Kids Singing Templeogue at showstoppers stage school
Kids Singing Templeogue at showstoppers stage school
Kids Singing Templeogue at showstoppers stage school
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ELAINE HEARTY -DIRECTOR
Elaine graduated with distinction from D.I.T Conservatory of Music and Drama, having studied Speech and Drama from 1996-1999. Since then her roles have included Chava/Hodel in Fiddler on the Roof (Gaiety), Ado Annie in "Oklahoma" (Gaiety/Cork Opera House/Civic Theatre Tallaght), Belle in "Beauty and the Beast" (St. Anthony's Theatre), The Merrow in "Quest 2- The Good People Try Harder (Pavillion, Dun Laoghaire), The Pianist in " Death of Cabaret" (Dublin Fringe Festival), Lucy in the Irish Premiere of the RSC's production of "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" (Cork Opera House), Sharon in "A Slice of Saturday Night" (Spirit), Alice in "Alice the Musical" (Marketplace Theatre Armagh/Pavillion Dun Laoghaire) Sharon in Shay Healy's new musical "Santa's Magical Mystery" (Irish Tour), Kirsty in Seagulls Dance for two Irish workshops and the world premiere in the Draoicht, Pam in "The Vagina Monologues" alongside Fenella Fielding(Dublin/Clonmel Tour) Maureen in "Rent" (Cork Opera House/Wexford Opera House), Listen to my Heart- National Concert Hall and Irish Tour, Elvis is my Daddy- Olympia Theatre and Irish Tour. Nora in Angelas Ashes the musical- Bord Gais Energy Theatre, Limetree in Limerick, and Belfast Opera House. She most recently performed with Northern Ireland Opera, in Sweeney Todd at the Lyric Theatre.
TV Credits Damo and Ivor, Fair City, she played Maeve for an Eircom Phonewatch Ad, a DID electrical ad (singing to a dishwasher!), and Electric Ireland Ad. Her film credits include City of Ember, The Exorcism Diaries, Princess Rehab, and Perspectives. Her voice credits include American Cartoon Series "Dad the Impaler", AIB, Permanent TSB, Munster v's All Blacks, Fruice, Renault, Supervalu, Meteor, VHI Dentalcare, Trocaire, Cinderella (Overdub), Annbrook house hotel, Cafe En Seine, Kerrygold and she is currently recording for Folens Primary School syllabus. She plays 3 characters in "Joe and Jack" a cartoon series showing on RTE/ Tinypop.
Elaine is an accomplished singer/songwriter and won the 2fm Song contest in 1998 with her own composition. She has made several appearances on programmes such as The Late Late Show, 2TV, The Den, Echo Island, TX, Popscene, PM Live and various radio programmes. She recorded a single for Telethon with Irish artists such as Linda Martin, Paul Harrington, Frances Black and Gavin Friday and reached number one in the Irish charts. Elaine has been a soloist in the National Concert Hall in shows such as "A Celebration of Song", "Joe Conlan and Friends" "A Century of Song" and the AIMS Concert. Elaine played Elphaba from Wicked in "One Voice" - a variety show held in the Gaiety Theatre. She was also a backing vocalist for the talented Josh Groban at the Point Depot.
Elaine set up a production company- "Smart Blondes Productions" with Sorcha Furlong (Fair City), Sarah Flood (Fair City) and Caroline Grace Cassidy (Novelist). Their first short and second shorts "Princess Rehab" and "I am Jesus" were accepted into the Galway Film Fleadh, the San Francisco Irish Film Festival and the Underground Film Festival.
Elaine and her husband Ross set up Singable productions and wrote the music/songs for the RTE Panto "Once Upon A Time at Christmas" They are currently working on the Junior Syllabus for Folens Educational Company.
jjJade is a member of pro crew with Kerry Milne for
Fly Dance Company. She is a 7 time All Ireland champion for Ballroom and Latin American.She completed grades 1 to 8 and intermediate grades with Royal Ballet.
Stage Performances include The 2 Johnnies at the 3 Arena, Electric Picnic and Cork Marquee. Gaiety Panto Dancer, Guinness Storehouse Dancer, Bingo Loco, Keatings shows- The Lion King and The Hunchback of Notre Dame. American Football- Dancer for their arrival.
TV Performances include The Big Deal (Virgin Media) ft Boy George, Bord Gais Ad, Chef Ad, Callan's Kicks (RTE).
jjJade is a member of pro crew with Kerry Milne for
Fly Dance Company. She is a 7 time All Ireland champion for Ballroom and Latin American.She completed grades 1 to 8 and intermediate grades with Royal Ballet.
