Junior Players

The mission of Junior Players is to encourage intellectual growth, mental well-being and the development of life skills in the youth of North Texas through mentoring, creative expression and participation in dramatic and arts activities.

Junior Players has provided unique arts education programming to the youth of Dallas since 1955. Junior Players exclusively provides free arts education programs in local recreation and cultural centers, low-income housing developments, elementary, middle and high schools and through social service agencies serving at-risk youth.

Junior Players' programs give our youth a creative alternative to drugs, gangs and violence. Junior Players' workshops utilize the arts to develop our young people's creative imaginations, stimulate their intellect, expand communication and literacy skills and increase self-confidence and self-esteem. Junior Players' instructors serve as mentors and positive role models as well. Junior Players' series of after-school and summer arts education workshops provides a fun, structured learning environment for at-risk youth during the critical out of school hours.