Houghton Student stars in SABC series!

Houghton student Okwethu (12 years old) has been attending the Helen O'Grady drama Academy for just over a year. The drama programme has certainly helped her in securing a featured role in the new Soul City 10 series which has just started filming. We can't tell you her role as its still a secret but watch out for this space. She is very excited and she will be busy shooting over the next two months. We are all very proud of her.

Today,Okwethu was at her drama class at St John's College,Houghton.The photos show Okwethu with her drama group warming up their voices during speech exercises. The movement section involved them learning about even and uneven rythm. They also had fun in their improvisation where they had to show off their rapping skills !

Spuds Away!

Every one must have heard about the hype and buzz around the Spud movie which is being filmed later this year. A special mention must be made to 4 of our students who were short listed from hundreds auditioned across the country but unfortunately didn't quite make it.

Chiara

for the role of Mermaid

Nathan and Antonis

for the role of Vern

Matthew for the role of Gecko

Well done to you all! The Helen O'Grady Drama Academy programme has certainly helped to train our students well. In the last two years since we have started our own casting agency : Take Ten Casting, over 300 of the students attending the Johannesburg East branch have featured in TV ads, Billboards , Tv Series and international films.

Watch out for Tshepo taking over the role of Vusi in your local soapi Muhvango due to air later this year.

Giant spiders scare away Explorers!

Students in our Sandton class (5-8yrs) getting into character where half the class were dressed as explorers and the other half giant spiders for this weeks improvisation "Spider Island ".This part of the lesson teaches the children about basic performance skills and helps to improve their self confidence and encourages social interaction. And of course they are having fun in the process!

Sunninghill Lower Primary go prehistoric!

Our lower primary class(5-8yr olds) in Sunninghill having great fun performing a mime to music called "No Meat". The children were putting together the movement skills they aquired in the previous two weeks where they learnt about space awareness, levels and direction. They dressed up as cavemen and moving in time to music acted out the story of hunters searching for food ,culminating with a huge feast enjoyed by the whole village.