ARE YOU READY TO SHINE?
We are now auditioning during the whole of the term; few places left but going fast!
Do you want a career in performance?
Coming to Millennium Performing Arts is an exciting opportunity to learn about performance from leading West End stars. Here we do things differently – you’ll find out what it’s like as if inside a professional company. As soon as you step through our doors, you’re no longer a student. You’re taught by professionals who are active performers, choreographers and directors. You start building your professional reputation from day 1.
MPA stands for MUCH PERSONAL ATTENTION! Purposfully being a small college in the heart of London means you get constant direct feedback from your tutors and more opportunity to learn with your peers; we take care of each other, just like a family.
At MPA COLLEGE, you not only get the very best technical training, you learn much more than that: developing confidence to step into any audition and win that job!
Our Courses
Our Artistic Director
ZAK NEMORIN
Zak trained at Millennium Performing Arts, London Studio Centre and The BRIT School. He is Artistic Director at Millennium Performing Arts and also for TheJazzCore Company, a spicy professional collective of dance artists devoted to the lineage and evolutions of Jazz Dance in all its forms. Zak further heads MPA College’s dance department and is Course Leader for their degree course, as validated by University of Worcester. He was also a panellist for the Artist Of Choice Awards 2016.
As a performer he has starred in West End and International productions of Wizard of Oz; Strictly Ballroom; High Society; Dirty Rotten Scoundrels; Viva Forever!; Sweet Charity; Carousel; Aladdin; Mary Poppins; Chicago; We Will Rock You; West Side Story; Legally Blonde; She Loves Me; Cats; Saturday Night Fever; We Will Rock You; Absolutely Fabulous and Maybe by Emma Bunton.
Zak had the Original Concept and is Co-Creator / Additional Choreographer for UPROOTED: The Journey of Jazz Dance.
As a Choreographer he further created: ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT and DORIAN GRAY (Incognito Theatre – Off Broadway, London and Edinburgh); STORY OF OUR YOUTH (National Youth Theatre); HERE, LONDON ROAD and STANDING BY all for the Stanwix Theatre; POSH (Warwick Arts Centre).
Zak recently was Associate Choreographer for the Royal Danish Ballet School and now has this role at Oure Performing Arts in Denmark.
He received an Offie Awards finalist nomination for Best Choreographer for GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES at the Union Theatre, which actually won Best Musical 2020. He has also choreographed for TV’s MIDSOMER MURDERS and AGATHA RAISIN.
This year’s credits are a devised immersive Musical Theatre experience called BEHIND THE CURTAIN, performed by MPA’s ToTheCore and TheJazzCore Company at The Victoria & Albert Museum as part of the V&A Performance Festival 2023 and he is Ron Howell’s Associate Choreographer for REBECCA The Musical at The Charing Cross Theatre, London.
Zak is a sought-after teacher in and around Europe and he prides himself on counting so many of the young talented performers of today having been his students; he loves bringing the best out in people and can’t wait to get going every new academic year with a fresh cohort of students and pushing along the returners for their further training and education.
Alumni
We are extremely proud of our alumni, who go on to enjoy exceptionally high employment rates in the profession – on average, over 90% are professionally employed each year.
Learn how our students feel about their experience of studying with us and see a list of recent credits here.
Sir Derek Jacobi CBE
Patron of Millennium Performing Arts
“Though I am known primarily for my acting, I have always loved song and dance. Millennium Performing Arts is a launching pad for the young triple threat artist of tomorrow. The college ethos requires commitment and hard work and in return students experience the best in development from a wonderful teaching staff. I am very pleased to be Patron of this excellent college.