Jr Theater Festival
We are headed back to jtf west in 2025
The iTheatrics Junior Theater Festival West 2025
Sacramento Convention Center in Sacramento, CA
February 7th-10th, 2025
Wildfish Theatre is thrilled to be returning to JTF West in 2025 and you are invited to audition to be part of this incredible musical theatre opportunity.
WHAT IS JTF? The Junior Theater Festival is a spectacular annual national event that is all about bringing students together to celebrate the joy of musical theater in a BIG way, including competition, New Works Showcase and meeting Broadway stars!
JTF brings together student musical theater groups from all over the country for a weekend of performance, education, and fun! Each group performs a fifteen-minute adjudication piece from a Broadway Jr show for a panel of judges. Rehearsals begin October 2024 and are held Sundays.
Auditions have been rescheduled to September 15th from 11:00-12:30. Please sign up through our registration system so we can know if you are interested!
For the audition:
Prepare a 32-bar cut from a musical theatre or Disney-like song. Bring a printed copy of the music marked with the cut in a 3-ring binder, we will have an accompanist.
Dress to dance. You will learn a choreography number at the audition.
You will be given sides to read from a show at the audition.
Be prepared to stay for the entire audition time.
If you are not a current Wildfish student and you have a headshot and resume, please bring that.
If you are interested in JTF but cannot attend the audition at the scheduled time, please email us at admin@wildfishtheatre.com.
congratulations 2021 jtf texas troupe!
Wildfish's JTF Cast of Guys and Dolls Jr was a hit at the first ever JTF Texas!
Congratulation to the entire cast for taking home an award for
OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION
and special recognition for
OUTSTANDING PEFORMANCE BY AN INDIVIDUAL - Ella Davison
PERFORMANCE ALL STARS - Ashton Booth and Ella Davison
OUTSTANDING STUDENT DIRECTION AND CHOREOGRAPHY - Abbigayle Scott and Ashton Booth
Way to go, Wildfish!
congratulations 2021 jtf oe troupe!
Wildfish's JTF Cast of Frog and Toad KIDS was a hit at the first ever JTF Online Extravaganza!
Congratulation to the entire cast for taking home an award for
OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE
and special recognition for
OUTSTANDING PEFORMANCE BY AN INDIVIDUAL - Apollo Tan
Way to go, Wildfish!
congratulations 2020 JTF Troupe!
At the 2020 JTF ATL Festival, Wildfish earned an Excellence in Ensemble award for their adjudicated performance of Godspell, Jr. Students Estus Stephens (bottom right) and Sutton Walsh (bottom left) both earned recognition as Performance All-Stars. Student Choreographer, Abbigayle Scott (bottom center), was also recognized at the awards ceremony.
conGratulations 2019 jtf troupe!
Back Row from left to right: Matthew Perkins, Ari Katz, Taylor McMullen, Kenna Suttle, Emma Wells, Mia Hirshfeld, Mia Dowler; Middle Row from left to right: Isabelle King, Molly Ferguson, Emma Hodge, Saya Malek, Leah Hillman, Eloise Monroe, Sienna DeSimone, Daniela Arnold, Cormac Steranko, Isaac Hochglaube, Apollo Tan; Front Row from left to right: Emerson Chenevert, Eliza Dorros, Keira Bigman, Patrick Tsang, Gage Schissler, Lia Zitvar, Bianca Ramirez, Nicole Hiemstra, Reese McMullen, Not pictured: Maya Kaul
iTheatrics Director of Education Marty Johnson visited Wildfish Theatre the week before their trip to Junior Theater Festival (JTF) West in Sacramento January 7-11, 2019 to help put the finishing touches on our selection from Oliver Jr. Wildfish was selected from all attending theatre nationwide to present a main stage iTheatrics New Works Showcase of Oliver Jr, performing for 2,000 excited fellow musical theatre students and teachers.
At JTF, the Wildfish troupe of 27 earned Excellence in Dance award for adjudicated performance of Junie B Jones. Students Apollo Tan and Bianca Ramirez both earned recognition as Performance All-Stars.
Selected students were invited to audition for Broadway Junior Resident Choreographer Steven G. Kennedy for future Broadway Junior Choreography DVD shoots including Wildfish students .
WILDFISH JTF CAST soared with CHitty Chitty bang bang at jtf '18
The JTF cast took full advantage of the endless learning opportunities and the spirit of artistic support iTheatrics Junior Theatre Festival packs into a long weekend. Just a few of their recognitions and accomplishments included:
Performance All-Stars
Nicholas Rhew
Lia Zitvar
Student Chosen to Help Run the Freddy G Awards Backstage
McKenna Leach
Assistant to Kelly McIntire, Dean of University of Utah
Ashi Porter
Jr Slam
Actress: Claire O'Donnell
Actor: Asher Rigo
iTheatrics Choreography Audition Callbacks
Eva Adickes
Ashton Booth
Sean Graul
Mallory Keeler
Nicholas Rhew
Eva Adickes
Anastasia Bevis
Ashton Booth
Everett Bowlin
Thomas Brown
Kaila Doshi
Mia Dowler
Promise Facciponte
Sean Graul
Carly Gregg
Nicole Hiemstra
John Ingersoll
Matthew Kalmans
Mallory Keeler
Rachel Kenner
McKenna Leach
Taylor McMullen
Claire O'Donnell
Tulsi Parikh
Sarah Pendergrass
Hannah Pettit
Nicholas Rhew
Anna Rigo
Asher RIgo
Eleanor Ryan
Abbigayle Scott
Presley Schumate
Estus Stephens
Keagan Theron
Sutton Walsh
Kaitlyn Young
Lia Zitvar