Find your loud.

Confidence doesn't come from being told you can.
It comes from doing it.
So we play, we perform, we practise,
until they shine with their own internal ray of light.WHAT WE DO🎭 Speaking & Acting Clubs
Small, fun, actor-led after-school clubs,
right in your child's school.🌟 Teen Acting & Speaking Club
A weekly club for teens who love to perform,
or want to. Launching soon in Dublin 15.🎤 Teen Super Speaker Workshops
Two action-packed days in the school holidays.💬 One-to-one coaching
Acting or public speaking, built around you.
For auditions, interviews and big speeches.Get in touch: 087 655 1776 · laura@bravevoices

Teen Acting Club

Coming to Dublin 15 ·
Ages 13 – 17Act it. Say it. Own it.

A brand new club for teens who love to perform, or want to.Big characters, real scenes, loads of laughs, and the kind of confidence that follows them everywhere.Acting is the best confidence training there is.Led by Laura Jane Laughlin, actor (Abbey · Gate · West End) and speaking coach.

📅 First 6-week block starts Tuesday 3 November
📍 Castleknock Community Centre, Laurel Lodge Road, D15
🔁 6-week blocks

🎭 ACTING CLUB · 6.00pm -7.00pm · €90 founding rate (then €100)
Drama games, improv, scenes and characters they create themselves. High energy, zero boring bits, and a brilliant way to meet new people.

• Book Acting Club €90

🎤 SMALL GROUP (From Jan 27) · 7.00pm - 8.00pm · max 6
Ready to go further? Detailed work on monologues, audition pieces and acting exams, with real one-to-one attention.

• Small Group €120

⭐ CAN'T CHOOSE? DO BOTH From Jan 2027 · €200 founding rate (then €220)
Two hours of acting every Tuesday, and a saving of €10.

• Book both – €200

Exam entry fees are paid separately to the exam board.
After booking, you'll get a short form so I can get to know your teen.
Questions? 087 655 1776 · [email protected]

• Go to Bravevoices.ie

Meet your coach

I'm Laura Jane Laughlin, actor, voiceover artist, speaking coach, acting teacher and founder of Brave Voices.Since having my own kids, I've become wildly passionate about one thing: helping young people feel genuinely good about speaking. Not just getting through it, but loving it.I trained at Trinity College Dublin and have worked professionally on stage and screen for over twenty years: from the Abbey and the Gate to the West End, television and voice-over.I’m also wildly dyslexic. School told me words weren’t my thing. The stage told me otherwise. I’ve spent my career proving that how you speak has nothing to do with how you spell. It has everything to do with training.For years I’ve taught speech, acting, creative drama and communication to young people across Dublin, and run Transition Year programmes in schools. I have also just launched the Brave Voices Acting and Speaking Afterschool Club, in 3 incredible founding schools. And they have all sold out. Here’s what all of this has taught me: most people aren’t bad speakers. They’ve just never been trained. And more than anything, they’ve never been given the reps.Confidence isn’t a personality type you’re born with. It’s built by doing: standing up, speaking, discovering you survived, then doing it again until it feels like yours.That’s why I built Brave Voices.

TEEN SUPER SPEAKER
by Brave Voices

📅 New Dates coming soon📍 ITW Clonskeagh
👥 Ages 12-17 ✋ Only 14 places 🌱 No experience needed

The best thing they'll do this mid-term.
Every teenager needs these skills.
For school, for interviews, for life.THIS MID-TERM, THEY'LL LEARN TO:🗣 Fill a room without shouting
Voice care, breath and real projection.☀️ Find their internal ray of light
Actor games to walk in with energy.🎭 Speak like a pro
The techniques actors use on stage.📝 Build a speech that sparkles
A strong start, magic middle, big finish.🎬 Get filmed on day two
Personal notes, then their speech on camera.In a world of AI, the ability to speak as yourself — clearly, warmly, confidently — is the one skill that can’t be automated. That’s what we grow here."This workshop is what every teenager needs."
A Brave Voices parent“Laura Jane is a passionate and dynamic teacher who inspires her students… she discovers what works for each individual and builds their confidence in a fun and collaborative environment.”
— Gillian Oman, Director & Founder, The Independent Theatre Workshop“After 11 years here, I can confidently say you are the best teacher I ever had.”
— Lucy, age 15, drama studentDoes my teen need any experience?
None at all. Shy teens and confident ones both thrive here.My teen is really nervous. Is this for them?
Yes. Everything is built step by step, and nobody is put on the spot.Will they be filmed?
Their speech is filmed for them to take home, only with your consent. You choose on the booking form.

The Brave Voices Lab. A Transition Year Programme for your school.
6 Weeks to find the tools to grow as a speaker

The Brave Voices Lab is an energetic, on-your-feet six-week communication and public speaking programme designed for Transition Year — 12 hours that take students from “I hate speaking in front of people” to standing up and owning the room.
Built and delivered by a professional actress and drama educator with years of experience running TY communication programmes across Dublin schools. Every session is practical, vibrant and genuinely fun — and gets students on their feet and speaking from week one, because that’s the only way real confidence is built.
Across six weeks, students will:
• Build speaking skills — voice, presence and delivery
• Work on mindset — managing nerves and building real confidence
• Craft their own story — every student writes and develops a short speech
• Perform on camera — finishing with a showcase speech they can see their progress in
The details:
• Six weekly 2 hour sessions (12 hours total), delivered in your school
• Autumn intakes: Block 1 starting early September · Block 2 starting late October
• Limited places“The boys really enjoyed your module throughout the year — this was very clear from their feedback.”
— Transition Year Coordinator, Dublin secondary school.

Get in touch

[email protected]
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