Footlight Players youth theater company provides young people opportunities to discover their creativity in a safe, nurturing environment led by professional teaching artists.
We're open to all youth with a desire to explore their creative talents. Everyone, regardless of experience, gets a role and participates in theater-making. "Players" enjoy a month-long youth theater day camp. Younger children participate as "Campers." A teen "Academy" level is provided for older children.
The program concludes with public performances by the entire Footlight Company.
Advance Tickets are available in the IUP Marketplace for a Festival of Performances from Friday, July 12, to Sunday, July 14. Tickets at the door are cash or checks only.
Performance Schedule
To be announced soon!
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Footlight is…
Performances
Everyone gets a chance to perform a role or choose to crew backstage in the Festival of Plays.
Workshops
Creative workshops in acting, music, dance, playwriting, puppetry, improvisation, costume, technical theater, and more to help you become the best that you can be!
A Whole Lotta Fun
Lunchbox theater, dress-up days, and an overnight lock-in are just some examples of themed days making Footlights extra fun!
Footlight Players is June 16–July 12, 2025
Footlight Players receives funding from the Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts (PPA), the regional arts funding partnership of the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. State government funding comes through an annual appropriation by Pennsylvania’s General Assembly and from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.