Special Class with Dan O’Connor: Your Character is your friend (SOLD OUT)

  • Sunday, June 2
  • 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
  • Cost $45.00 (MUST PAY IN ADVANCE TO HOLD A SPOT)

Your Character is your friend: How to instantly create great characters and relationships

How does a well defined character spontaneously emerge and serve the scene? How do characters connect to create relationships and build compelling stories? How do you make detailed relevant choices instead of vague ones? How do you remain present and positive and have fun discovering the story?

REGISTER:

We want you to have some improv fun, so click here to get on the waiting list.

Instructor:

Instructor: Dan O’Connor 

Dan has been performing, directing, producing, and teaching improvisation professionally since 1986. He has performed thousands of shows with LA Theatresports and Impro Theatre. Dan performed in the Improbable Theatre’s production of Keith Johnstone’s Lifegame (off-Broadway) and the Spike television series of the same name.  

Other improv credits include: the long-running Wrought Irony at the Laugh Factory in Los Angeles, Pulp Playhouse at the HBO Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, and as a guest star with The Second City at the Murphy’s Cat Laughs Festival in Kilkenny, Ireland, Theatre 99 in Charleston, New York New York in Las Vegas, The Groundlings Cookin’ with Gas and Crazy Uncle Joe Show, Unexpected Productions in Seattle, OFF THE WALL at the Improv and the Danny O’Connor Christmas Show at the Comedy Central Stage.

He has taught and directed at the Yes And Festival in New York, The Lighten Up Theatre Fest in Kansas City, the Calgary and Vancouver International Improvisation Festivals, the MOMENT! Festival in Vienna, TORN in Hamburg, the Charleston Comedy Festival, the Big Stinkin’ Improv Festival and the Out of Bounds festival both in Austin, and the ITI Conferences MITICO in Milan, the Dubai Fringe, and Improv Ecology in Vancouver.

Dan has co-authored two books with Jeff Katzman about using improvisation to lead a more happy and engaged life both published by North Atlantic Books and distributed by Penguin Random House

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/670605/ensemble-by-jeff-katzman-md/9781623176297/

Life UnScripted-Using Improv Principles to Get Unstuck, Boost Confidence, and Transform Your Life
Ensemble! Using the Power of Improv To Forge Connections in a Lonely World