Stage Performances include The 2 Johnnies at the 3 Arena, Electric Picnic and Cork Marquee. Gaiety Panto Dancer, Guinness Storehouse Dancer, Bingo Loco, Keatings shows- The Lion King and The Hunchback of Notre Dame. American Football- Dancer for their arrival.
TV Performances include The Big Deal (Virgin Media) ft Boy George, Bord Gais Ad, Chef Ad, Callan's Kicks (RTE).
Niamh can currently be seen in The Hen Do, a GBL production that is touring NI and The Grand Opera House, Belfast.
She trained on the Lir's BA Acting course. She is a member of the all-female comedy improv troupe ‘Broad Strokes’ who regularly perform in Dublin. Niamh wrote and directed her first comedy short film 'Dead on Arrival' which will be due for festival release in 2023.
Stage performances include Juliet in "Romeo And Juliet"(The Mill Theatre), Anna in "New Fish" (Smock Alley Theatre), Cathy in "The Last Five Years, Gussie in "Merrily We Roll Along", Frau Binder/The Soprano in "Dalliance", Grusha in "The Caucasian Chalk Circle" Archidaemus/Gaoler/Time in "The Winter's Tale"(The Lir Academy)
CARRIE HASKINS
SINGING TEACHER
Shauna Finn is the founder and director of Infinity Movement LTD. She most recently took part in filming a new Disney movie ‘disenchanted’ along side a Disney pilot episode ‘Epic’. She was on the RTE TV series “Dancing with the Stars” for 3 seasons.
Since a young age she has been representing Ireland competing and training internationally. She has attained exams in numerous styles of dance including Ballet under Royal Academy of Dance, Modern jazz and Hip Hop with Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing, Latin & Ballroom with United Kingdom Alliance and DanceSport Federation of Ireland. She has previously worked in Vienna, America, Brazil and Paris as a performer and dance teacher. Shauna is a qualified teacher with Acrobatic Arts and received a scholarship with Alixa Flexibility. Shauna has appeared in multiple music videos and films including the hit Irish film ‘Sing Street’. Danced alongside Westlife, Riverdance, Wild Youth, Brendan Cole, Des Bishop and The2Johnnies.
Shauna studied Dance at ICFE where she became fascinated with Dance Therapy. She loves working with children and helping them achieve their goal whether it be for a career in dance or just for fun. Her aim of every class is for “every child to have a fun experience and feel more confident like they have accomplished something during the class”. She appeared as a featured vocalist in ‘The Greatest Showman Live’.
Shauna Finn is the founder and director of Infinity Movement LTD. She most recently took part in filming a new Disney movie ‘disenchanted’ along side a Disney pilot episode ‘Epic’. She was on the RTE TV series “Dancing with the Stars” for 3 seasons.
Since a young age she has been representing Ireland competing and training internationally. She has attained exams in numerous styles of dance including Ballet under Royal Academy of Dance, Modern jazz and Hip Hop with Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing, Latin & Ballroom with United Kingdom Alliance and DanceSport Federation of Ireland. She has previously worked in Vienna, America, Brazil and Paris as a performer and dance teacher. Shauna is a qualified teacher with Acrobatic Arts and received a scholarship with Alixa Flexibility. Shauna has appeared in multiple music videos and films including the hit Irish film ‘Sing Street’. Danced alongside Westlife, Riverdance, Wild Youth, Brendan Cole, Des Bishop and The2Johnnies.
Shauna studied Dance at ICFE where she became fascinated with Dance Therapy. She loves working with children and helping them achieve their goal whether it be for a career in dance or just for fun. Her aim of every class is for “every child to have a fun experience and feel more confident like they have accomplished something during the class”. She appeared as a featured vocalist in ‘The Greatest Showman Live’.
Karen has been with Showstoppers Stageschool since a very young age. She has LAMDA qualifications for both Musical Theatre and Solo Acting, earning distinctions in all of her exams.
Karen has just graduated from college with a BA Hons first class in film and creative media at Dublin Business School.
She has been heavily involved in the school for years and has played leads in most shows she's done throughout her training such as "Legally Blonde" "Annie" and "Hairspray". She also performed in the Firhouse Community Center Panto last year as Robyn Hood in "Red Riding Hood".
