Casa Valentina
By Harvey Fierstein


October, 2019. Theatre 501, Dublin

Based on real events, a group of men gather in Casa Valentin, a holiday retreat in the Catskills specifically for men who enjoy dressing and living out their inner female identities. But this idyll soon begins to fracture as the different reasons for their presence there, brings them into sharp conflict.

The Decriminalisation Monologues

June 2018 Dublin.
May 2019 Brighton Fringe Festival, Prague Fringe Festival
July 2019, Greater Manchester Fringe Festival

The stories of life for LGBTQ+ people in Ireland before the decriminalisation of homosexuality in 1993.

Winner of the National GALA Award for 2020 and Nominated for Best New play at Prague Fringe, Brighton Fringe and Manchester Fringe.

Passing On

May 2018, International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival
May 2018, Brighton Fringe Festival.

The story of two men who plan to have a child via a surrogate but whose life is thrown into chaos when the hidden past of one of them emerges.

Nominated for Best New Play, Brighton Fringe Festival 2018

The Paradise

May 2017
The Complex, Dublin

Dublin’s oldest gay nightclub is closing down. A group of old friends gather to see the place off, but before they can do that, some old scores will need to be settled. Are there some things that just can’t be forgiven?
Set in 1993 and the present day, The Paradise is a new immersive electro-pop musical, with fiendishly catchy songs by the Irish duo, Eden.

Winner of the National GALA Award 2017.

The Ref

May 2016, International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival
November 2016 Dublin

A comedy with songs, a satire on the Vote NO campaign in Ireland’s Equal Marriage Referendum.

Winner of the Hilton Edwards Award and the National GALA Award 2017.

The Laramie Project
June 2016

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Matthew Shepard, a 21 year old gay student was tortured and left to die at a fence in Laramie, Wyoming on October 12th 1998. This searing and forensic examination of how this terrible crime could happen, draws on interviews with over sixty people, friends and family of Matthew and residents of the town of Laramie, reflect on a murder which led to an international spotlight being put on hate crimes everywhere.

The Equals
May 2015

Finbar is relocating to quiet Leitrim to escape a failed relationship. But Leitrim is being run by a new political force, ‘The Lesbian Alliance’, whose leaders had successfully beaten fierce competition from San Francisco and New York to host the world’s largest LGBT community drama festival. Now they want to win it! They ‘persuade’ Finbar to cobble together a group that includes, the Mayor, a local sheep farmer, as well as the local parish priest and Quentin, a washed up director to help. Quentin’s plan for a ‘gritty’ musical called ‘The Lesbians of Leitrim’, is heading towards a very humiliating public disaster. Can they possibly triumph? This comedy, with songs, presents a hilarious and unexpected take on gay life in rural Ireland
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Standing on Ceremony
March 2014

In these nine short plays we meet a Christian Fudamentalist who thinks that the gay couple who have just moved in next door have designs on her husband, a couple who can't agree on their wedding vows, a woman having second thoughts about her impending wedding in another country, and two men whose long planned for wedding ends in unexpected tragedy. You'll, laugh, you'll cry, and you'll understand what all the fuss is about, as we enter the run up to the historic referendum on marriage equality.

Love and Pride
June 2014

Our annual show for Dublin Pride, this year is a  a revue type show with an eclectic mix of short plays, sketches and songs. Something for everyone in the audience! Come dressed up in all Colours of the Rainbow and have a gay old time! All proceeds will be going to support the fabulous  Outhouse to facilitate their ongoing support of the LGBT community

Tits Up!
May 2014

In this spiky comedy, we meet Susanne and Clive, a couple who seems to have it all; the big house, money and social standing. But Susanne’s sharp (and very politically incorrect) tongue is of little use, when her Polish cleaner Magda, who has secret plans of her own, reveals that Clive is not all he seems. Can they each find happiness out of the carnage that ensues?
The production recently completed a sell out run at the International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival where  Acting Out were nominated for the Doric Wilson Award.

Standing on Ceremony 
March 2013

Written to support the Equal marriage campaign in the USA these nine short plays by leading American Playwrights including Neil LaBute (In the Company of Men, Fat Pig), moises Kaufman (The Laramie Project) and Paul Rudkin (In and Out, Jeffrey) explore the effect of marriage on LGBt couples with a mix of humour, pathos and righteous indignation. The event is a fundraiser for the organisation Marriage Equality as we enter the final year before Ireland will be voting on Marriage Equality in a National referendum

gay : dad
July and November 2013

Drawn verbatim from interviews with gay and straight men in Ireland, a moving, funny and surprising exploration of the relationships between gay and straight fathers and and their gay sons.

Making Out: Short plays for National Coming Out Day
​October 2012

To celebrate International Coming Out Day, on Friday October 11th, the National Lesbian and Gay Federation invites you to a new show by Acting Out. Nine new plays in ninety minutes, from brave new writers on the theme of Coming Out.

Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde by Moises Kaufman
June 2012

This dramatic interweaving of transcripts from the three trials of Oscar Wilde for Gross Indecency with contemporary accounts, newspaper reports and interviews from friends and enemies collide to produce a powerful examination of homophobia, hypocrisy and the double standards which left Oscar Wilde, the most popular playwright of his time, in ruins.