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SUPPORTING OUR COMMUNITY

We appreciate extra activities such as StageWorks come at further cost, often putting many families under much stress and leaving children missing out on wonderful opportunities such as StageWorks and our brilliant productions across the year. Because of this, and of our commitment to working with children in the local areas, we offer families that need support various opportunities for their child to take part. Because we don’t believe that children should be excluded.

In the first instance we invite parents/ guardians to a face-to-face meeting with our Founder and Principal, Emma Jane Taylor. This discretionary meeting gets the ball rolling to find the best solution for each family/and for Stageworks as a business. We are helping many families across the Thames Valley currently, and would love to help you where we can; there is always a way! Please use our contacts page to arrange an initial meeting.

message from our principal

I opened StageWorks Performing Arts School in 2000 to give children an opportunity to enjoy something I did as a child; performing. Performing gave me hope during my younger years and I will always be grateful to have had that opportunity.

I am highly trained in performing arts and also in fitness & wellbeing. I have been choreographing shows since I was 3 years old; tap-dance being my speciality. I have worked with Simon Williams, Rula Lenska, Bruno Brookes, Peter Purvis, Mike Reid, Bon Jovi, Toby Cruse, Vince Hill, Mike Holoway to name but a few and use my skills along with my management and business processes to ensure StageWorks develops safely within my community for young people, whilst maintaining the high standards we are known for in the industry. Throughout my years I have watched and learnt a lot of things about the entertainment industry. I have also done a lot of research around a child’s brain development and firmly believe the Performing Arts is a positive and creative environment that gives children of all ages confidence, self belief and determination - and more importantly, in the early 'informative' years (3/4- 8), a creativity that helps develop the skills necessary for so much of their young life - and regardless of whether they continue with this field into their adult life, the skills they learn on their own will be a huge success for their future.

OUR SUCCESSES

Over our 25 years we have trained many students, some of whom have gone on to perform professionally in the West End, Broadway, Film, Stage and TV - Tea & Cake (London Film Festival), Waffle the Wonderdog (BBC), St Trinians movie, various commercials (ITV), The King and I (Albert Hall), Matilda (West End and on Broadway), Oliver (West End), Disney (SKY), Mission Impossible III (Tom Cruise), All is True (Dame Judi Dench and Sir Ian McLellan), we have even trained international rockstars and producers of major productions. We are very proud of students Francesca Moody (Fleabag & Baby Reindeer), Harry Stott (West End star - Oliver/ Mary Poppins, I'd Do Anything TV Show with Andrew Lloyd Webber), Ted Wilson (Eric in Matilda - West End AND on Broadway), Sophie Lloyd (Global Mega Rockstar with over 3 million followers on all platforms) - and even Toby Marlow (writer; Six the Musical) attended StageWorks.