Navigating Scenes (Gareth O’Connor) IMPROFEST WORKSHOP

Navigating Scenes – Avoid Getting Lost With Gareth O’Connor. How often do we find ourselves in scenes that have a strong start and get some big laughs up top only to find ourselves asking “What do we do now?”. Or scenes that are killing but we feel like we run out of steam and we’re dying for someone to sweep. Or even scenes that just never seem to get moving at all. In this workshop we will work on how to navigate scenes through beginning, middle and end. Starting strong from a place of discovery and not fearing silence. Making truthful moment to moment decisions about what your deal is and what’s going on in the scene. Using your environment to innovate from within the scene instead of creating from outside. Being the most committed actor you can be and making strong choices regardless of whether you’re the voice of reason or the unusual person.

Gareth O’Connor
(Irland)

Gareth is an actor, voice over artist, improviser and teacher at The Free Association. He has trained and performed for many years with The FA and Will Hines school, WGIS. Gareth can be seen performing with FA house show JACUZII, FA house Harold team NANA as well as Fabled: The Improvised Fantasy Adventure.
Some of his acting work includes a recurring role in Season 2 of Finding Joy for RTÉ One, playing Eamon in the original West End cast of Once and John in Dave Allen At Peace for the BBC as well as voicing Chester in Evil West.