Gaiety School of Acting - National Theatre School of Ireland

The Gaiety School of Acting – The National Theatre School of Ireland is a Not for Profit organisation founded in 1986 by the internationally renowned theatre director Joe Dowling, in response to the lack of full-time actor training programmes in Ireland at that time. The School is now widely regarded as the country’s premier training facility for actors.

Our policy is to train actors for theatre, film and television. The School has a broad offering which includes a range of courses for international students delivered both in conjunction with US partner organisations and available for solo applicants. It offers international students a variety of study abroad programs encompassing practical acting classes that examine the works of some of our greatest Irish Writers, from Samuel Beckett to Martin McDonagh. Studying abroad is the opportunity of a lifetime and Dublin is an experience of a lifetime and is based in the centre of Dublin city’s cultural quarter, Temple Bar.