Like every theater group in town, Cleveland Heights-based Ensemble Theatre shut down during the pandemic. And like most of the area’s smaller theaters, it stayed shut for a long time.
During the hiatus, it presented some online programming, including staged readings and open mics, and it moved out of its longtime home on the Coventry PEACE campus in Cleveland Heights.
Anyone who was worried that Ensemble might become a COVID casualty can now put those fears to rest. It’s now announced that it has found a new home at Notre Dame College in South Euclid.
“Both my mother and I graduated from Regina High School, so in a lot of ways I am returning to the ‘stage’ where a lot of this began for both of us,” says the theater’s executive artistic director Celeste Cosentino, who now runs the theater founded by her mother Lucia Colombi in 1979. She’s referring to the now-closed girls’ high school that was located next door to Notre Dame College.
Cosentino was also recently named Director of Theatre Studies at Notre Dame, overseeing the college’s theater students.
Ensemble will be announcing its 2022-23 season of productions and program in early June, which will kick off with a staged reading of India Nicole Burton’s new play The Light Post in the Regina Auditorium.
Go to Ensemble Theatre’s website for more information and updates.