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Limerick Youth Theatre is accepting new members for 2025/2026
Limerick Youth Theatre announces auditions for new members for 2025/2026
Limerick Youth Theatre is holding open auditions on Saturday, September 20th, for new members for 2025/2026
Limerick Youth Theatre (LYT) held its first open audition in 1997 and since then it has provided a platform for young adults to experiment in a myriad of theatrical practises including writing, directing, acting, production/stage management, lighting/costume design, radio productions, live performances, film, music and dance.
LYT is now looking for new members and is holding an open audition on Saturday 20 September 2025 at 11 am in The Basement, 73 O’Connell Street, Limerick. Eircode V94 KPR4. If you are young, aged between 16 and 23, interested in the performing arts and willing to meet, create and perform alongside like-minded young adults, LYT might be the place for you!
Over the past twenty-five years, LYT has developed a programme of activities which has allowed young people to develop as actors and excel. In 2025, LYT won the Excellence in Youth Services Award for its short film Imaha from Education and Training Boards Ireland (ETBI). This national award recognised the outstanding achievements in education, training, and youth services across Ireland’s 16 ETBs.
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LYT also secured funding from the Arts Council under its Young Ensembles Scheme to produce 12 Scissors, a theatre film with a group of LYT members over the summer months. 12 Scissors will premiere at Culture Night 2025.
Every year since 2010, LYT has successfully run its two outreach programmes, Transition Year Theatre (TYT) and The Creative Show (with a pause during Covid). This has meant that LYT has established long standing collaborative relationships with disability services, youth-led organisations and secondary schools in the city and county. The TYT work experience programme is specifically designed for TY students to give them hands on experience in theatre, and The Creative Show, a collaboration with AVISTA CLG (Limerick), involves a number of school choirs, Music Generation (Limerick) with over 150 performers rehearsing together over the course of three months to create a comic piece of theatre. The Creative Show also incorporates dance, song, music and short films to include as many performers as possible.
LYT didn’t rest on its laurels during the pandemic either and launched and distributed a handbook of drama exercises entitled 103 Drama Exercises curated by Drama Facilitator/Actor/Theatre Director, John Hogan and illustrated by Artist/Illustrator, Roisin Clothier (former LYT member). This project was conceived, designed and edited during the pandemic. This pocket sized handbook was produced to help drama facilitators, primary and secondary school teachers and is available to download free of charge from the LYT website
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