The Moore School of Performing Arts was founded in 1997 by sisters, Michelle & Susie Moore.
With a team of professional teachers supporting them, they teach a variety of Dance & Drama Classes in
The Little Theatre, Community Centre & Scouts Hall Skerries to children (3-21 years).
MSPA attract students from Skerries, Rush, Lusk, Balbriggan, Swords, Donabate, Naul, Stamullen, Gormanston, Malahide and Ballyboughal. MSPA classes include Musical Theatre, Hip Hop, Contemporary, Tap, Creative Drama, Drama Exam and Singing (Solo, Duo & Group). MSPA will continue with their classes that they introduced last September, a Strength, Stretch & Technique class and an Adult Class (30+ yrs), both classes will be taught by Leah.
At MSPA, we feel every child has a hidden talent within them and we will do our best to nurture that talent through different disciplines within our school. All our classes are based around our mission statement,
“To have fun within a friendly atmosphere”.
With a team of professional teachers supporting them, they teach a variety of Dance & Drama Classes in
The Little Theatre, Community Centre & Scouts Hall Skerries to children (3-21 years).
MSPA attract students from Skerries, Rush, Lusk, Balbriggan, Swords, Donabate, Naul, Stamullen, Gormanston, Malahide and Ballyboughal. MSPA classes include Musical Theatre, Hip Hop, Contemporary, Tap, Creative Drama, Drama Exam and Singing (Solo, Duo & Group). MSPA will continue with their classes that they introduced last September, a Strength, Stretch & Technique class and an Adult Class (30+ yrs), both classes will be taught by Leah.
At MSPA, we feel every child has a hidden talent within them and we will do our best to nurture that talent through different disciplines within our school. All our classes are based around our mission statement,
“To have fun within a friendly atmosphere”.
our team
Susie Moore - Director/Musical Theatre
Susie started singing and dancing at the tender age of 3 with the Billie Barry Stage School. She took part in many Christmas pantomimes in the Gaiety Theatre, including Goldilocks and the three bears, Hansel and Gretel, Red Riding Hood & Mother Goose. In 1980, Susie played 2 different orphans (Duffy & Tessie) in the Musical “Annie” in the Gaiety Theatre. This ran for 11 months alongside Maureen Potter, Jacinta Whyte & Angeline Ball. Susie was no stranger to the Christmas toy shows with Gay Byrne, she also took part in the Tony Kenny & Twink Christmas shows on RTE. After leaving Billie Barry, Susie began teaching Musical Theatre in Diggs Lane, to 3-14 year olds. Susie became a member of the Rathmines and Rathgar musical society in 1993 and took part in many shows including, My Fair Lady, South Pacific, Guys and Dolls, “A night with Gilbert and Sullivan" and The Pirates of Penance. She also joined the Rush Musical Society and was involved in “Fiddler on the Roof” , “Curtains” and "Pirates of Penzance in the Mill Bank Theatre. Susie will perform in Young Frankenstein (March 2025) |
Michelle Moore - Director/Creative Drama
Michelle started singing and dancing at the age of 3 with the Billie Barry Stage School. She took part in five consecutive pantomimes in the Gaiety Theatre, alongside Maureen Potter including, Little Red Riding Hood, Goldilocks and the three Bears, Hansel & Gretel, Aladdin & Cinderella. She also took part in Sunday night at the Olympia for 8 weeks. Michelle appeared on The Late Late Toy Show, The Mike Murphy Show, The Tony Kenny Christmas shows and on a commercial for TV/Cinema. During her teenage summer months, Michelle performed in Butlins alongside Jacinta Whyte in their Cabaret and also in the Shelling Hotel, Raheny. After leaving Billie Barry, Michelle began teaching in Diggs Lane to 3-14 year olds and then at “The Factory” Burrow Street. Michelle took part in various courses with the Gaiety School of Acting & the Abbey School of Acting. Michelle joined the Rush Musical Society in November 2006, where she took part in “Pirates of Penance”, "Hollywood Pinafore", “Fiddler on the Roof” , “The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas” and "Jesus Christ Superstar and Young Frankenstein (March 2025) |
Susan Moore - Musical Theatre / Tap
