WELCOME TO LAR WELWYN

At LAR Welwyn we are all about building confidence and learning key performance skills!

TERM 1
SEPTEMBER-DECEMBER

We work towards our Christmas Show and perform at local Christmas Festivals. We begin looking at LAMDA pieces for those who wish to take an exam with us.

TERM 2
JANUARY-APRIL

We work towards LAMDA Exams (taking the exam is optional). We compete and perform at Chesham Arts Festival at The Elgiva Theatre, Milton Keynes Festival of the Arts and Watford Speech & Drama Festival. 

TERM 3
MAY-JULY

We work towards our Summer Show and perform at various Summer Carnivals.

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Please email Louisa at larperformingarts@gmail.com to register interest in 1-2-1 lessons or book via the booking links above. 

HOLIDAY WORKSHOPS

  • Digswell Village Church Hall

    25th and 26th July

    10am - 4pm

    Ages 4 to 18

    Individual or multiple day bookings available. £37 per day.

    Sessions will include Drama, Singing, Street Dance and Musical Theatre

    50% SIBLING DISCOUNTS

    Please book the first child at full price and then use the discount code SIBLINGS for any further bookings. Please complete a separate booking per child so that we have all the medical / emergency contact information we need. Thank you

  • 'Pirates and Pearls' - we'll be singing, dancing and acting as we create a show for family and friends.

    Venue: Digswell Church Hall

    20th - 23rd August, 10am - 4pm each day

    Ages 6 to 18

    50% SIBLING DISCOUNTS

    Please book the first child at full price and then use the discount code SIBLINGS for any further bookings. Please complete a separate booking per child so that we have all the medical / emergency contact information we need. Thank you

  • Please visit our Uniform shop here

    All children need a LAR T-shirt with leggings or jazz pants and jazz shoes (dance trainers for Street Dance).

  • Please use the discount code SIBLING-2 for two children (10% discount) or SIBLING-3 for three or more children (15% discount).

  • Payment for classes is termly, half-termly or pay-as-you-go (spaces permitting). There is a discount for booking the full term in advance.

VENUES

  • Digswell Village Hall, 30 Harmer Green Lane, Welwyn, AL6 0AT

VENUES

  • Digswell Village Hall, 30 Harmer Green Lane, Welwyn, AL6 0AT

CLASS INFORMATION

  • Drama, singing and dance with Helayna, Julius and Louisa. These classes offer the opportunity to take LAMDA Exams (these count towards UCAS points). We explore jazz dance, pop songs, musical theatre, scripts, improvisation, poetry, monologues and more.

    Mini Performing Arts for ages 4 to 7 is split into two classes - Musical Theatre / Street Dance with Helayna and Drama with Julius. Students can attend just one session, or both.

  • Learn the foundations of Street including locking, popping and hip hop with Helayna.

  • A great alternative to 1-1 singing lessons. We will focus on harmonies, building confidence and solo singing. We will compete at Chesham Music Festival, and students can take individual Trinity Rock & Pop Exams. ​

  • An auditioned Musical Theatre class focussing on solo singing, audition technique and performance skills. We also compete at Chesham Music Festival in February.​

    The next auditions for Elite will be held on Friday 15th September. We ask children to perform a verse & chorus of a song and a poem or monologue. Everyone is welcome to audition. Please email larperformingarts@gmail.com.

MEET THE TEAM

LOUISA ALICE-ROSE

FOUNDER & PRINCIPAL

  • Louisa Alice-Rose is a highly versatile soprano and actress. She is also the founder of LAR Performing Arts and the LAR Talent Agency.

    Louisa studied at Sylvia Young Theatre School, Tring Park School for the Performing Arts, Glyndebourne Youth Opera and the Royal Northern College of Music, graduating with First Class Honours in Vocal Studies and Opera.

    Louisa has been performing on the professional stage since her West End debut at aged 8 in Les Miserables. At aged 9, Louisa played the role of Tilly in the World Première performance of The Bear by Howard Blake at The Barbican Centre and Birmingham Symphony Hall.

    At aged 17, Louisa was runner-up in both the Next BRIT Thing competition (sponsored by Classic FM) and the Rotary Club of Great Britain and Ireland Young Musician of the Year. Louisa was nominated for a Classic BRIT Award in 2018. In 2019 Louisa was one of the final 6 singers at the Llangollen Eisteddfod Pendine International Voice of the Future.

