Paisley workshops take place on a Saturday and also mid-week. Workshops take place during school term time. With three terms in the Youth Theatre year, there are roughly 34 workshops per year in total. Workshops take place in our base at Spires Drama Studios, as well as in The Wynd Centre and Paisley Museum.

Below the age of 12, groups consist only of members of the same age. For older members groups are structured according to age and experience. All of our groups are run by our trained staff, with the resources of of acompany that has specialised in working with children since 1988. All PACE staff are registered with Disclosure Scotland.
 

PACE Youth Theatre workshops are all based on our unique syllabus devised to increase confidence, self-expression, communication and perforamce skills. There are also great fun and a great way to meet new friends. Workshops are at the core of PACE Youth Theatre and a lot of time and effort is spent ensuring our workshops are fun, educational, well targeted and of the highest standard.

You can find out more about the content and structure of workshops in our Membership & Workshop Information section.

Although PACE is a workshop based youth theatre members often have the opportunity to participate in shows, be they large scale, devised or scripted. Members get advanced notice and discounts on our Fest! Performing Arts Festivals events and performances. PACE mount over 70 Fest! performances every year during the school holidays, giving everyone lots of opportunites to get on stage! These day and week long activities concentrate on drama, dance and music for both members and non-members and are always extremely popular. You can find out more about our Fest! school holidays performance events here. You can also click here to view some photos of recent performances. 
 

PACE Youth Theatre members are in constant demand from TV and film produstion companies. both nationally and internationally. PACE Casting was set up to represent our members to interested coompanies and provide a comprehensive chaperoning and licensing service. All this is provided to our members for no additional chargeor agency fee. PACE members have appeared in hundreds of films, comercials and TV productions over the years both in the UK and abroad. Established members also have the opportunity to appear in the Young Person's Casting Directory, the largest directory of young actors in Scotland, distributed annually to hundreds of production companies.
 

PACE has worked with tens of thousands of young people, who have used the key skills they have learnt form PACE in all walks of life. Many of these have gone on to wor in all aspects of the perfoming arts. Well-known former members include actor James McAvoy, singers Paulo Nutini and David Sneddon, 'River City' star Gorden McCorkell, TV presenter Kate Heavenor, actress Shauna McDonald (Spooks, The Descent), Laura Marks (El Presidente) and many others. Find out more in our Former Members section.
 

PACE is a self-sufficient, non-profit making company and registered charity so all of our membership charges go towards improving the quality of service we provide to young people.

Membership of PACE Youth Theatre can be paid in three different ways - monthly, annually or every term (there are three terms in the youth theatre year) with discounts available for families with more than one member. Full details can be found here.

We belive that all new members should be sure that they are enjoying their workshops before committing to the full term, so new members do not need to make payment for the term until after their first two sessions. Members joining mid-term will have their first term payment adjusted accordingly.