About
Ensemble Children's Theatre offers classes, workshops, and summer camps where children take part in early drama education, acting, improv, and playwriting. The program also includes production opportunities for actors ages 8–14.
• Ages: 3–14 years old
Ensemble Children's Theatre was founded in 2023 by Elisabeth Speckman and is now in its third season. Teaching artists and guests for the program include professional actors, directors, playwrights, technicians, and stage combat instructors. The program offers summer camps at various locations throughout Central Indiana.
Founder and main instructor Elisabeth Speckman has 14+ years of experience teaching youth drama and writing with programs throughout the Indianapolis area. She is a playwright, actor, and director with a BA in Theatre and English-Creative Writing from Denison University and an MFA in Fiction from Butler University. Her teaching experience includes undergraduate courses in first-year studies, creative writing, academic writing, media studies, screenwriting, and acting at Butler University and IUPUI, as well as multiple teaching and production assistantships and a graduate teaching fellowship. She has taught playwriting, improv, and acting classes and workshops for area theatres and nonprofits such as the Indiana Writers Center and has directed for organizations including CYT Indy (now The Point), Roots' School of Theatre, Southbank Theatre Company, Fishers UMC, Carmel Theatre Company, The Artists' Studio, Hasten Hebrew Academy, and Fishers Parks. She is certified in adult and pediatric CPR/First Aid/AED and in anaphylaxis and epinephrine auto-injectors by the American Red Cross.
Elisabeth was awarded the 2015 Best Major Supporting Actress Award from the Encore Association, is an O’Neill National Playwrights Conference Finalist, and is a two-time Henley Rose Award finalist. Ensemble Children's Theatre states that early drama education helps students learn to identify and regulate their emotions, use their bodies and voices to express themselves, explore their creative impulses, and grow into empathetic individuals. One parent notes that Ensemble Children's Theatre has created an inclusive space for learning theater, with a reasonable time commitment and teaching artists and guests that include professional actors, directors, playwrights, technicians, and stage combat instructors.
Last updated May 12, 2026.
• Ages: 3–14 years old
Ensemble Children's Theatre was founded in 2023 by Elisabeth Speckman and is now in its third season. Teaching artists and guests for the program include professional actors, directors, playwrights, technicians, and stage combat instructors. The program offers summer camps at various locations throughout Central Indiana.
Founder and main instructor Elisabeth Speckman has 14+ years of experience teaching youth drama and writing with programs throughout the Indianapolis area. She is a playwright, actor, and director with a BA in Theatre and English-Creative Writing from Denison University and an MFA in Fiction from Butler University. Her teaching experience includes undergraduate courses in first-year studies, creative writing, academic writing, media studies, screenwriting, and acting at Butler University and IUPUI, as well as multiple teaching and production assistantships and a graduate teaching fellowship. She has taught playwriting, improv, and acting classes and workshops for area theatres and nonprofits such as the Indiana Writers Center and has directed for organizations including CYT Indy (now The Point), Roots' School of Theatre, Southbank Theatre Company, Fishers UMC, Carmel Theatre Company, The Artists' Studio, Hasten Hebrew Academy, and Fishers Parks. She is certified in adult and pediatric CPR/First Aid/AED and in anaphylaxis and epinephrine auto-injectors by the American Red Cross.
Elisabeth was awarded the 2015 Best Major Supporting Actress Award from the Encore Association, is an O’Neill National Playwrights Conference Finalist, and is a two-time Henley Rose Award finalist. Ensemble Children's Theatre states that early drama education helps students learn to identify and regulate their emotions, use their bodies and voices to express themselves, explore their creative impulses, and grow into empathetic individuals. One parent notes that Ensemble Children's Theatre has created an inclusive space for learning theater, with a reasonable time commitment and teaching artists and guests that include professional actors, directors, playwrights, technicians, and stage combat instructors.
Last updated May 12, 2026.
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