    In 2020 and 2021 Louisa was top of the iTunes Classical Charts with ‘The Cold Of Winter’ and ‘You Are Not Alone’ composed by Lyndon Samuel.

    Louisa’s stage roles for 2022-23 include Phyllis (Iolanthe) for White Knight, Zerlina (Don Giovanni) and Fanny Dashwood (Sense and Sensibility UK Premiere) with Surrey Opera, Yum Yum (The Mikado) for Opera South East, Constance (The Sorcerer), Kate (The Pirates of Penzance) and Leila (Iolanthe) for Grim’s Dyke Opera, Phoebe (The Yeomen Of The Guard) for Kentish Opera.

    Other career highlights include solo recitals at Hampton Court Palace, Windsor Castle, The Royal Albert Hall, Cardiff Millennium Centre and Bournemouth International Centre.

JULIUS WILLS

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

  • Julius Wills is an actor, writer and director. He trained first with the Year Out Drama Company, based in Stratford-Upon-Avon and then continued his studies with the Fourth Monkey Actor Training Company. Julius is the Artistic Director for Tell No Tales Theatre Company and LAR Performing Arts. He is also a peripatetic LAMDA Teacher at St Paul’s School.

    Julius’ Shakepeare roles include Edmund (King Lear), Benedick (Much Ado About Nothing), Antonio (The Merchant of Venice), Rodrigo (Othello) and Bertram (All’s Well That Ends Well) with Bowler Crab Productions and Duke Senior / Oliver / Duke Frederick (As You Like It) with The Menagerie of the Lost and Found.

    Other theatre credits include The Gentleman /Robert Suydam (The Atrocities at Arkham) with Tell No Tales, Lollio (The Changeling) with Ovo Theatre, Smirnov (The Bear, Chekov) and The Conductor (Train Journey) with Broken Word Productions, Tiresias (Antigone) with SE Theatre Company, Goblin Ringleader (Goblin Market) and Probeus (Medusa) with Fourth Monkey at the Edinburgh and Camden Fringe Festivals.

    Julius’ pantomime credits include Button (Cinderella) with Chaplins Entertainment and operatic credits include Raoul St Brioche (The Merry Widow) and Scynthius (Less Miserable) with Aquarian Opera.

    For Tell No Tales Theatre Company, Julius wrote and directed ‘The Atrocities at Arkham’ and ‘The Lurking Fear’ as part of the London Lovecraft Festival. He also wrote and directed two audio dramas, ‘Echo’ and ‘The Hotel, the Basement and the Laboratory.’ For Broken Word Productions, Julius directed ‘The Proposal’ (Chekov) and he wrote and directed ‘Train Journey.’

HELAYNA LIVIERO

STREET DANCE/MUSICAL THEATRE/LAR ELITE

  • Helayna is a graduate of Performers College, where she received a Level 6 Diploma in Dance Theatre in 2017. A qualified Street Dance teacher, Helayna gained her Level 4 Diploma with Distinction back in 2012 under Urban Strides, after training and performing with them for 7 years.

    Helayna thoroughly enjoys teaching children of all ages, having choreographed and taught in a variety of schools in the Buckinghamshire area, including teaching the Junior School at Performers College whilst she was still in training. Her background is heavily commercial based and has had training in all female company ‘Sirens’ and Locking company ‘FunkOfTheFuture.’

    Teaching the foundations of Street Dance, including Locking, Popping and Hip Hop, Helayna is passionate about giving children the confidence and ability to believe they can succeed - all whilst having fun!

    Credits include:

    John Newman Live TV Performance/ Dubai Expo, Living The Dream/ Global Village Dubai/ Beauty and the Beast Pantomime, UK Productions/ Peter Pan Pantomime, UK Productions/ 10th Anniversary Japan Matsuri as a Dancer & Catwalk Model/ Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Pantomime, UK Productions/ Aladdin Pantomime, Paul Holman Associates, as Ms Bassett & Dancer/ 2016 AQA GCSE Contemporary choreography demonstration video/ NFL Opening Ceremony, Mass Movement/ Young Voices Arena Tour, Urban Strides

    Helayna teaches Musical Theatre, Street Dance and LAR Elite for LAR Tring and LAR Welwyn.

All of our Teachers have Enhanced DBS Checks and First Aid Training. At LAR, we are all about building confidence. Our class sizes are kept small, so that all children receive individual tuition and feedback from our teachers. 

