Congratulations to our Artist of the Month for September, Hannah Brewer! Hannah’s acting career began when she was 6 years old in the homeschool community, and she has never looked back. She began acting with NTPA as a sophomore in high school and now works as an Associate Resident Director. Hannah [...]
NORTH TEXAS PERFORMING ARTS announces that it has been the recipient of an emergency SBA Economic Injury Disaster Loan through the support of Congressman Van Taylor. The loan was requested as one element of many NTPA fundraising efforts to keep its doors open in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic. “We rely on over [...]
NTPA – Academy Provides Support to Families Opting In to Online Public School Safe, Flexible Programs in Plano, Dallas, Fairview and Frisco North Texas Performing Arts - Academy has made curriculum enhancements allowing students to combine their public school online and modified schedule plans with NTPA’s elite performing arts curriculum for the [...]
Congratulations to our Artist of the Month, Gregory McKnight! Gregory is a seasoned theater technician having worked tech at many venues in DFW over the past 18 years. He has found a home at NTPA as the Technical Director and enjoys guiding students and parents to discover the joys of technical theater much [...]
Congratulations to our Artist of the Month - Lindsey Lederer! Lindsey Lederer, the VP of Youth Theatres here at NTPA, is also a proud alumni of our program. After graduating, she joined the NTPA creative team in 2011 as a summer camp teacher. She has served as a Summer Intern, a Director, an assistant in [...]
Please join us in welcoming Riley Gray who has joined the NTPA staff to serve as Managing Director of the NTPA - Starcatchers Theatre Troupe. NTPA - Starcatchers is the preeminent cognitive disabilities theatre and therapeutic drama program in North Texas. Riley graduated Cum Laude from Ball State University in 2016, where [...]
NTPA is proud to announce our newest Resident Director, Jason Robert Villarreal! Jason began his journey with the performing arts studying the dance Ballet Folklorico in his hometown and Texas border city, Edinburg, where Hispanic culture thrives. In 2006 he moved to Dallas to attend The University of Texas at Arlington where he graduated [...]
Congratulations to our Artist of the Month - DeeDee Munson! DeeDee has been teaching dance & educating students since 1991. She is the former General Manager/Artistic Director for the Power House of Dance. Her credits include Kilgore College Rangerette, Stephen F. Austin Repertory Company Member, Stephen F. Austin Pom Squad member and coach, [...]
NTPA is proud to announce our newest Resident Director, Ms. Kally Duncan! Kally grew up surrounded by theatre and started acting at the age of 6. Her first show was "Anything Goes" and once she got a taste of the spotlight she never looked back. She received her BFA in Acting and minor in Directing [...]
Congratulations to NTPA Academy student Amanda Reid on booking her first film role as a pageant contestant in “Miss Juneteenth,” a local independent movie filmed in Ft. Worth, TX. The film premiered at Sundance and was selected for SXSW, before it was cancelled due to coronavirus. Juneteenth commemorates the emancipation from slavery in Texas on [...]
