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The
Agency
Posted August 2010
Innovations theatre school
now has an agency to help our amazingly talented
students to get work doing what they love
most! This is run by our own Anne MacIntyre,
please contact her for more
information.
Scapino
Class
Posted August 2010
The Scapino
class won the Gorey Active Retirement
Talent Competition, which is held as apart of
Gorey's annual Bealtine Festival.
Gorey
Student of the Year
Posted August 2010
The wonderful Ciara Hughes is
the 2010 Gorey student of the year. Well
done Ciara.
Arklow
Student of the Year
Posted August 2010
The fantastic Jessica Davis
is the 2010 Avoca/Arklow student of the
year. Congratulations Jessica.
Deirdre
Short Memorial Award
Posted August 2010
This year's recipient of the Deirdre
Short Memorial Award for Most Promising Student is
the amazing Karla Tracey. Keep going
Karla.
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Talent
Show Shillelagh
Posted 18 December
2009
Congratulations
to Áine Collier and Myles Wafer who won 1st place
in the u-16 Irish Dance category in the Grand
Final of the 'Search for a Star', which was held
in Parkview house in Shillelagh on Sunday 6th
December.
Áine and Myles
are both students of Innovations Theatre School
Gorey and the Laura Kitt School of Irish
Dance.
Rosie
Byrne is Student of the Year in
Gorey!
Posted 27 April
2009
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Following the
final performance of Oliver! on Saturday 25
April, the title of Student of the Year was
awarded to Scaramouche student Rosie Byrne (seen
here after appearing as Widow
Corney). |
The Student of
the Year Award is an annual award that goes to the
student who has made substantial progress during
the year, who has shown real focus, determination
and desire to achieve. The teachers vote from a
shortlist of five or six nominees, and the winner
is announced on the last night of the Spring
show.
Also nominated
for the 2009 Student of the Year were Aine
Collier, Saoirse Comerford, Tony Glavin and Orla
Hughes.
The award was
presented to Rosie along with flowers given by the
2008 Student of the Year, Maeve O'Keeffe, who also
appeared in Oliver!
Innovations Students in
Avonmore's 30th Anniversary
Show!
Posted 06 April
2009
Innovations
talent will be on display in the Avonmore Musical
Society's upcoming presentation of the
ever-popular Guys and
Dolls. As well as current Innovations students
Tara Sterling-Byrne, Angela Sheehy, Jonny Holden,
Shauna Crooke and Josh Wade, a number of past
Innovations/ PASS students are taking part in this
special 30th Anniversary show.
The show runs
from Tuesday 14 April to Saturday 18 April in St.
Mary's College Hall, Arklow. Tickets cost from 13
euro and are available from Patrick on 0894117396.
For more information, you can visit www.avonmoremusicalsociety.com.
Denise to
go on US Tour
Posted 10 January
2009
Innovations
singing teacher Denise Brennan is taking to the
stage with The Dublin Philharmonic Orchestra on a
tour of the US this year singing Isle of Hope,
Caladonia, Na Bris Andiu mo Chride from Deirdre of
the Sorrows, Suantrai and many more. She is also
featured on an Irish album with The Dublin
Philharmonic Orchestra and many more to be
promoted on tour….watch this space! For tour
dates, venues and tickets log onto The Dublin
Philharmonic Orchestra website. For tour dates and
venues you can log onto www.denisebrennan.ie.
Masquerade
One-Acts
Posted 02 November
2008
This week marks
another appearance of an Innovations student in a
Masquerade production following Conal O'Shiel and
Christine Mangan's turns in last April's Portia Coughlin. Current
Imp Ink member and past Innovations student
Stephen Duignan will be appearing in a two-man
play as part of Masquerade's
annual one-act plays, which run from Wednesday 5th
to Friday 7th at 8.00pm in the Arklow Bay Hotel,
and due to popular demand, again on Friday 14th in
Lawless' Hotel in Aughrim. Admission is 12 euro -
for more information, call 086 325
9780.
Jonny in
JAM!
Posted 28 October
2008
Innovations
student Jonny Holden was recently selected to take
part in RTÉ's JAM The Musical. Jonny is one of
just 15 lucky performers who were whittled down
from the many that attended the open auditions for
RTÉ's popular show.
JAM will be
shown all this week on RTÉ TWO at 11am and is
repeated at 4pm. From RTÉ's website: "Over the
week the performers will be mentored by Ireland's
top musical theatre performers - Peter Corry,
Aoife Mulholland and Rebecca Storm. On Friday,
October 31st, the three groups will go head to
head in the ultimate musical battle in front of a
live audience where the public will get to vote
for which group they think performed the
best."
Jonny is not the
first Innovations student to be chosen for JAM -
past pupil Leah Penston appeared on the show in
2007.
Jonny was also
part of Innovations' recent 12-day tour to America
with An
Croí: Irish
Heart.
Coincidentally,
during the week, mentor Aoife Mulholland, a former
pupil of Anne Shumate
during her Performing Arts School Galway days,
brought in choreographer Paula McGuirell, who
originally choreographed the first act of
An
Croí: Irish
Heart!
Innovations in
USA
Posted 01 September
2008
15 senior and
past Innovations students are just back from a
12-day tour in the USA where they performed
An
Croí: Irish
Heart for the city of
Mitchell, South Dakota. Known as "the Irish
Ambassadors", they travelled across three states
and performed An
Croí
in full and in part in all
sorts of venues, from theatres to street festivals
to baseball games!
The students are
Rachel Bothwell, Shauna Crooke, Stephen Duignan,
Emma Foster, Jonny Holden, Kathleen Holden,
Jessica Jenkinson, Mark McGann, Sarah Morris,
David Mulrooney, Eoin O'Grady, Conal O'Shiel, Sean
Roper-Nolan, Tanis Tonge and Emma Wall.
The students
will bring their international tour to a close on
Friday, September 5 when they present An
Croí in St.
Mary's College, Arklow. Details of that
performance can be found here.
Website
gets new look
Posted 01 September
2008
There have been
a few changes around Innovations Theatre School
Online. The site has been completely redesigned
with the intention of making the site A) easier
for you to navigate and B) easier for us to
update. This means that hopefully there will be
more frequent updates to the site. Navigation of
the site has been made easier with simplified
links across the top each page and with the
addition of a brief site directory along the
bottom of each page. And if you still can't find what
you're looking for, we've also added a search
engine, also found at the top of each
page.
Innovations Students in
Masquerade production
Posted 03 March
2008
Three
Innovations Theatre School students are involved
in the upcoming Masquerade production of Portia Coughlin, the
award-winning play by Irish playwright Marina
Carr. Conal
O'Shiel and Christine
Mangan will both be appearing on stage while
Caoimhe Duignan will be helping behind the scenes.
The play will
run for four nights from Tuesday 15 to Friday 18
April, 8.00 p.m. nightly. Visit Masquerade's
website here for more
information...
DeniseBrennan.ie Now Online
Posted 28 February
2008
Innovations
singing teacher Denise Brennan's website is now
online here! The
site contains the latest news regarding upcoming
gigs and concerts, as well as info about her debut
album "Sailing with the
Wind". Look out for news regarding
her new single "Ever and Ever" in the upcoming
months...
Field Trip to Project
Theatre
Posted 30 September
2007
Last month a
group of Innovations students went on a 'field
trip' to the Project
Theatre in Templebar,
Dublin to see Dublin Youth Theatre's 30th
Anniversary production This Is Still Life.
Denise Brennan in
Concert
Posted 30 September
2007
To launch her
new album "Sailing with
the Wind" Innovations teacher Denise
Brennan will be performing in concert on
October 18 in the Arklow Bay Hotel. Joining her
are special guests Jason E. Bernard (American
tap-dancer with Riverdance), soprano quartet
Celtic Harmony, tenor Michael Flood and
flute-player Pat Fitzpatrick. Also performing are
several Innovations students! Tickets can be
booked at www.ticketsireland.com.
Avoca's
10 Years Old!
Posted 10 August
2007
Not the town -
the school, of course. Originally set up as
Performing Arts Stage School, Innovations Theatre
School Avoca is now 10 years old. To celebrate
that fact, this December the Avoca school will be
presenting a 10th Anniversary show - Charles
Dickens's A Christmas
Carol. As part of this 10th Anniversary
celebration, there will also a reunion party for
past pupils and teachers on one of the nights of
A Christmas Carol.
A show such as
this deserves a better venue than the Arklow Bay
Hotel, so the decision has been made to present A Christmas Carol in the
Gorey Little Theatre. (Don't worry students - all
rehearsals will still take place in Avoca!) The
show will be performed during the first week of
December.
Changing
Places
Posted 10 August
2007
While there will
be no new additions to the Innovations Gorey
staff, come September, there will be a few
changes. Erin
Klatt will no longer be teaching
drama on a regular basis, instead taking up the
task of administration, the post formerly held in
Gorey by school director Anne Shumate. So,
filling Erin’s shoes is Avoca dance teacher Anne
McIntyre.
