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Term 3 Kicks Off At The Gaiety School of Acting
11 Apr 2014 : Aisling Newton
Term three kicks off at the Gaiety School of Acting this week and includes a variety of courses for emerging actors to long running professionals.

A host of famous faces have been through the school in recent years, some of who were successful at this year’s IFTA’s. Eva Birthistle picked up the award for Best Actress in a Leading Role Television for her portrayal of Sarah Bailey in the TV series ‘Amber’. Birthistle graduated from the Gaiety School of Acting in 1995 and has since gone on to become a renowned television and movie actress best known for ‘The Children’ (2008), ‘Breakfast on Pluto’ (2005) and ‘Ae Fond Kiss…’ (2004), which won her the London Critics Circle Film Award as “British Actress of the Year” in 2005. Other IFTA nominees included Jane McGrath (class of 2009) for Actress in a Leading Role Film, Caoilfhionn Dunne (class of 2007) for Actress in a Supporting Role Television, Charlie Murphy (class of 2008) and Deirdre O’Kane (class of 1986) both for Actress in a Leading Role Television, and Colin Farrell for Actor in a Supporting Role.

The Gaiety launched their new website, with the help of graduate Charlie Murphy (Love/Hate), last year and features a host of information about courses and also has a dedicated alumni section to keep up to date with successful graduates. The site also incorporates an ‘Interview of the Month’ section, which most recently featured Rex Ryan, a 2013 graduate who is currently starring as Derry in ‘Cornerstones’ showing at Smock Alley.

Former student Genevieve Hulme-Beaman (2010) recently won this year’s Stewart Parker Award for her play ‘Pondling’, which she both wrote and started in. Former winners of the prestigious Stewart Parker New Playwright Bursary include internationally renowned playwrights such as Enda Walsh, Conor Mc Pherson and Sebastian Barry. Hulme-Beaman lately starred alongside fellow GSA graduate, Lorna Quinn (class of 2007) in ‘Pride and Prejudice’ at the Gate Theatre.

Courses at the Gaiety school range from one year part-time courses to week long summer schools, which take place in Gormanston and at the Gaiety School in Temple Bar. A one day workshop entitled ‘Screenwriting Hothouse’ is also being made available to beginners and seasoned actors. The intensive workshop will focus on key areas of character story and dialogue writing. The day long course takes places in July under the guidance of award winning screenwriter Michelle Manahan (Fair City).

This year the Gaiety is running a career preparation course from July 8 – 24. The three week course will run twice a week from 7 – 10pm and is geared towards more established actors. Casting director Louise Kiely will be teaching certain sections of the course. Pace Borza-Butterly, Marketing Manager at the Gaiety School said: “The career preparation course allows people who are serious about acting to learn about the business and to hone in on their specific craft.” The school also caters for individual requests with their one-to-one coaching, which has become very popular in recent years. The pay-per-class can focus on any discipline including acting, voice, singing, movement, audition techniques, accent, film and TV, stage combat and public speaking etc. ‘Try for free’ classes are also on hand to give students the chance to sample courses before signing up.

Check out The Gaiety School of Acting for more information on courses and news updates.



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