TV3’s award winning crime documentary ‘24 hours to Kill’ are currently looking to fill a wide variety of extra roles.The following are needed:

Alonze Productions are producing an advertisement for the book ‘Children of the Fae’. This a fantasy novel with 4 children roles and 4 adult roles.The characters include:

Summer Camp

Lucan's Westside Stage School renowned Summer Camps are CURRENTLY registering!
See our SUMMER CAMP PAGE for all details on dates, price and age groups and online booking

Come and enjoy a night of Folk, Pop and Celtic music with International singer/songwriter Liz Madden and special guests. This is an event not to be missed and will be Liz's only performance in Ireland for 2013!

“If anything sets Liz Madden apart from other Celtic/Folk singers, it’s her authentic and amazing voice.  Never before has so much passion, energy and emotion poured out of a singer in every song. What the album offers is a tapestry of her musical talents, woven with rich Irish musical tradition, heritage, and her incredible music and lyrics.

“Vikings - Season 2”, are now announcing our OPEN CASTING DATES & VENUES for EXTRAS, as filming will recommence in just over 4x weeks. 

Filming will mostly take place in the Wicklow & Dublin areas. It is a hugely popular TV Series, tracing the footsteps Ragnar Lothbrok, & the Vikings 1st naval invasions into Europe 


“VIKINGS” - epic TV series, so successful, will begin filming a 2nd Season based out of Ireland’s Ashford Studios at the end of June, and are now casting for 1000’s of Film EXTRAS to take part.

Tomas O'Dulaing speaking about Westside Stage School

THURSDAY MAY 16th

GRIFFEEN VALLEY SCHOOL
EVERYONE WELCOME
4.10PM - 5PM AGE 4 -7 €6
5PM - 6PM AGE 8+ €7
www.swaggacrew.com

All fees taking on the day will be matched(doubled) by Westside and go towards the cost of this visit.

WestSide Director Elizabeth Ennis & WestSide Drama Teacher Eimear Morrissey will visit India in September. 
This week long visit to Calcutta promises participants the experience of a life time as they will get the unique opportunity to bring the benefits of performing arts to the children in HOPE’s Protection Homes.

Our Summer Camp gives young people aged 4-16 the opportunity to work with top industry professionals developing skills including Acting, Singing & Dance culminating in a staged showcase for parents to attend. This year our Summer Camp is a two week course and as usual it is open to everyone aged between 4 and 16 years. Our Summer Camp will be held in Griffeen Valley Educate Together National School with classes and our staged production on the final day of the two week course in The Wilson and Wright Theatre in The King's Hospital School, Palmerstown, Dublin 20 where parents are invited to attend.

Join us for an action packed Summer School run by Lucan’s WestSide Stage School, Ireland’s most professional Performing Arts School for young people. Our Summer School’s offer young people aged 4-16 the opportunity to work with top industry professionals developing skills including Acting, Singing & Dance culminating in a staged showcase for parents to attend.   

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Join us for an action packed Summer School run by Lucan’s WestSide Stage School, Ireland’s most professional Performing Arts School for young people. Our Summer School’s offer young people aged 4-16 the opportunity to work with top industry professionals developing skills including Acting, Singing & Dance culminating in a staged showcase for parents to attend.     

This year our Summer Camp is a two week course and as usual it is open to everyone aged between 4 and 16 years.

Irish romantic comedy ‘Love, Rosie’ – based on Cecelia Ahern’s 2004 novel ‘Where Rainbows End’ – will start shooting in Dublin from May to July, with extras wanted aged 17-25 years and older.Directed by Christian Ditter, the film will star Lily Collins and Sam Cleflin in the main roles of two Irish best friends Rosie and Alex, whose plans to go to college together in the US get complicated by Rosie's unexpected pregnancy.Although Alex is not the child’s father, the pair stay in touch over the next 12 years by letters and emails as their lives change and destinies unfold.

Wishing all the Westside Students the 

very Best of Luck recording for Tyrone 

Productions Music Inc. Enjoy the 

experience and we look forward to 

seeing the finished product on TV.

Since joining the cast of Love/Hate for series one, Westside Student Dylan continues to play Nidge’s son Warren and is now busy shooting series 4

Filming began earlier this month in the greater Dublin area, with all crew from the previous three seasons also making a welcome return to the set.Fresh from their IFTA Awards sweep at the beginning of February, director David Caffrey, writer Stuart Carolan, series producers Suzanne McAuley and Steve Matthews, and cast Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Killian Scott, Peter Coonan, Aoibhinn McGinnity, Charlie Murphy and Laurence Kinlan, are all currently filming scenes in various locations around the city.

