We always love hearing from our former pupils and are delighted that our recent leavers are settling in well on their performing arts courses around the country.  We are particularly delighted that Toby Turley (currently in his second year at Guildford School of Acting) has been cast as an actor in Birmingham Royal Ballet's production of The Nutcracker at the Royal Albert Hall this Christmas.

Our Competition pupils have had a busy few weeks competing in festivals in Wales and the South West and have brought home 68 Gold, Silver and Bronze medals, 16 Teacher Awards for choreography and 17 trophies.

We are thrilled to announce that Jake Halsey-Jones, who was part of our Cats cast and who sang in this summer's show You'll Be In

My Heart, has been given his first West End break.  Jake will be a member of the Hamilton cast and will be understudy for two Principal roles, including the role of Hamilton.

We were thrilled to see four of our pupils on the Octagon Theatre stage in Yeovil in the YAOS production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.  Elsie-May, Megan and Martha had roles in the chorus whilst Fenella took the lead role of Jemima Potts.

The two week run was a great success and we are so proud of the girls.

90 pupils took exams in RAD Ballet and ISTD Modern and Tap this summer and we are so proud of their achievements.

In Ballet pupils took exams from Grade 1 to Advanced Foundation and 26 pupils received Distinction and 30 received Merit, with 4 successful Class Awards.  Top marks went to Ebony with 86% for Grade 5.

In ISTD exams from Grade 1 to Intermediate, there were 12 Distinctions, 17 Merits and 1 Pass.  3 pupils achieved marks of 90% or over, Grace 90% for Intermediate Modern, Martha 91% and Megan 92% both for Grade 1 Tap.

Well done to everyone who worked so hard for yet another set of excellent results.

What an amazing set of workshops we have had with Andrew Chadwick.  Andrew worked with three different age groups who loved learning numbers from The Addams Family, Mary Poppins, A Chorus Line as well as a lyrical and contemporary/jazz fusion piece.  Pupils loved talking to Andrew about his experiences on the West End stage.

We are incredibly proud of our Senior Pupil Grace who has been auditioning for some of the top performing arts colleges in the UK.  Grace received offers from Performers College and London Studio Centre, as well as being offered a full scholarship at Laine Theatre Arts and will take up her scholarship place at Laine in September.  We wish her the very best of luck .

We were delighted to be asked to take part in this year's Lions Concert at Strode Theatre.  Pupils performed a variety of numbers from our recent show Broadway & Beyond to a very appreciative audience.  Well done to you all.

After 5 months of rehearsals our Broadway & Beyond cast of 85 pupils went onstage this week and absolutely smashed it.  They did everything we asked them to, and more, and we are so proud of each and every one of you.

Pupils are celebrating another great set of RAD Ballet Exam results, with 23 pupils taking exams ranging from Grade 2 to Grade 8 and over half of them being awarded Distinctions.  Overall, pupils achieved 12 Distinctions, 6 Merits, 3 Passes and 2 successful Class Awards.  Highest marks went to Fenella who received 92% for Grade 2 and Bethan who received 90% for Grade 3.  Huge congratulations to everyone.

Congratulations to Senior Pupil and Teaching Assistant Liv who has been offered and has accepted a place at East 15 Acting School for September.  Liv has had many prominent roles in our recent productions, including Charity Barnum in our 2017 production, and will be starring as Roberta in Hordern Ciani's production of The Railway Children in July.

We were very excited today to be holding the second of our 2019 workshops led by industry professionals. 

Professional dancer Stacey Dorling gave pupils an insight into the commercial side of dance and the music video industry.

Stacey has just performed with Sam Smith and Calvin Harris at this year’s Brit Awards. She has also appeared on Top of the Pops, Children in Need, the Olympics Closing Ceremony, danced live for Fleur East and performed in several music videos including KDA featuring Tinie Tempah and Katy B for Turn The Music Louder.

Pupils had a fantastic time.

We are immensely grateful to our amazing Patron, West End Director and Choreographer Andrew Wright, who spent his Easter Saturday at the Studio giving three fabulous workshops to our lucky pupils.  They learned choreography from three of Andrew's shows, Nativity, Cats and Singin' in the Rain and everyone had a thoroughly brilliant time.  Thank you so much Andrew.  He has also choreographed rehearsed a number for Broadway & Beyond which we can't wait to perform in our show in May.