We had a fantastic time at Junior Theater Festival 2026! Our troupe took home the award for Excellence in Ensemble! If you want to join us for next year, auditions are April 26th, 2026, from 4-7 pm.

Please sign up below for auditions for Firefly’s Advanced Training Troupe. Admittance into this group will be by audition only. The students will train and perform a cut from (show TBA) for the Junior Theater Festival taking place on January 15-17, 2027. The will perform the full show on August 14-15, 2026. They will also continue to train after the festival and perform a showcase in April 2027!

What is JTF? — The Junior Theater Festival (JTF) is an annual conference of 7,000 students and directors from youth theatre companies across the world! Every troupe shares a 15-minute cut from a junior musical for adjudication with awards being given on the final day. Participants also take workshops in singing, dancing, and acting plus see interviews and performances with Broadway performers and famous musical composers. Parents can come as well; we need a chaperone for every four students. Parents will pay the $385 ticket fee for the weekend conference (and food and hotel if they so choose). (If we don’t get enough parent chaperones, everyone will pay a small chaperone fee so we can bring more Firefly staff members to be chaperones.)

Auditions: Please sign up for a one-hour time slot to sing (4-5 pm or 6-7 pm). Everyone will need to attend the dance call from 5-6 pm. Be prepared to sing a one-minute cut from a pop/rock song (think Disney Channel). Please bring jazz shoes (tennis shoes are also fine for the audition but student will need black jazz shoes for the festival).