Susan, born into a theatrical family, started singing and dancing at the Billie Barry Stage School at the age of 3, where she was involved in a wide variety of professional work. She performed with the RTE Concert Orchestra in the National Concert Hall on many occasions and appeared in numerous Christmas pantomimes & summer productions in both the Gaiety and Olympia theatres, including Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Babes in the Wood and Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs. Susan has also featured on various TV shows including the Late Late Toy Show, Bibi, Live at 3, Sunday Night at the Gaiety/Olympia, to name but a few, and has featured on a number of TV and radio commercials. She has also recorded singles accompanying some of Ireland’s leading artists such as the Dublin City Ramblers & Susan McCann. Susan was later involved with the R&R Musical Society, where she took part in their production of Carousel at the Gaiety and also their 90th anniversary show in the National Concert Hall. Susan was delighted to come on board as a Musical Theatre teacher with the MSPA in November 2006, where she teaches children from the age of 3 to 18. |
Leah Meagher - Musical Theatre/ SST/Adult/Advanced Jazz/Hip Hop
Musical Theatre has been a part of Leah’s life for as long as she can remember. She owes much of her confidence, friends and love of the theatre to MSPA. Leah graduated with a Diploma in Dance, Technique, Performance, and Choreography from BIFE, trained at DIT Consrvatory of Musica & Drama, is a certified Flexibility teacher under AlixaFlexibility and has a Bachelors Degree from UCD. Leah also completed her Speech and Drama exams with The Royal Irish Academy of Music. Leah has been a dance teacher at T since the age of 16, teaching primarily at The Moore School of Performing Arts, as well as Cecilian Theatre Arts and The Independent Theatre Workshop & her own Adult Dance classes in Drumcondra. Choreography Credits: "Aladdin Jr" (RnR Junior MS), "Oliver" (MSPA), "Spring Awakening" (Entr'Acte MS), "It's All That Variety Show" (Cecilian Theatre Arts), "9to5" (North East MS), "Rising Stars" (Co-choreographer/MSPA), "Cabaret" (UCD MS), "Our House" (MSPA) & "Chicago" (Inters piece with UCD MS), "Gotta Dance" (MSPA), "The Little Mermaid" and Beauty and the Beast" (Kamp Kohut USA), along with many annual summer camps, concerts & dance competitions. Awards: "Best Choreographer" (AIMS 2023 & 2019), "Best Choreography" (AIMS 2023 & 2019), "Scholarship to Menina Fortunato Dance Intensive in Hollywood" (2020), "BTEC Performing Arts Learner of The Year" (BIFE), "Best Choreography" (MT Intervarsities Competition 2018), "Best Female Performer" (MT Intervarsities Competition 2017). |
Kelley Brassington - Singing
Kelley has been singing and dancing from the ripe age of 3 years old with the Moore School of Performing Arts, playing parts such as Mother Superior (Sister Act), Jan (Grease) and Fiona (Shrek the Musical). Kelley won 1st place in Wesley College singing competition in the U17's category in 2015. Thanks to her time in MSPA, she fell in love with performing and specifically singing. Kelley was an assistant teacher at MSPA from 2015-2017 and became MSPA's singing teacher in 2021, teaching students in solo, duo and group classes. Kelley is vocally trained in Jazz, Musical Theatre, Classical voice and Commercial vocals and has just graduated from the British and Irish Modern Music Institute (BIMM) where she a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in commercial modern music (vocals) and music production. Since starting at MSPA some of Kelley's students have taken part in the Feis Ceoil at the RDS, Dublin (2023) where they were awarded 1st place in the U14's and 2nd place in U12's category. Kelley took on the role of 'Musical Director' for MSPA's production of "Oliver Jr" in the Millbank Theatre, Rush (2023) and more recently in their 'Step into the Spotlight' show in the Helix Theatre, both were a huge success. Kelley also creates her own music, writing and performing under her stage name 'K E L' with her band, performing in live music venues around Dublin City. Kelley is passionate about singing and focuses on creating a fun, challenging and welcoming environment for the students to flourish and explore their voices to become the best they can be. |
Daniel Mahon - Exam, Creative Drama & Self Tape/Acting for Camera.