COREY FOX
MINIS/TOTS TEACHER
CONNOR KIRWAN
LAMDA TEACHER/
SUPERVISOR
Carrie Haskins is a singer songwriter from County Kildare, Ireland and describes her style as an honest blend of American Country and Pop. In 2011, she reached the battle stages of RTE’s ‘The Voice of Ireland’ and continues to study music.
Carrie’s debut EP and music video is available through Star One on Viacom TV and Vevo. and has been described as lyrical and melodic, with lush instrumentation and intertwined harmonies.
Carrie has studied music for a total of six years. Commencing her musical education at the Ballyfermot College of Further Education, her studies continued at the British and Irish Modern Music Institute (BIMM) Dublin, where she completed the song writing stream graduating in 2015 with a B.A Honours Degree in Commercial Modern Music.
Corey has been part of the show stoppers team since 2019. Her training qualifications include all 8 acting Lamda exams completed with distinctions.
She has completed 7 an comdhail Irish dancing grades and has completed her intermediate foundation grade in Ballet. She has competed in many competitions from county level to world level for Irish dancing. Stage performances include RTE panto in 2019 along with various performances in the civic such as Annie in 2019.
Currently she is in her third year of a bachelor of education degree to be a primary school teacher.
Connor is a graduate of LAMDA with a Gold Medal in both acting and Musical theatre exams. He is a current 1st year UCD student studying science.
Connor is an enthusiastic performer pursuing his passion for the arts by teaching and performing in shows such as Matilda and Suessical the Musical jr for Showstoppers, The Mikado, and Aladdin for the R&R and Sound of Music with Festival Productions.
AIMEE BANKS
SINGING TEACHER
An award-winning vocalist Aimee currently holds a number of vocal titles and has been awarded The Irene Sandford Award and Bursary 2022, The Birr Lions Club Bursary at Birr Festival of Music 2022, The Vladimir Piontkovsky Memorial Scholarship At Saluzzo Opera Academy 2022, the Eimear Noonan Music Bursary Award 2020 and The most Promising Performer and Bursary at The Irene Sandford Award 2020.
She was a multi-award winner at Newpark Festival of Music 2023 & Dublin Feis Ceoil 2022, including the Nancy Calthorpe Memorial Cup for French Song. Aimee was also a finalist in the Gervase Elwes Competition and The Charles Wood Music Competition 2022. Aimee received a Silver Award in the 1st Vienna International Music Competition 2019, she is also the most recent Overall Junior Vocalist at Sligo Feis Ceoil.
Aimee is no stranger to solo performances and concerts and has performed in such venues as Carnegie Hall New York USA,The Norman Rockwell Museum USA, The National Concert Hall, Christchurch Cathedral and The National Gallery of Ireland. Aimee also performs regular concerts in her hometown of Galway.She has had the honour of performing at the Irish Government’s launch of the 1916 Commemorations in Dublin’s Convention Centre, National Famine Commemoration in 2020 and has also performed at Áras an Uachtaráin for the President of Ireland Micheal D.Higgins.
Aimee debuted as the young Giordano Bruno in Roger Doyle’s Opera, 'Heresy', where she received commendation from Opera World, The Irish Times and Opera Today.
She played the roles of Amore and Damigella in Monteverdi’s L'incoronazione di Poppea at Saluzzo Opera Academy 2022, and performed the role of Damigella in RIAM Opera’s production of La liberazione di Ruggiero dall'isola d'Alcina written by Francesca Caccini.
ERICA STOKES
SINGING TEACHER
Erica is a graduate of Commercial Modern Music from BIMM Dublin with a 2:1 Hons degree and is now completing a masters in Primary School Education in Marino college.
She has been a proud member of the Rathmines and Rathgar Musical Society and participated in many of their previous shows. She is also a member of "The Honeydews", a trio that put jazz spins on modern songs.
RORY HUGHES
LAMDA TEACHER
Originally from Pittsburgh, PA. Graduated from Syracuse University receiving a BFA in Musical Theatre. Once he graduated he performed in shows regionally before moving to New York City in 2001. He is most proud performing in Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center as well as with the charity event ‘Broadway Bares’ created by Jerry Mitchell.
In 2010 Rory moved across the Atlantic to Ireland and performed around the country and as a dancer in the hit TV show “Penny Dreadful.”
He created Hues Productions in 2014 to create top of the line workshops for students in Ireland but also to bring more theatre and dance to the mainstream using as many Irish performers as possible. Since then he has brought over Broadway Stars Nikki Snelson, Ben Cameron, Laura Bell Bundy, Rachelle Rak & Chryssie Whitehead.
