Have you ever obtained your tickets to our annual Backstage Membership fundraiser on July ninth? If not, listed below are 5 causes… 1) It’s FUN – with cocktails, a present, dinner backstage and a cabaret! 2) It helps an unimaginable trigger – making a bursary for Stage Administration & Technical Theatre college students – the unsung heroes of behind-the-scenes. 3) You possibly can pay in instalments through Klarna of €50 a month over 3 months 4) Walden is bought out so this may be your solely probability to see it! 5) Our cabaret options the stellar expertise of our employees, college students and alumni, a lot of whom got here to us with important theatre expertise. We raised the roof the final two years! 6) We all know, we stated 5 however we will’t assist this one… As soon as you’re within the door with us, you don’t need to put your hand in your pocket for the evening – simply allow us to enteratain you!
Be a part of us on july ninth from 6.30pm for Walden or You Obtained Older on July ninth. Tickets are €150 with all income going in the direction of supporting our Stage Administration & Technical Theatre college students by way of bursaries. Carry your folks, household or your colleagues for an important evening out at The Lir Academy.
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After a unbelievable run of Gundog by Simon Longman, with some ultimate tickets left for as we speak, we’ve got two extra Gradfest 2025 reveals to go! Gradfest is staged by our MFA administrators, designers and producers, carried out and crewed by our undergraduate college students. This yr’s Gradfest options the work of our inaugural MFA in Theatre Producing college students.
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Walden by Amy Berryman Sat. fifth – Wed. ninth July Guide right here
Beneath a dying sky, twin sisters reunite, one returned from the celebrities, the opposite rooted within the soil of what stays. In a woodland cabin, time stretches and reminiscence stirs, they face a future they by no means dreamed of.
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You Obtained Older by Clare Barron Mon seventh – Thurs tenth July Guide right here
After dropping her job, boyfriend and condominium, Mae returns house to deal with her dad. You Obtained Older is about falling aside as you’re failing to launch, and what you may discover as an alternative
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Try our galleries from our most up-to-date manufacturing – click on right here.
Gundog by Simon Longman’s inventive group inclduing our graduating MFA college students, Kate Russell (Director), Jack Shanley (Producer), Cecilia Mondadori (Set Designer) and Lisa Della Chiesa (Costume Designer). Images by Invoice Woodland
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A Thank You to Brian Singleton
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Samuel Beckett Chair of Drama and Theatre and Lir Academy Educational Directer, Professor Brian Singleton, is retiring on the finish of this summer season.
In celebration of Brian’s management and impression on so many college students and employees at The Lir Academy, we gathered to have fun the final 15 years of bringing The Lir Academy to the place it’s as we speak. It was a unbelievable afternoon of reminiscences and music, and a giant congratulations and thanks to all the scholars who contributed.
Brian has been a visionary information in shaping The Lir, Nationwide Academy of Dramatic Artwork at Trinity Faculty Dublin, and it was together with his dedication that we’ve got solid ourselves to be the success we’re as we speak.
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Highlight Prize Awards 2025
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We’re so delighted and pleased with Molly McFadden, who has been chosen as one in every of 22 finalists to carry out as a part of the Highlight Prize for 2025! Molly will probably be performing Highlight Prize Showcasein London on Wednesday 2 July in entrance of a specifically invited viewers of casting administrators, brokers, producers, administrators and actors.
You possibly can tune into the stay streamed performances on Wednesday 2nd of July at 7:30pm (BST). You possibly can view it on the hyperlink right here.
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Do you know, that you may pay for Backstage Membership and plenty of of our brief programs in installments with Klarna. The way it works:
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Contact us for a cost hyperlink (if there isn’t one on the web site)
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When selecting how you can pay – choose Klarna
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You may be taken to a join their service utilizing your card particulars
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They set you as much as take the primary cost and description how a lot every will probably be
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Then the funds come out routinely over the subsequent 2 months
Programs embrace: Teen Summer season Appearing Camps – July & August, Screenwriting Intensive – right here or our 6-month-long programmes Actors’ Ensemble and Youth Ensemble.
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Puppetry Efficiency Workshop Course Begins: twelfth & thirteenth July (Weekend) Length: 10am – 5pmPuppetry Efficiency is a weekend course which can look at a number of the a number of types of puppetry used throughout theatre and filmed productions. Discover hand, object, rod, tabletop, moving-mouth and Bunraku types, and to the fundamental methods used to animate a puppet.
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Musical Theatre Intensive Course Begins: twenty eighth July Length: 10am – 5pm, 2 weeksThroughout this two-week-long course, college students will work with a singing tutor/musical director, core Lir lecturers and main musical theatre administrators and choreographers, to develop appearing, voice, motion, singing and dance abilities.
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Summer season Appearing Camps Course Begins: 14th July / twenty eighth August Length: 10am – 2pm, 1 weekThis summer season course takes place in August and is designed for younger actors aged 13-15 who’ve a passionate curiosity in performing and want to have an early begin in appearing coaching. Get a style of the setting of a theatre academy with core Lir Academy tutors
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Youth Ensemble Course Begins: twenty seventh September Length: 10am – 4.30pm, SaturdaysYouth Ensemble is a 6month programme of drama courses for younger individuals. Taught by main professionals, a lot of whom additionally train on the Basis Diploma in Appearing and Theatre and the Bachelor in Appearing undergraduate programs at The Lir Academy.
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