Our Story
The Miracle Project is a fully inclusive theatre, film, and expressive arts program for children, teens, and adults with autism and all abilities. Using groundbreaking and evidence-based methods developed by our award-winning founder, Elaine Hall, The Miracle Project focuses on the strengths and abilities inherent in its participants, providing tools to build communication, social skills, job skills, and friendships while developing a unique neurodiverse community.
Through shared experiences with peers, individuals with autism and other disabilities find their voice, develop their talents, and rehearse for life. Students and their families, once isolated and alone, become part of a dynamic, inclusive community. Each year, participants and staff create original musicals, based on their preferred interests and passions and then perform at the acclaimed Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills. Participants once too frightened to even walk into a room of their peers, have now performed live in front of standing room only audiences. Some have shared their talents at Carnegie Hall, The White House, Lincoln Center, The United Nations, and others have appeared in TV and films including on the hit shows Parenthood, Speechless, The Good Doctor, and most recently in the film Please Stand By!
The Miracle Project staff offers trainings, professional development workshops and summer camps nationally and internationally most recently in New Jersey, New England, San Francisco, Hong Kong, China and at universities including Brown University and Cal Arts. Profiled in the two time Emmy Award-winning HBO film, “Autism: The Musical” The Miracle Project is lauded for changing the way audiences perceive autism.