NEWS  Congratulations go to Tom Orme who has just been cast in the lead in a new short film My Friend Malcolm.

TWO WEST END SUCCESSES!!!
Congratulations go to two of our students who have been offered West End roles, Indeera Shankla who is currently playing the role of Nala in The West End production of The Lion King and Tristan Semon-Ward who has won the role of Gavroche in The West End production of Les Miserables. Tristan Semon-Ward, aged eight, will fill the well-worn shoes of Gavroche, the heroic street urchin, in the Queen’s Theatre’s production of Les Miserables. Tristan, said The Biz was to thank for much of his success. He said: “I just like acting so much. I don’t know how I got started but I like The Biz because I really enjoy acting and singing and dancing. They are all of my hobbies.”

Meanwhile fellow leading light of The Biz Theatre School Indeera Shankla, 12, is playing the young cub Nala in a production of The Lion King at the Lyceum Theatre. “I was really excited when I heard I was in The Lion King. It was a great opportunity for me to be in another West End musical — two years ago I was in The Far Pavilions at the Shaftesbury Theatre.”
 

A very successful year for The Biz Theatre School has been rounded off with a stream of the school’s students being featured on TV. We are approached on a regular basis to put forward students for both live and recorded features on the BBC and commercial television. Earlier this year, two pupils were chosen to appear in the new series of Vroom Vroom.

Another call to the school’s appointed agent resulted in two students being selected to appear in a new TV advert for the RSPCA. Recently, 5 more Biz students appeared live on CBBC Xchange in a challenging feature where they had to learn classical singing with Opera singer Katherine Jenkins and beat-box with Jay Sean and perform live at the end of the programme. Needless to say the students rose to the challenge and we had a great day at the BBC. Other students also appeared on BBC’s Xchange programme and The Mysti Show.
 

The Biz Theatre School once again appeared at Her Majesty’s Theatre in the West End in December having been asked to take a starring role in the Childrens Variety Performance.