JUNIOR THEATRE NEWS & SPOTLIGHT FEATURES
Building the Magic: Jay Heiserman Returns Home to Junior Theatre
Long before audiences applauded his Emmy Award-winning designs or watched celebrities walk across the Academy Awards red carpet he created, Jay Heiserman was a five-year-old sitting in the audience at Junior Theatre, completely captivated by the world unfolding...
From Trendsetter to Torchbearer: Carmen Quiñones Returns Home to Junior Theatre
On any given afternoon at Junior Theatre, the rhythm of rehearsal hums the way it always has. Laughter ricochets off green-carpeted walls. Notes are given. Trust is built, one warm-up at a time. For Carmen Quiñones, directing Frozen JR in these same rooms feels both...
Thoughts on Shakespeare, Devising, and Performing from “Shakespeariment” Director, David Goodwin
As we dive into San Diego Junior Theatre’s first production of 2025, Churlish Chiding of Winter Winds: A Shakespeariment, director David Goodwin has shared more about his background in the theatre, his career highlights, his lifelong connection to Shakespeare’s work,...
Spotlight on ASL-Interpreter Extraordinaire, Liz Mendoza
For over three decades, San Diego Junior Theatre has been offering American Sign Language (ASL) interpreted performances for each of its productions. And one interpreter in particular, Liz Mendoza, has been devoted to SDJT since the beginning! Every season, Liz...
Spotlight on Junior Theatre’s Wig & Makeup Designer, Meg Woodley!
San Diego Junior Theatre has had the pleasure of working with Wig & Makeup Artist, Meg Woodley on each of our productions since we reopened in September 2021. We thought it would be fun to shine the spotlight on Meg, ask her some questions and take a look at some...
SDJT Alum Returns to Compose Original Music for “Gruesome Gallery”
San Diego Junior Theatre’s world premiere production, Edgar Allan Poe’s Gruesome Gallery of Grotesquerie, is based on Poe’s works but was devised from scratch by director Blake McCarty in collaboration with the cast. An original play wouldn’t be quite as original...
Announcing “The George E. Oswell Box Office at San Diego Junior Theatre”
George Oswell was a two-term member of the SDJT Board of Trustees, dedicated volunteer, alumni parent and annual donor. George ran the Junior Theatre box office as a volunteer starting in the 1970s, long before computerized ticket systems, credit card purchases or the...
To Be Seen, To Be Heard: Spotlight on Young Black Voices
To Be Seen, To Be Heard: Spotlight on Young Black Voices 7pm Saturday, Mar 19, 2022 Casa del Prado Theatre, Balboa Park This is a free event. Donations gratefully accepted. Please reserve your seats today! RESERVE SEATS
Spotlight on THE SNOWY DAY Director, Kandace Crystal
Kandace Crystal is an SDJT teaching artist and is currently working with Junior Theatre as the director of The Snowy Day and Other Stories by Ezra Jack Keats. She was recently recognized by the Times of San Diego for directing two of San Diego’s top plays of 2021!...
Junior Theatre Welcomes New Education Director, Elissa Russell!
San Diego Junior Theatre, the nation’s longest-running youth theatre program, welcomes Elissa Russell as its new Education Director. Elissa comes to SDJT from Theatre Aspen in Colorado, where she held the position of Director of Education Programming and...
