Dan O'Connor

Where do you live and work? (City)

Los Angeles, California USA

Professional Skills

improviser
Actor
Director
Writer

What is your main interest in this network?

Networking, Finding Partnerships, Improv Resources

What kind of person are you?

Night

What kinds of improv-related services are you involved in?

Teambuilding, Creativity, Innovation, Problem Solving, Communcation, Leadership, Life Skills, Presentation Skills

Share a favorite 'improv epiphany'

Look for ways to be changed.

More about you: (Short Bio or any other details you'd like people to know)

Dan is an improviser, actor, writer and director. He has directed hybrid (outlined scripts and improvised dialog) television shows “Sons and Daughters” for ABC and “Campus Ladies” for the Oxygen Network.
Dan was the improv director and a writer for “The Wayne Brady Show” and produced and starred in David Steinberg’s improvised Warner Bros. pilot “the Phil Fuller Show”. He co-created a completely improvised television show for PAX/NBC with Kelsey Grammer “World Cup Comedy” which ran for two seasons.

Dan has been teaching and directing improv for 20 years. He has taught at USC, DUKE, Pepperdine and for the University of Texas MBA program. He has also directed numerous improv groups internationally. He has taught corporate workshops since 1989.
Training includes A.C.T and work with Keith Johnstone since 1986. He is a graduate of the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London and an Executive Board member of The International Theatresports Institute.
He is the Artistic Director of Impro Theatre (formerly LA Theatresports) He is a co-founder of both LATS and BATS.

Improv credits include Theatresports internationally, the long-running Wrought Irony at the Laugh Factory, Pulp Playhouse at the HBO Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen. He has also performed with Off The Wall, The Comedy Underground, ACME Unplugged and Second City at the Murphy’s Cat Laughs Comedy Festival in Ireland. He performs as a regular guest for the Groundlings “Crazy uncle Joe Show” and “Cookin’ with Gas”. For LATS he co-created and directed the critically acclaimed “Shakespeare UnScripted” and directed “The Hell Show” and “Triple Play”. He was in the ensemble of both the Off-Broadway production of Keith Johnstone’s “Lifegame” and the TNN television series of the same name.

I need help with...

Getting it done.

Work Website

http://improtheatre.com

Skype Name (Skype.com is the most popular free internet audio/text chat and more)

danoedi

Other contact info (Your choice for phone, email, facebook, myspace, etc.)

dan@danoconnor.net