Ellen Waylonis

Ellen Waylonis is a Boston-based multi-disciplinary circus artist, choreographer, producer, and theatrical intimacy director who is inspired by the immense power of storytelling through movement. As a circus educator, Ellen is dedicated to fostering inclusive and consent-forward spaces that celebrate joyful exploration. She draws on her diverse background in ground-based and aerial acrobatics, physical theater, weight lifting, dance, and functional anatomy to help her students find the pathways that work best for them, and to foster a love of movement in recreational and professional students alike.

Ellen is a co-founder of the Boston-based contemporary circus collective Circus 617 and a founding member of the Boston Circus Guild, performing locally and nationally with both companies. Ellen has also toured nationally with Cirque Productions, Caroline Calouche & Co, and Nimble Arts. Locally, she has performed with and for organizations both large and small.

In her off-stage roles, Ellen has collaborated with organizations throughout New England including North Shore Music Theater, Trustees of Reservations, and the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture. She was a 2021 Live Arts Boston grantee with Circus 617, a 2024 Creative and Indepent Producers Alliannce fellow, and a 2025 Next Steps for Boston Dance grantee.

Ellen is a graduate of the professional program at the New England Center of Circus Arts. While finishing the program at NECCA, Ellen helped to launch Esh Circus Arts in 2010. In 2017 she was a member of the founding team for Commonwealth Circus Center in Boston’s Jamaica Plain neighborhood.

Learn more at ellencreative.com.