About Us

Since 2000, Global Girls has guided thousands of girls along their path of self-discovery. We provide a safe space where all girls feel heard, honored, and accepted.

In acting and dance training, each girl is challenged to step outside her comfort zone, discover her unique talent and style and then step on stage to “glow up”.
We are committed to building sisterhoods that prioritize the Global Girls values: integrity, curiosity kindness and grit.

Join Us

We invite all girls, ages six to fourteen, to join Global Girls. Whether you’re an experienced actress, dancer, singer, or you’ve never even thought of performing, you have a place in Global Girls.

We will train anyone who comes through our doors. And if performing is not your thing, you can still have a great time growing into the best version of yourself.

Register today for our after-school program (Young Women on the Move), the Saturday (Performance Intensive), or our Youth Performance Camp (seven weeks of intensive performance training and social/emotional development). Learn more about Global Girls’ core programs on the programs page.

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This Is Us

Vision

We envision girls growing into womanhood whole, healthy, and using their voices and creativity to move people to action, to conscious and continuous growth and to sustaining culturally rich thriving communities.

Mission

Global Girls’ mission is to promote the mental, physical, and emotional development of Black girls by engaging them in the performing arts and providing a platform for them to learn, develop agency in community, and use their voices to address issues impacting their generation. We bolster communication, leadership and performance skills as well as inspire them to use their voices on and off stage to advocate for all girls.

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Come As You Are. Leave a Rising Star.

“If you can dream it, you can achieve it,” is a common refrain in Global Girls. We dream great dreams and work to make them come true.

In addition to performing on stages in Chicago and across Illinois, girls from the south side of Chicago have traveled internationally with Global Girls to Ghana, Kenya, London, India, Grenada and Tanzania teaching other girls how to use their voices and tell their stories on stage.

We now have branches in East St. Louis, Springfield, Carbondale and soon in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Come and grow with us.

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