about stageworks ltd
Junior Star winners 2008
Age 14 - 16
1st Florence Tavener 3rd Cara Wrightson
StageWorks Performing Arts School started in 2000 in Henley on Thames, expanded in 2004 to Bristol and then to Benson and Cookham in 2007.
StageWorks Ltd has over 250 students in schools around Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Gloucestershire and more recently franchised the Bristol branch to Mark Williams.
StageWorks has high standards and a very good reputation in the Performing Arts, which is being recognised throughout the local areas. We bring our high standards to all our schools and hope that each student will enjoy their time with us. In recent years the students at StageWorks achieved the following:
- 14-16 year old students closed the Gala night of the Youth Festival in Henley in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009..
- Junior Star results 2008 Age 7 – 8 1st Rosie Tong, 2nd Oliver Riley Age 10 – 11 1st Harry Stott 2nd Anna Price 3rd Jennifer and Adam Clarke Age 14 – 16 Isobel Wright. Overall winner Isobel Wright.
10 year old students performed at the Shiplake Carnival in 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008 - Harry Stott was Michael Banks in the West End run of Mary Poppins, appeared in a series of Roman Mysteries on the BBC and is currently starring as Oliver in the West End.
- Harry won the title role of Oliver in the BBC1 show I'd Do Anything. He started his run at The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in January 2009 having impressed Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber and Sir Cameron Mackintosh.
- Angharad Jones has been working with the EJ Dancers Cabaret Troupe and as an extra in the new St Trinians film.
- Jennifer Clark has performed in Annie and Summer Holiday at the Hexagon, Reading.
- Isobel Wright, Olivia Shanahan and Cara Wrightson performed in West Side Story at the Kenton Theatre, Henley. Which was directed by Lloyd White and Choreographed by Emma-Jane Taylor. The HAODS musical won an award for its chorus work.
- 14-16 year old students performed a superb drama act in the Arts Festival, Oxfordshire.
- Angharad Jones, Olivia Shanahan, Cara Wrightson, Jasmine Belcher and Isobel Wright are now working for StageWorks as student teachers.
- Angharad and Olivia appeared as Can Can dancers in Calamity Jane at the Kenton Theatre, Henley.
- 22 students worked as extras in 2007 in the remake of St Trinians with Colin Firth and Rupert Everett
- Several students from Henley have been shortlisted for the Sound of Music in the West End and more recently we have had some interest from casting directors on Billy Elliott.
- Eleanor Adams played Alice in the London Film Festival film The Seer (2008).
uniform and class information
Black and white in any combination. All students must have correct footwear i.e. jazz shoes and tap shoes. Mobile phones MUST be switched off during class time. Loose fitting clothes must be worn and hair must be tied up and off the face. NO jewellery to be worn at anytime.
All classes start on time and students should arrive and be dropped off 5 minutes before class starts.
staff
All staff are trained, CRB checked, qualified and experienced in the Performing Arts. There is a training scheme for junior teachers wanting to move into the performing arts.
StageWorks prides itself on having a young, dynamic and positive team whose main aim is to encourage the children in the Performing Arts. The team meet once a term to make sure they are working to the same standards. All the staff take time to work with each student individually. Whilst all the staff work hard there is also a lot of fun and the atmosphere throughout the year is what makes StageWorks one of the most desirable schools to join in the local area.
StageWorks assessments
StageWorks offer regular assessments to all the students at StageWorks. This is done 3 times a year to encourage the children and keep everyone working to the same standards. It is a progressive assessment.
The younger children (4-9) don’t take part in the assessments but are regularly monitored with achievement awards and stickers.
chaperones
StageWorks offer CRB checked chaperones at all of its shows. If you are interested in
becoming a StageWorks chaperone then please call 01628 898038.