Taking a break from filming, Westside Student Sophie O'Brien who is playing the part of young Mary Queen of Scots in the new series REIGN with Anna Popplewell (Lola in Narnia) 

Currently shooting at Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin, ‘Reign’ charts the rise to power of Mary Queen of Scots in the 16th century when she arrives in France as a 15-year-old and is betrothed to Prince Francis against a backdrop of ‘sexual intrigue’.The TV movie is a US/Irish co-production between CBS Studios, World 2000 Entertainment and Octagon Films and is to be distributed by the CW Network.Directed by directed by Brad Silberling, the project is described as a ‘fantastical reimagining of the teenage Mary Queen of Scots’ and pitched as ‘Game of Thrones’ meets Sofia Coppola’s ‘Marie Antoinette’, according to industry reports.Australian actress Adelaide Kane played Lolly on Neighbours and will next be seen in horror film ‘The Devil's Rapture’ and ‘After the Fall’ starring David Duchovny.The young cast of ‘Reign’ includes Anna Popplewell (The Chronicles of Narnia); Caitlin Stasey (Tomorrow, When the War Began); Megan Follows (I am Number Four); and Toby Regbo (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1).As an historical figure, Mary Queen of Scots is also the subject of a big screen adaptation currently in development with Working Title Films for release in 2014 with Saoirse Ronan set to star and Michael Hirst (The Tudors, Elizabeth) writing the screenplay. 

No Registration Required

We don’t follow the Eurovision that much and we don’t believe in telephone votes as it turns into a popularity vote, however we do believe in this young talented artist and we believe if this is the way he can get his foot on the ladder then we will support him 100%. Have a listen and if you agree with us, then please vote for a truly creative songwriter and close Family Friend Robert Grace “CRASHING DOWN” sung by Aimee Fitzpatrick on The Late Late Show on Friday February 22th.

Starting off 2013, we see Westend Performer 

Eddy Cox rejoining the faculty at WSS, 

we are delighted to have Eddy back with us!

HIP HOP CLASSES RESUME JANUARY 17th 

with Donking Rongavilla

U2 drummer Larry Mullen Jr and Irish actress Maria Doyle Kennedy (Downtown Abbey) have joined the cast of Erik Poppe’s ‘A Thousand Times Good Night’, which began shooting in Dublin last week.They join a previously announced cast that includes French actress Juliette Binoche and Danish ‘Game of Thrones’ actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. Young Irish actress Lauryn Canny has also been cast as Binoche’s daughter Steph.The role is the second acting job for U2 drummer Mullen, whose first film role was in Irish director Mary McGuckian’s ‘Man on the Train’ with Donald Sutherland in 2011.‘A Thousand Times Good Night’ is inspired by Poppe’s own experiences as a war photographer. It tells the story of a photographer, Rebekka, who is torn between the job and the family she loves.Binoche and Coster-Waldau play the photographer and her husband, while Mullen Jr and Kennedy play their best friends in the drama, which will move to Morrocco following a five-week shoot in Dublin.‘A Thousand Times Goodnight’ has been written by Harald Rosenløw Eeg and is a co-production between Ireland’s Newgrange Pictures, Paradox in Norway and Zentropa International Sweden.Jackie Larkin and Lesley McKimm will produce for Newgrange alongside Norwegian-based Finn Gjerdrum and Stein Kave for Paradox.The feature’s budget is reportedly around €5m with the project having been offered €300,000 from the Irish Film Board in the last round of funding. The Norwegian Film Institute is also supporting the feature. 

Friday, 23 November 2012  

 Children from Westside Stage School Donate Christmas Song to Chernobyl Children International ‘Give Joy’ Campaign. Liz Madden, well-known Irish singer, along with children from the Westside Stage School in Dublin have donated a Christmas Song in aid of Adi Roche’s Chernobyl Children International (CCI) ‘Give Joy’ Gift Campaign.   

 This year, the charity’s Gift Campaign has some unique and inspirational gifts to choose from, all of which will help thousands more children and families receive medical and nursing care, life-saving child cardiac surgeries, community and hospice care and de-institutionalisation programmes for children and young adults throughout the Chernobyl regions.

Diana Bunici presenter of Elev8 on RTE 2, past Student of WestSide Stage School back at WestSide Stage School to make a behind the scene documentary on Finding Wonderland and present The Student Of The Year Awards. 

