Bertie and friends handed out ice cream during opening and closing nights of Emerging Professional Ensemble’s production of Pippin. It was great to support an amazing theater company and to see live theater under the stars.

The Performing Institute of Minnesota’s Emerging Professionals Ensemble (EPE) was founded in the summer of 2017 with the opening of the PiM’s Eden Prairie campus, and is envisioned as a pre-professional, rigorous, theatrical playground for professionally-minded triple threat performers. EPE is committed to ensemble-driven, compelling, and contemporary storytelling and strives to empower a creative space where all voices are heard and honored; a space where young emerging artists can collaborate and create with peers and those starting their professional journeys. Artists 16 to 24 are encouraged to engage in the collaborative process in the production of high-quality, impactful theatre and musical theatre.