Twenty-five years of stories,
told by our neighbors.

Our Story

From a shared dream to a mountain institution

Artists Collaborative Theatre was officially incorporated in 2001, born from a simple conviction: the people of the mountains deserve great live theatre, and they're more than talented enough to make it themselves.

In 2008, that conviction became a building — a $500,000 black-box theater in Elkhorn City, funded largely through Coal Severance Tax dollars. Handicap-accessible, 100 seats, 5,000 square feet, and busy year-round with productions and community programming.

In early 2020, an electrical fire took the original building. It didn't take the theatre. The company kept performing, and in 2021 ACT began developing a second location in Elkhorn City — because a stage is a building, but a theatre is its people.