Congratulations to all our Students who made Finding Wonderland a huge success, you should all be very proud. Your hard work paid off, a truly talented & dedicated Cast, here at WestSide. 
Also BIG Thank You to our amazing WestSide Production Team & WestSide Backstage Crew

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As we head to The Helix, we send best wishes to WestSide Student Lauryn Canny who has just been cast to play the daughter of Actress Juliette Binoche in ‘A Thousand Times Goodnight’, which is currently shooting in Dublin before moving on to Morocco. Norwegian director Erik Poppe is directing from a script by Harald Rosenløw Eeg, which is inspired by Poppe’s own experiences as a war photographer. Coster-Waldau recently starred in Morten Tyldum's acclaimed crime thriller ‘Headhunters’. No details as to his character in ‘A Thousand Times Goodnight’ have been made available as of yet. ‘A Thousand Times Goodnight’ is a co-production between Ireland’s Newgrange Pictures, Paradox in Norway and Zentropa International Sweden. Jackie Larkin and Lesley McKimm will produce for Newgrange alongside Norwegian-based Finn Gjerdrum and Stein Kave for Paradox. The feature’s budget is reportedly around €5m with the project having been offered €300,000 from the Irish Film Board in the last round of funding. The Norwegian Film Institute is also supporting the feature.

The Bank Holiday Weekend will see Lucan’s WestSide Stage School’s ambitious production ofFinding Wonderland, a three-night showcase for the students of the Lucan-based school to parade their teachings and delight a crowd of friends and family.Finding Wonderlandincorporates classic and contemporary dance, disco, soul, hip-hop and pop music, as well as acting into an ambitious two-and-a-half hour set. Split into two acts, the show’s first half is an all singing, all dancing affair, featuring performances from each of the school’s age groups.

The Rubiez from WestSide Stage School Performance on The Late Late Toy Show 2011 with Ryan Turbidy http://www.

A take on the classic Alice in Wonderland story, FINDING WONDERLAND tells the story of a modern-day woman who goes on a life-changing adventure below the streets of New York City, where a colorful cast of strange but familiar characters help her rediscover what's really important. And asks the question if you miss a fleeting moment in time, can you ever get it back?

Hip Hop with LOS ANGELES Guest Tutors

Thursday September 27th see www.swaggacrew.com for class schedule

MARC Cleary

Oskar Rodriguez 

CLASS SCHEDULE @ www.swaggacrew.com

Mercury Digital id delighted to be working with Champion Sports again. We will be producing an advert that captures the football frenzy that will grip this country when Euro 2012 hits. We’re looking for an actor that can embody a special kind of football fan who lives and breathes the game. If you think the character bio is you. We’d love to hear from you. 

Audition details are below.
[Main Character] [GENDER: MALE] [AGE: 25-30]
Our main character is a guy in his mid to late twenties. He’s not the coolest, he’s not the trendiest but he is most definitely a great guy.

From The Clancy Brothers to Crystal Swing, the Irish family has entertained us throughout the decades. Talented Irish families have excelled in their particular genres, whether it's the pop music of The Corrs or the sean-nós dancing of The Cunninghams.

FEIS & BLOOD, will set out to find a new super-star family. The production company Adare Productions are currently accepting entries,please click here to enter your family.

‘On The Ball’ are looking to cast two males for a role in their football comedy. Football skill isn’t essential but is a plus. The age range is 18-25 and height of between 5’6″-5’9″.

As they are in the production process casting will be done quickly and auditions will be done through a video audition.

The film is being shot in the north side of Dublin.

Applicants can contact ‘On the Ball’ directly by email: ontheballmovie@gmail.com

I’m writing to you from an Irish production company called Tilted Pictures and we’re producing an Irish Film Board short film calledDoghouse.

 

It’s the comic story of a day in the life of a hapless Dad who needs to grow up and his smart child who might be able to help with that, written and to be directed by Morgan Bushe (IFTA nominated Best Short, Silver Star Galway Film Fleadh, winner Best Short Celtic Film and Televsion AwardsIf I Should Fall Behind,Best of Fest Cork Film FestivalMr. Crocodile in the Cupboard

The age range is 17 and 22- both male and female.

We are looking for a multi cultural cross section of people.

Auditions will take place throughout the month of February.

They will be making demo’s once candidates are selected and intend to go into production in the summer of 2012. Therefore anyone wanting to put themselves forward should be able to make a commitment for quite a lengthy period of time as this project will be ongoing.