He is excited to have created BOOM in 2020 to connect the world of theatre around the world and into your own living rooms!
JADE MCHUGH STORM
CHOREOGRAPHER
Jade is a member of pro crew with Kerry Milne for Fly Dance Company. She is a 7 time All Ireland champion for Ballroom and Latin American.She completed grades 1 to 8 and intermediate grades with Royal Ballet.
Stage Performances include The 2 Johnnies at the 3 Arena, Electric Picnic and Cork Marquee. Gaiety Panto Dancer, Guinness Storehouse Dancer, Bingo Loco, Keatings shows- The Lion King and The Hunchback of Notre Dame. American Football- Dancer for their arrival.
TV Performances include The Big Deal (Virgin Media) ft Boy George, Bord Gais Ad, Chef Ad, Callan's Kicks (RTE).
NIAMH MCALISTER
DRAMA TEACHER
Niamh can currently be seen in The Hen Do, a GBL production that is touring NI and The Grand Opera House, Belfast.
She trained on the Lir's BA Acting course. She is a member of the all-female comedy improv troupe ‘Broad Strokes’ who regularly perform in Dublin. Niamh wrote and directed her first comedy short film 'Dead on Arrival' which will be due for festival release in 2023.
Stage performances include Juliet in "Romeo And Juliet"(The Mill Theatre), Anna in "New Fish" (Smock Alley Theatre), Cathy in "The Last Five Years, Gussie in "Merrily We Roll Along", Frau Binder/The Soprano in "Dalliance", Grusha in "The Caucasian Chalk Circle" Archidaemus/Gaoler/Time in "The Winter's Tale"(The Lir Academy)
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MEAGAN HOARE
CHOREOGRAPHER
Hailing from Cape Town, South Africa, Meagan is a multi-faceted performer, teacher, adjudicator and choreographer. Since graduating from the Northern Ballet School in the U.K on full scholarship, Meagan has consistently worked in various areas of the Industry around the world including cruise ships, theatre, cabaret, commercials, panto and even circus!
As a teacher, Meagan strives to create a safe atmosphere while encouraging her students to recognise their individuality, opening them up to their full potential. Meagan furthered her training in New York at the prestigious Broadway Dance Centre under the tutelage of Broadway’s Elite.
KAREN GUNN
LAMDA TEACHER
ROSS O CONNOR
MUSICAL DIRECTOR
Theatre
Ross O' Connor is a well known Musical Director/Composer. Husband of Elaine (Above). Together they wrote all the songs/music for the RTE Panto "Once Upon a Time at Christmas". They both set up Singable productions and created their own children's tv series. They currently work for Folens Educational company on their Junior Syllabus.
Ross is a film composer and is currently scoring a Hallmark movie.
Theatre Credits:
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Friends The Musical- Jendagi/Robert C Kelly Productions- UK and Ireland tour
Musical Director/Arranger/Music Production 2020
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Menopause The Musical 2 - Jendagi/Robert C Kelly Productions- UK and Ireland tour
Musical Director/Arranger/Music Production 2020
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New Fish (A Musical) Smock Alley
Composer/Arranger/Co-Creator/Musical Director 2019
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Cheerios Pantomime -Anthem Productions
Musical Director/Arranger/Music Production 2003-2020
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UCH Pantomime- Jendagi/Robert C Kelly Productions
Musical Director/Arranger/Music Production 2014-2020
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Danny And The Deep Blue Sea- Courtney Jessica Larkin-London
Composer/Sound Designer- 2017
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Irelands First Touring Panto- Jendagi/Robert C Kelly Productions
Musical Director/Arranger/Music Production 2015-2020
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Menopause The Musical -Jendagi/Robert C Kelly Productions
Musical Director/Arranger/Music Production 2013-2019
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Rod Stewart PBS special- Arranger/Copyist 2012
Karen has been with Showstoppers Stageschool since a very young age. She has LAMDA qualifications for both Musical Theatre and Solo Acting, earning distinctions in all of her exams.
Karen has just graduated from college studying film and creative media at Dublin Business School.
She has been heavily involved in the school for years and has played leads in most shows she's done throughout her training such as "Legally Blonde" "Annie" and "Hairspray". She also performed in the Firhouse Community Center Panto last year as Robyn Hood in "Red Riding Hood"