LAR Performing Arts was founded in January 2018 by Louisa Alice-Rose. LAR has since grown to encompass 3 locations around the country, each with individual timetables tailored to the children in each area. Julius and / or Louisa (husband and wife team) teach at every location and know each student personally. 

The success of LAR Performing Arts led to the founding of LAR Talent Agency in 2020, representing both adults and children for professional work in theatre, musical theatre, television and film.

CHESHAM

RESULTS 2024

  • 🥇 LAR Elite / Musical Theatre - Class Winners with Honours

    🥈 LAR Senior Singing - Second Place with Honours

    ⭐ LAR Pop Choir - Distinction

    ⭐ LAR Welwyn - Distinction

    ⭐ LAR Junior & Senior Performing Arts - Distinction

  • 🥇 Laura Hardy - Class Winner with Honours

    ⭐ Charlotte Finch - Distinction

  • 🥇 Laura Hardy - Class Winner with Honours

  • 🥇 Sophia Alves & Natalia Luberda - Joint Class Winners with Distinction

  • 🥇 Tenzin Noryang - Class Winner with Distinction

    ⭐ Annabelle Winston - Distinction

    ⭐ Betsy Langston - Distinction

    ⭐ Tenzin Pema - Commended

  • 🥉 Henry Mason - Third Place with Distinction

    ⭐ Iris Hodgetts - Commended

  • ⭐ Henry Mason - Commended

  • ⭐ Betsy Langson - Commended

2023 EXAMS, FESTIVALS

& COMPETITIONS

  • 88 students took individual Acting, Musical Theatre or Verse & Prose exams with us, we maintained our 100% pass rate and we received 64 Distinctions with lots of lovely feedback from our five LAMDA examiners! Special congratulations to Olivia Palmer-Walker, Charlotte Sellars, Isabella West and Rochana Jha who achieved their LAMDA Bronze Medals (GCSE Equivalent) and to Millie Gathard, Ella Kumar, Annabelle Winston and Violet Swatman who all achieved more than 90%.

  • 100% success rate for Trinity Classical Singing and Rock & Pop Singing Exams

  • Success includes roles in the following musicals in the West End / UK Tour: Les Miserables, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat, Beauty and the Beast, The Osmonds, The King And I, Matilda Netflix Film, The Phantom of the Opera

  • The vocal classes were held at The Elgiva Theatre in Chesham. Congratulations to all of our students for wonderful singing!

    •Popular Song Ages 13 to 18

    TROPHY WINNER Laura Hardy (age 14) with HONOURS

    •Ensemble ages 14 & under

    JOINT WINNERS LAR Tring Pop Choir & LAR Welwyn Elite with DISTINCTION

    •Show Songs, 10 years & under

    SECOND PLACE Annabelle Winston with HONOURS

    Wilf Dudley - DISTINCTION

    Violet Swatman - DISTINCTION

    Sarah-Lea Shapton - DISTINCTION

    •Show Songs age 12 & under

    Leia Swatman - DISTINCTION

    Natalia Luberda - DISTINCTION

    •Show Songs ages 14 & under

    Laura Hardy - DISTINCTION

    •Popular Song Ages 12 & under

    Natalia Luberda - DISTINCTION

    Huge congratulations to our students Phoebe, Matilda and Sarah-Lea for wonderful performances at Chesham Drama Festival!

    Matilda Samuels was awarded the Woodstock Cup and has been invited to perform at the Final Concert.

    • Poetry for School Years 5 & 6

    WINNER Matilda Samuels (year 6) with HONOURS

    Sarah-Lea Shapton & Phoebe Castleton COMMENDED

    • Monologue for School Years 5 & 6

    3rd Place Sarah-Lea Shapton (year 5) with DISTINCTION

  • SONGS FROM THE SHOWS

    * School Years 9 to 11

    SECOND PLACE - Laura Hardy with Distinction

    Morgan Slade - Special Merit

    * School Years 7 & 8

    SECOND PLACE - Alinah Dagpin with Distinction

    Natalia Luberda - Special Merit

    * Open

    SECOND PLACE - Maisie Berry with Distinction

    Sophia Alves - Special Merit

    * School Years 3 & 4

    Annabelle Winston - Special Merit

    SOLO ACTING

    * School Years 5 & 6

    Sarah-Lea Shapton - Special Merit

    * School Years 7 to 9

    Charlotte Winston - Special Merit

    Natalia Luberda - Special Merit