Award Winning
Professional Quality
Agape Theater Company
Indianapolis, IN
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Your support and contributions will enable us to meet our goals and continue to educate the youth of central Indiana in theater arts. The pandemic eliminated all our sources of revenue for more than a year, so please help if you are able! Thank you for your generosity! We are a 501c3 so all donations are tax-deductible.
Our Team
Our History
Our History
Our founder Dr. Kathy Phipps has a PhD in Theater from Michigan State University and has studied Shakespeare at Regent's College in London, England and Irish Theater at the University College Galway, Ireland.
Dr. Phipps brings thirty years of experience as a Theater Educator and Director to our productions. We are an educational company
Our founder Dr. Kathy Phipps has a PhD in Theater from Michigan State University and has studied Shakespeare at Regent's College in London, England and Irish Theater at the University College Galway, Ireland.
Dr. Phipps brings thirty years of experience as a Theater Educator and Director to our productions. We are an educational company committed to helping performers grow on-stage and offstage.
Our History
Our History
Our History
The Agape Theater Company is a 501c3 not-for-profit organization created to meet the educational needs of performers who want a rigorous training in a welcoming, faith-based atmosphere.
From Shakespeare to Gilbert and Sullivan or Sondheim, our professional quality productions receive rave reviews and delight audiences. Performers of all
The Agape Theater Company is a 501c3 not-for-profit organization created to meet the educational needs of performers who want a rigorous training in a welcoming, faith-based atmosphere.
From Shakespeare to Gilbert and Sullivan or Sondheim, our professional quality productions receive rave reviews and delight audiences. Performers of all experience levels are welcome to audition. We will help you take your skills to the next level!
Our Mission
Our History
Our Mission
Our mission is to offer high quality theater education to the performers of central Indiana. We create outstanding productions that are good family entertainment in a faith-based environment. The Agape Theater Company's education helps performers strengthen their performing arts skills while reinforcing their confidence, teamwork, diligen
Our mission is to offer high quality theater education to the performers of central Indiana. We create outstanding productions that are good family entertainment in a faith-based environment. The Agape Theater Company's education helps performers strengthen their performing arts skills while reinforcing their confidence, teamwork, diligence, and self-control.
"Agape" stems from root word for sacrificial love. From our love of our craft to the harmony flowing in the performers, families and volunteers involved, Christian love is at the base of everything we do. Supported by prayer, devotions, and weekly team-building exercises, we work to create an atmosphere of love.
Learn more about how love infuses our Agape Theater Company community resulting in top-quality, family-friendly, affordable experiences for cast and audiences
OUr 2022 musical
The pandemic has shown us that there are still unresolved racial tensions in our country and the Agape Theater Company will directly address these issues in our production of West Side Story. The Sharks were cast with racial diversity. We seek to raise awareness and build community.
Agape Theater COmpany chosen to perform at Bard Fest 2022
We are humbled to announce that Agape Theater Company has been chosen to perform in our fourth consecutive production at Bard Fest, Indiana's Shakespeare Festival. Dr. Kathy Phipps will direct "The Winter's Tale" in the fall and auditions will be in the summer. This is a phenomenal educational opportunity for everyone involved. During her doctoral coursework, Dr. Phipps studied Shakespeare in London, and she studied at Michigan State University with one of the national authorities who worked to make Shakespeare's language accessible to students and the audience.
Challenge yourself to grow as a performer
"To love another person is to see the face of God."
