The Level 7 certificate in Directing for Theatre in Maynooth University is part time, every second Saturday from October to May each year.
The course accepts up to 23 adult students aged 21 and over.
Each year the course attracts students from the amateur drama circuit, youth theatre sector, fringe, university and college drama societies, and professional actors who would like to develop directing skills.
It offers practical training in theatre directing and is facilitated by professional directors from the Irish, UK and US theatre.
The course is coordinated by Peter Hussey of Crooked House Theatre Company, and is taught by Sebastian Harcombe (former Head of Acting at RADA, Drama Centre and Drama Studio, London), Louise Lowe (Anu Productions and Abbey Theatre), John O' Hagan (Performing Arts Department Head at Lindenwood University, Professor of Theatre and the Creative Arts and Communications Division Director at Principia College, and Assistant Professor of Theatre at the University of Wyoming), Bairbre Ní Chaoimh (freelance director), Anna Galligan (Carlow Youth Theatre and Carlow Institute of Performing Arts), and Mary Linehan (former Kildare Couty Arts Office and co-founder of Smashing Times Theatre).
