Senior Musical Theatre COMPANY
Our Senior Musical Theatre Company is open to ITW students in 3rd through 6th year. Book your place today to be sure of your role in this years Musical - watch this space for this years production!
Our elite performance company for 3rd - 6th year students
Rehearsals every Sunday 4pm - 6pm at ITW Clonskeagh
Join Our Elite Senior Musical Theatre Program for the 2025/26 season.
Our Senior Musical Theatre Company is where our most dedicated students put their ITW Dance and Drama training to the ultimate test: rehearsing and performing a full scale musical.
For the 2025/26 season, we are thrilled to announce that we’ll be performing the Pulitzer Award winning musical A Chorus Line.
In arrangement with Concord Theatricals, A Chorus Line’s story of a group of dedicated performers intensive audition process for the ensemble of a new broadway show, will be performed in our studio space in March 2026. With our second show, an original musical review and competition, set to be performed in May 2026.
We’re excited to use this opportunity to push our students to hone their performance skills, to work together as a company, and most importantly to put on a fantastic show. We hope to see you in rehearsals!
Our SMT Company Team
Joshua Brown - Director
Jordan Brown - Choreographer
Andrew Dawson - Musical Director
Class Requirements
Membership of weekly Dance and Creative Drama classes in ITW is essential for all students who wish to take Musical Theatre.
SMT requires a high level of commitment.
Additional rehearsals may be called as we approach the show date.
Students in the Senior Musical Theatre Company are expected to research their shows, characters, and composers, and to treat the rehearsal process professionally.
- ITW Members €220 per term -
Make sure you select Senior Musical Theatre when booking in for September
ITW Shakespeare Company
Our ITW Shakespeare Company have been awarded Gold School Status having taken part in The Shakespeare School Festivals for over 10 years. We have performed A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Macbeth, Twelfth Night and Romeo & Juliet in recent years and we are delighted to have been selected again to participate in the Schools Shakespeare Festival 2023 - this time invited to perform in London.
ITW Shakespeare Company
“Strong, energetic and dynamic – an accomplished and original production” –Schools Shakespeare Festival on our Romeo & Juliet - read the full appraisal report HERE
Our ITW Shakespeare Company have performed The Winters Tale, The Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo & Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing and The Comedy of Errors in recent years and a non traditional production of A Midsummer Nights Dream via ZOOM in 2020. We also brought our Company to Shakespeare's Globe in London to see Much Ado About Nothing and The Comedy of Errors live on stage and to perform Merchant of Venice in Birmingham Old Rep with 2 days in Stratford doing workshops with the RSC and visiting Shakespeares Birthplace and School!
Our past cast members have also won awards for Shakespeare in many competitions including the SDToI Festival and Feis Maitiu. Our Grads have gone on to train professionally at top colleges including The LIR and RADA, and to perform professionally in Theatre, Film and Television too!
“This was a meaningful and sensitive Merchant of Venice from a mature, committed company!” – Schools Shakespeare Festival November 2022
"We are Such Stuff as Dreams are Made on........"
Students love the language of Shakespeare
Musicality, movement and imagination skills are developed
Teamwork is key - every child is fully involved
Junior Cert Shakespeare is demystified
A deep appreciation for Shakespeare is fostered
Strong friendships are forged through common experience
Our Shakespeare Company starts with a workshop on the 31st of August and continues then up until our performances on November 9th.
We will work together every week starting at the very beginning, de-mystifying Shakespeare up on our feet learning the nuts and bolts of Shakespeare’s work and language and culminating in performances live on stage in front of an audience of friends and family!
Our recent production of Twelfth Night in ITW Studios Clonskeagh - November 2019
We are so proud of our Shakespeare Company 2020/21 who performed A Midsummer Nights Dream on ZOOM - rehearsed in the main outside and on ZOOM during September, October and November and recorded on ZOOM in November.
A high level of commitment is required and the rewards are huge!
Intensive rehearsals every Sunday from 12 to 2pm September to November.
A performance at The Sean O’Casey Theatre as part of our ITW Shakespeare Festival in mid November
A Day trip to London on October 21st to see a performance of The Twelfth Night in The Globe Theatre, Southbank
An acting workshop with an Actor from The Globe
A Tour of The Globe Theatre London
The cost is €210 to participate in the home performance (Sept-Nov inc all workshops and rehearsals ) plus costs if you want to do the UK part too; flights, Tickets, Workshops etc approx €150 -will get best deals possible).
We encourage the parents to get on board to organise some fundraising activities (karaoke night/sponsored dramathon) to help pay for the costs in London and transport, costumes, props and so on. This is a collaborative project that everyone is expected to get involved with and support.
ITW Shakespeare Company is for ITW Members only. (You must be taking 2 or more classes per week including a Drama class)
