Youghal Actor Jay Flavin – “Acting is something i always wanted to do”

” The House ” is broadcast on Dublin Community Television and is available on cable only in Dublin or online at www.dctv.ie  its about dodgy bankers, repossessions, and nasty newspaper editors.The series is produced by Billy Tyson, who lived and went to school in Youghal from 1975 to 1980, his parents had the Walter Raleigh Hotel during that period and continue to be regular visitors to see their cousins, the Kirwans.
By Youghalonline arts reporter / Photo: Michael Hussey Email: news@youghalonline.com

Actor Jay Flavin

The show is directed by Declan Cassidy, who’s multi award winning short film ”Whatever Turns You on ” won the 2009 Aspen Film Festival for best short film. Local actor Jay Flavin plays the part of a sub editor in a national newspaper. Jay said ” he was delighted to get the part, as acting is something i always wanted to do.

When i was a kid, my father used to point out Cork actors to me on the television, one in particular stands out, Derry Power because he was from Youghal, his brother Kevin had  a pub in the town called the Blackwater Inn now known as  Maggie Mays. I started doing night classes in Oct ‘04 with Shane Munro’s Irish Film Actors Workshop, then classes with the Gaeity School of Acting in Cork and now with Snatch Comedy Improvisation in Cork.

There’s a film making course in St John’s College in Cork, and the students are always looking for actors to volunteer their time to make short films. I then got a part as a doctor in ” Point of Departure ” written and directed by Max le Cain from the Cork Film Centre, which won the RTE best short film script in 2007, and will be broadcast in the near future.

The film starred Tony Award Winner Anna Manahan as an institutionalised person with severe memory problems. Jay who also works as a Life, Pensions and Mortgage broker in Youghal said ” i haven’t done any theatre in Youghal because i’m out seeing clients about three nights a week and this is when theatre is usual rehearsed.

My father was an actor with Youghal Little Theatre and i have uncles and cousins who love acting too. I’m delighted to get parts no matter how small, because i believe no opportunity to do what i always wanted to do should be squandered. I  got another small role in TG 4 documentary in july ‘09 in a series called Éalu 2 meaning Breakout a documentary about famous jail breaks in Ireland, which will be broadcast in 2010. Before i got involved in acting i thought it might be a bit glamorous, but now i see, its an industry like any other industry and a workplace like any other workplace.

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