Sailing
With The Wind
Posted 10 August
2007
On October 18,
Innovations singing teacher Denise Brennan will be
launching her first album, Sailing With The Wind, a
collection of Celtic songs, including many penned
by Denise herself. In conjunction with the release
of the album, a new website www.denisebrennan.ie will
be going online soon…
Summer
School Success!
Posted 10 August
2007
July’s Summer
Theatre School was a huge hit and will no doubt
become an annual part of Innovations. Well done to
everyone involved!
St.
Patrick's Day Success for
Innovations
Posted 19 March
2007
The luck of the
Irish was definitely with Innovations Theatre
School this St. Patrick's Day with Laura Kitt's
School of Irish Dancing winning second prize in
the Gorey Parade. The judges were treated to some
excellent Irish dancing as well as the spectacle
of St. Patrick fighting off a giant
snake!
Innovations Outside
Innovations
Posted 26 February
2007
At Innovations
Theatre School, we encourage students to take what
they have learned here and perform wherever they
can. So, all this week Innovations students are
involved in outside productions. From Tuesday to
Friday P.A.C.E. Award winner Stephen Duignan is
appearing in Masquerade's
Red Roses and Petrol 8 p.m. nightly in the Arklow
Bay Hotel, and on Wednesday many students from
Innovations Gorey will be taking part in
Showstoppers, a charity concert in aid of the Share A Dream
Foundation at 8 p.m. in Gorey
Little Theatre.
Innovations on
Masquerade.ie
Posted 6 December
2006
Masquerade.ie - the
official website of the Masquerade Drama Group
Arklow - has posted photos from Innovations
Theatre School's recent production of It's Christmas! on their
News page.
Previous posts
include pictures from past Innovations Theatre
School productions Midsummer Madness (With
Apologies to Shakespeare) and White Hot and
Different. Click
here to check them
out.
A big thanks to
Masquerade for their support in the run-up to and
during It's
Christmas!
Innovations Students in Gorey
Panto
Posted 9 November
2006
Many students
from both Innovations Theatre Schools Avoca and
Gorey recently landed roles in Gorey Little
Theatre Group's upcoming production, the pantomime
Ole King Cole, with
Stephen Duignan and
Tanis Tonge cast in
the principal boy and girl parts.
Other
Innovations students taking part in the show are
Morgan Bonney, Caoimhe Duignan, Jessica Saunders
and Ellen Whelan from Avoca, and Sarah
Augustt, Kiera Butterly, Saoirse Comerford,
Aisling Conway, Karen Dunbar, Donna Hassett,
Caolan Kelly, Clodagh Leacy, Sara Jane Mangan,
Maeve O'Keeffe and Colleen O'Reilly from
Gorey.
In addition to
many Innovations students appearing in the
production, Innovations teachers are also involved
- drama teacher Erin
Klatt will be appearing on stage
and dance teacher Áine Kavanagh is currently
choreographing the show.
Following on
from this year's successful Jack and the Beanstalk,
Ole King Cole will be
taking taking place in January 2007 - for full
details, head over to Gorey Little Theatre Group's
website here!
Kiera
Byrne Launches CD
Posted 9 November
2006
Kiera Byrne of
the Innovations Theatre School
Gorey
made her first step into the
music business with the launch of her own CD this
summer.
Simply titled Kiera Byrne, the CD was
released on Friday 14 July and features covers of
favourites such as I Will
Always Love You, Runaway and Man! I Feel Like A Woman!
Keira (17) is noted among the school for her
stunning performance as Puck in Innovations'
Midsummer
Madness, stopping the show with
songs like Can You Feel
the Love Tonight?
The release of
her first CD hasn't stopped Keira – there's
already another CD in progress that the
Innovations student hopes to launch
soon.
Innovations Branches
Out
Posted 9 November
2006
Laura Kitt, who recently
received the TCRG exam in Irish dancing, is
currently teaching a new Innovations class in
Irish dance that started on September 16. Classes
take place every Saturday in Gorey Community
College from 3.00 p.m. to 4.00 p.m.
This new class
is separate to the main Innovations course, and is
entirely optional. In turn, this class is also
open to students outside of Innovations Theatre
School. The class is currently made up of all
levels until Laura has a better idea of the
students' abilities.
You can check
out the Innovations Irish dancing class when they
present their piece in our upcoming concert It's
Christmas!
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