Rosaura Cruz currently serves as Junior Players Executive Director, but her engagement with Junior Players is all-encompassing, she is a Junior Players student alumna, was the 2003 Junior Players Texas Commission of the Arts summer intern, a former theater and dance teacher, and Junior Players previous Program Director.

Since stepping into her current role in 2015, she has led Junior Players through many new and creative initiatives, including producing and broadening Junior Players artistic production seasons, co-creation of Junior Players Presents: The Transformation Project, arts-centric panel conversations, a myriad of community collaborations, the co-creation of the D-PAC (Dallas ISD Playwriting Arts Collective) collaboration, the conception of the Transformation Project’s Residency program, and the creation of the 2017 Youth in Arts Panel: Create, Transform, Heal. She has a demonstrated history of working in the non-profit management industry and is responsible for the overall direction of the agency and artistic quality of the agency.

Additionally, Rosaura is currently represented by The Campbell Agency and served on the 2016/2017 Mayor's Star Council Leadership class as well as serving as the 2018/2019 Mayor's Star Council Development Chair. She also serves as a Board member of The Greater North Texas Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and is a member of Altrusa Dallas on the Service Committee. Most recently, she was a distinguished honoree of the 2020 Dallas Business Journal’s 40 under 40 cohort.

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