Comedy Acting with Darren Gilshenan

Details

  • 25 August 2020
    12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Online
Applications Open 20 August 2020 10:00 am
Applications Close 25 August 2020 12:00 am
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Synopsis

This is no clown show! Its serious business. Comedy acting is intuitive for some but for others its a complex game. This live stream will demystify the mechanics behind comedy and give you practical tools and principals to apply to material,  whether you are acting it or writing it. Ideas around contrast, tension, illogical transition, extension, character types, timing, rhythm and build will be discussed. these tools can then be used to “Trick it up” and make it funnier.  

Host(s)

  • Darren Gilshenan

    Darren graduated from NIDA in 1988. Select theatre credits include Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Ensemble Theatre); Strictly Ballroom directed by Baz Luhrmann; Mother and Son national tour (Mother and Son Live P/L); Tartuffe (Black Swan Theatre Company); Elling, Don Parties On (MTC); Machu Picchu, Fool’s Island, Loot and Our Town (STC). Recent television Credits include Harrow co-starring Ioan Gruffudd, Here Come the Habibs 1&2, The Moodys 1&2, Rake 3, Janet King and Top of the Lake. Film credits include A Few Less Men, the AACTA nominated Women He’s Undressed and Save Your Legs. Darren received nominations at the 2017 Sydney Theatre Award for Best Actor in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and at the 7th AACTA Awards for Best Performance in No Activity. He also won a Best Actor Helpmann Award for The Servant of Two Masters, and Equity Ensemble Awards for The Moodys and A Moody Christmas as well as multiple Green Room, Sydney Critic and Glug Award nominations.  Darren most recently won an AACTA for best supporting actor in a tv series for Stateless.

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