Daniel has been a member of MSPA since he was four and has played many solo parts with them, including Mr Thenardier from “Les Miserables”, Judah from “Joseph and his Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat”, Fagin and Bill Sykes from “Oliver”. Daniel has many wonderful memories at MSPA and has life long friends from his time there. Daniel is a recent graduate of The Lir Academy. Graduating from the Three Year Bachelor in Acting in 2022. Since leaving The Lir, he has performed in 'EXIT -PURSUED BY A PINT', a new play by Kat Ennis in the Scene and Heard Festival 2023 and as The Black O'Donnell with Quintessence Theatre in connection with An Tain in 'INTO THE DARK'. He also played Patrick Hogan in ANU's, 'STAGING THE TREATY' at the National Concert Hall which was aired on RTE Culture (2023). While at the Lir he played, Francois 'Franz/Frank' Lafayette in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' 'APPROPRIATE' directed by Joy Nesbitt; Barnardine & Froth in Shakespeare's MEASURE FOR MEASURE directed by Joe Dowling; John Morris in Kate O'Brien's DISTINGUISHED VILLA directed by Hilary Wood; Vladimir in Chekov's THREE SISTERS directed by Marc Atkinson Borrull and Dr Gibbs in Thornton Wilder's OUR TOWN directed by Wayne Jordan. He has also studied acting on camera with John Dawson, and Graham Cantwell and played the part of Paul in the short movie “LILY”, which won best Short Drama in the Galway Fleadh along with many more awards. Daniel went onto play the part of Paul in the full length movie "WHO WE LOVE". Daniel loves teaching drama at MSPA along with Eve. |
Niamh McGowan - Creative Drama
Niamh is a director/movement director with an MA in Theatre Practice from the Gaiety School of Acting. She began singing, dancing and acting at the age of 3 with the Moore School of Performing Arts where she attended for 15 years. Thanks to MSPA, Niamh fell in love with theatre performing in many shows such as Annie, Oliver and Fiddler on the Roof as a child. In recent years Niamh has performed with UCD, Glencullen and Rush Musical Societies. Her favourite roles include ‘Olive’ in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, ‘Sarah’ in Our House and ‘Cecily’ in The Importance of Being Earnest. In 2020, she founded a new musical theatre group called Entr'acte and is delighted to be directing their first full scale musical in Smock Alley, Spring Awakening. Credits include: Evita in concert at the National Concert Hall (Irish Youth Musical Theatre & National Symphony Orchestra - Assistant Director), Come From Away extract (The Helix, the Moore School of Performing Arts - Director/Choreographer), Entr'acte: A Showcase of Musical Theatre (Liberty Hall - Producer/Director/Movement Director), Never Mind The Weather (Fizz & Chips Theatre - Movement Director) , Newsies (UCD Musical Society, Intervarsity entry winner - overall show & Choreographer), Curtains (UCD Musical Society - Choreographer / Assistant Director), Company (UCD Musical Society - Choreographer), Tír na nÓg workshop (Aon Scéal Theatre, Choreographer/Movement Director) . |
Aidan Jolliffe Byrne - Hip Hop & Contemporary
Aidan is a professional dancer originally from South Africa. He started dancing at the age of 6, inspired by playing Just Dance on the Xbox 360, and began aspiring to dance professionally at 11. Aidan trained at Ballet West for a year, then moved to the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow, where he earned a BA in Modern Ballet. His training specialised in ballet, contemporary, jazz and commercial dance. During college, Aidan had the opportunity to perform at the WHO 75th Anniversary Healing Arts concert at Victoria Hall in Geneva, a world -premier stage performance. He also worked with the Scottish Ballet Youth Exchange group under choreographer Sarah Kemal and performed in Moving Minds: Tether, choreograpged by Maddy Squire. Additionally, he collaborated with Move (NYC) in Collab, choreographed by Maleek Washington and performed in The Bow Dance, Choreographed by Chanel DaSilva. After graduating, he took a year to clarify his goals and began exploring the commercial dance world. Recently, he has performed at the UEFA Europa League final Opening Ceremony at the Aviva stadium, working with Mass Movement Agency and Storm Creatives. He also appeared in Synthetic Pleasure, directed by Stuart Langfield and choreorgraphed by Konstantin. He now teaches at Westside Performong Arts and more, whenever he can spread his art. Aidan teaches students aged 10 upwards and is excited to come teach at MSPA this November. |
Katie Rose Weir - Advanced Jazz & Hip Hop
Katie graduated from Urdang Academy in London in 2022, where she trained in professional musical theatre and dance for 3 years. Katie is just back from her international tour debut, performing all across Australia and New Zealand with 'The World of Musicals'. She also recently appeared in Beauty and the Beast (The Lark), Snow White (National Stadium), Les Miserables (The Helix), Bugsy Malone (National Concert Hall), Urinetown, James and the giant peach, Titanic, The Mikado, Tiny The Musical, A better place workshop and concert. She also apperared in adverts for Deliveroo, Bord Gais, Londis and McDonalds. Alongside Peace Proms UK & Ireland (Soloist) and the UK and Ireland tour of Oliver! Alongside her theatre career Katie also has a following of over half a million people on TikTok, where she showcases her everyday life as a performer. |
Eve Duffy - Creative Drama & Tap
Eve Duffy is a young award winning filmmaker and actor. She is currently studying Film at the National Film School in IADT. As a filmmaker Eve is the youngest director to receive a film commission from RTE and the youngest director to have a film shown at Dublin International Film Festival, Eve’s short film “ A Wake to Remember” premiered in New York’s Times Square in November 2023. As an actor, Eve won Best Performance in the Irish Young Filmmaker of the year 2023, and was awarded first place in Feis Maitiu in the u14 monologue category in 2018. Eve attended MSPA from 2018 to 2023 and acted in many of our products. |
|
|
See our full Child Protection Policy here.
|
| |||
Services |
Company
|
| ||||||||||