Priscilla Hellweg

Biography
Priscilla Kane Hellweg is the Executive Artistic Director of Enchanted Circle Theater (ECT), a non-profit educational theater company in Holyoke, Massachusetts. She earned a B.A. in Performing Arts and Education from Hampshire College, trained at Provincetown Playhouse, and went on to create arts integration curricula for Holyoke, Northampton and Springfield Public Schools. Priscilla has also taught professional development programs for teachers in New York and New England on Arts Integration Pedagogy Across Curriculum Boundaries.

Hellweg co-authored BETWEEN THE CANALS: The Evolution of a Mill Town, SOJOURNER’S TRUTH, “I Will Shake Every Place I Go To”, LEAH ENTERS LATE: A New Chapter in the History of Yiddish, THE SKINNER SERVANTS’ TOUR: A Living History of Wistariahurst, and the PBS documentary for WGBY- Creating Holyoke: Voices of a Community.

She was named Outstanding Artist-in-Residence by the Massachusetts Alliance for Arts in Education, and has received numerous grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, including the first ever Artist-Teacher Partnership Grant.

Fall 2010
IA 0169-1 Engaging Learning through Theatre and the Arts: The Role of A Teaching Artist

Current Work
Priscilla is working on a book entitled, Actively Engaged- Theater Arts as a Dynamic Teaching Tool.