varied race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, ability, and socioeconomic status. It describes its work as embodying values of belonging, challenging, empowering, and collaborating, and as amplifying South Asian and other minority voices through storytelling.
EnActe notes that its playwrights come from all over the world and that over 400 diverse artists call EnActe their home. It states that it is highly collaborative, understands partnership as reciprocal, and commits to diversity of thought, action, and representation while fostering inclusive, multi-disciplinary talent. The organization also states that it strives for excellence in production, programming, and education, that it innovates, provokes dialogue, promotes the benefits of theater to society, and that its stories touch diverse communities with intention to provoke thought and influence positive change.
EnActe is a proud member of the Consortium of Asian American Theaters and Artists (CAATA) and an elected member of the National New Play Network (NNPN). The leadership team includes Founder Vinita Sud Belani, Sales & Marketing Manager Linh Phan, and Associate Artistic Director Douglas Graham.
Last updated June 21, 2026.
EnActe School of Drama operates within an organization that has produced 38 plays in 12 years and is home to over 400 artists of 17 different ethnicities, including playwrights, directors, actors, designers, dancers, musicians, music composers, teaching artists, and arts administrators. Some EnActe School of Drama students are now employees of EnActe, running creative programs for the next generation. The broader EnActe organization states that it is an incubator whose talent has gone on to Broadway and Hollywood, and that it has grown in 12 years to be America’s largest South Asian and only national South Asian theater company.
The stated mission connected to EnActe includes embracing Eastern and Western storytelling traditions by developing and presenting stories that put South Asian voices in a global context, and acting as an inclusive platform for developing diverse talent in the performance arts. The organization states that it values all identities, backgrounds, and abilities, and that it strives to engage people of varied race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, ability, and socioeconomic status. It describes its work as embodying values of belonging, challenging, empowering, and collaborating, and as amplifying South Asian and other minority voices through storytelling.
EnActe notes that its playwrights come from all over the world and that over 400 diverse artists call EnActe their home. It states that it is highly collaborative, understands partnership as reciprocal, and commits to diversity of thought, action, and representation while fostering inclusive, multi-disciplinary talent. The organization also states that it strives for excellence in production, programming, and education, that it innovates, provokes dialogue, promotes the benefits of theater to society, and that its stories touch diverse communities with intention to provoke thought and influence positive change.
EnActe is a proud member of the Consortium of Asian American Theaters and Artists (CAATA) and an elected member of the National New Play Network (NNPN). The leadership team includes Founder Vinita Sud Belani, Sales & Marketing Manager Linh Phan, and Associate Artistic Director Douglas Graham.
Last updated June 21, 2026.
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