Act Out Youth Theatre

NEW REGISTRATIONS OPEN FOR WEEKLY WORKSHOPS 2024/2025

Time & Place: Dunshaughlin (Monday evenings from 16^th September & Navan (Tuesday evenings from 17^th September)

Facilitators: Anthony Kinahan, Artistic Director (Actor/Theatre-maker) & Robert Downes (Actor/Theatre-maker)

Previous Performance Experience is useful but not essential.

Places are limited

Registration open to new members in the Meath area of secondary school age.

Email actoutmeath@gmail.com to express interest.

Act Out Youth Theatre is delighted to announce they are now accepting New Registrations for Weekly Workshops for the 2024/2025 year:

• Dunshaughlin – Monday evenings from 18:00-19:30 – starting from 16^th September @ St Seachnall’s NS
• Navan – Tuesday evenings from 18:00-19:30 – starting from 17^th September @ the Solstice Arts Centre.

If you’re a young person in the Meath area of secondary school age, and you’re interested in learning more about theatre, performing or expressing yourself in artistic ways, then email actoutmeath@gmail.com with your name, DOB, your parent/guardian’s email and contact number & your preferred workshop location – Navan or Dunshaughlin.

You will then be added to the Act Out YT Waiting List & you will be contacted regarding vacancies.

For more information, email actoutmeath@gmail.com or check out the Act Out Youth Theatre Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/ActOutYT/, Twitter @ActOutYT & Insta @ActOutYT

Quote from AOYT AD Anthony Kinahan:

“We are very excited about the upcoming year here at Act Out Youth Theatre.

Off the back of a very successful show (“Innovations” in at the Solstice Arts Centre in May); participating in a week-long residential in Kilkenny and a Summer Project about Backstage Production & Design that even professional theatre-makers would be envious of … our plans for this upcoming year are just bigger & better.

For young people in the Meath area aged 13+ that are interested in theatre, performance or expressing themselves artistically, it’s a great place to come along, meet like-minded friends & have a bit of fun while also being creative.”

More about Act Out Youth Theatre:

Established in October 2017, Act Out Youth Theatre’s remit is to create quality theatre experiences with young people (13+) in the Meath area.  We are a not-for-profit charity, partnered with Solstice Arts Centre, Navan, Co Meath & partnered & supported by Meath County Council Arts Office. 

We are also a proud member of the Irish youth theatre community and affiliated to Youth Theatre Ireland. 

In the last few years, the members of Act Out have produced original, acclaimed plays (Inception (2018); PROJECTions (2019), Grandma’s Reindeer Games (2019) deLIBERATIONs (2022); Explorations (2023) & most recently Innovations (2024)) in the Solstice Arts Centre; Created online videos & had an online showcase of screen talent (Screen Scenes 2021); Stormed the Púca Festival; Had workshops with national experts, like Meath’s own playwright Deirdre Kinahan (The Unmanageable Sisters; Rathmines Road) & Casting Director Louise Kiely (Sing Street; Normal People); Participated in week-long residentials in Kilkenny with youth theatres from all around the country; Had our own weekend residentials to Carlingford; Had various theatre-trips and much more … & all this on top of usual weekly workshops.

We provide an annual programme of activities, responding to the needs & interests of the young people, & we pride ourselves on our ethos of accessibility, diversity & inclusion.

Our main objective is to nurture the education, social & personal competencies of our young people ensuring our activities are of benefit to the community, in so far as our work reflects local issues & community needs.

We aim to foster partnerships within the community & to advance the arts, culture & heritage of the area with young people at the helm.

Usually our workshops run every Monday at 6pm in Dunshaughlin & every Tuesday 2 workshops in the Solstice Arts Centre, Navan, at 6pm & 7.30pm.

Artistic Director, Anthony Kinahan (Actor/Theatre-maker; Harry Wild; Kin; Conversations with Friends)