Stagecoach Portsmouth

DANCE! SING! ACT!
 
As part of the largest network of part time performing arts schools in the UK, Stagecoach Portmouth is more than just a stage school with its warm family atmosphere, nurturing confidence and talent in students of all abilities.

NO EXPERIENCE IS NECESSARY and your child can trial the classes for two weeks before you commit to a whole term.

WE ALSO PROVIDE:

  • Private LAMDA exam coaching and entrance.
  • Agency for representation.
  • PERFORMING ARTS Exams which provide your child with valuable OFQUAL registered education credits to enhance their school career.
  • West End Gala's
  • Annual production 
  • Perform and work with West End Professionals
  • Top West End and film casting director workshops
  • Performance trips to Disneyland Paris!
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  • Approved Duke of Edinburgh Award Skills Assessor - Do your DoE with us!

You can be sure of a warm welcome at STAGECOACH PORTSMOUTH!

Principal Valerie Weyland

Your child is in safe hands. All of our Team are Enhanced DBS checked.


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Welcome!

DANCE! SING! ACT! EXCITING NEWS! A BRAND NEW PERFORMING ARTS SCHOOL FOR PORTSMOUTH. STAGECOACH PORTSMOUTH is now operating at Portsmouth High School! Sessions for 4-18 years! BOOK NOW! TWO-WEEK TRIALS! NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY!

Duke of Edinburgh's Award

We are officially Approved Assessors for the Duke of Edinburgh awards. Students are able to complete their Physical, Skills or Volunteering sections of the award with us.

LAMDA Qualifications

As an option we also London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts private coaching and exam entrance to our students. These exams are the gold standard in speech and drama exams. They carry UCAS points from Grade 6 upwards.

Weekly Classes

Early Stages (for ages 4-6 yrs)

Stagecoach Early Stages
Early Stages classes run alongside the main Stagecoach schools, where young people learn skills in each of the three Musical Theatre disciplines of singing, dancing & drama, so it is an easy step when it is time to transfer to the next stage.

(90 minutes each week)

Main Stages (for ages 6-18 yrs)

Stagecoach Main Stages
Main Stages classes are split in three age appropriate groups, where young people learn new skills in each of the complementary Musical Theatre disciplines of singing, dancing & drama. We nurture the shy and apprehensive, until they find their feet and voice, whilst at the same time developing and channelling those with bundles of talent, confidence and energy. We believe in the potential of every child!

(3 hrs each week)

Further Stages (for ages 15+ yrs)

Stagecoach Further Stages
Our advanced musical theatre sessions give talented students the chance to extend their performance skills.  Through in-depth training and master classes, we help students to hone their skills in singing, dancing and acting.  We also give students the confidence to audition for theatre and vocational drama schools (if that is their goal) and make sure they are well prepared for interviews and auditions. 

Fees in accordance with Main Stages.

Holiday Workshops

Meet The Team

Principal - Valerie Weyland

Valerie trained at Redroofs Theatre School, at LAMDA and Teatre de Complicite.
 
An actress for 20 years and performing in West End productions such as BLOOD BROTHERS and THE MOUSETRAP, Valerie worked extensively as an actress in both dramas and musical theatre. She toured nationally and internationally and appeared on television both as an actress and as a backing singer for TAKE THAT! She was also soloist with the BBC Radio Concert Orchestra and a regular guest on Radio Five's AFTER HOURS.
 
As a writer she won the Barclays New Play award, The Westminster Prize and was regularly comissioned for stage and film, with her work being performed at the Royal National Theatre.
 
She latterly went into casting and then production and was Associate Producer on many commercial dramas and musicals before winning the Society of London Theatre's New Producer's Bursary and producing her own commercial productions which toured nationally, working with celebrities and distinguished actors.
 
Valerie is delighted to be running Stagecoach Portsmouth nuturing new talent and increasing student's confidence for whatever role they choose in life, believing that every child has a talent and that skills learned at Stagecoach will support them the whole of their lives.

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