The Carmichael School of Theatre Arts is located in Telford, Shropshire.

Operating from the Depot, our well equipped, modern studios, benefiting from floor to ceiling mirrors.

We provide a professional, caring service, to enhance your learning experience.

Offering tuition at all levels for dance, including ballet, tap, modern and jazz, drama and singing.

The RAD and ISTD syllabi are training systems that set and safeguard the standards of dance for hundreds of thousands of students throughout more than forty countries all over the world.

Our prime concern is to ensure that the unformed bodies of young children are protected from the damage that can result from poor teaching and that the students are taught correctly and at the right speed.

The staff at this school are fully qualified and registered to teach the syllabi correctly, creatively and above all safely.

All staff have Enhanced CRB disclosures

We offer:
Intense training for the gifted student - leading onto a professional career

A happy and rewarding hobby for the child who loves to dance - as part of an all round education

Correct and specialised training for boys

Drama and Singing tuition

Teacher training

We have examination sessions every term and all students are eligible to take part in our bi-annual show.

We have contracts to provide dancers for local professional pantomimes

School Policy

We have a three week (consecutive) trial period, paid in advance, for the student to settle in and then if they wish to continue, we ask for payment until the end of term.

Fees are payable per term, they must be paid in the first three weeks of term

It is necessary to correct instruction that the teacher will make appropriate physical contact with the student

Nicola Carmichael - Principal

Nicola trained at the Hammond School in Chester and then moved to work abroad in Germany and Italy for several years.

On returning to the U.K. she became Principal of Carmichael Theatre Arts in 1987 and under her guidance Nicola and her colleagues now teach 350 students and have been teacher training since 1998.

Nicola is a tutor for the new Classical Ballet Teaching Certificate for the RAD and she holds her Licenciate Diploma in the Modern Dance and Imperial Ballet faculties for the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing.