THE IMPROVISED MOVIE with Brian James O'Connell

THE IMPROVISED MOVIE with Brian James O'Connell

Created by the legendary iOChicago improv team THE FAMILY under the direction of Del Close, The Improvised Movie long form structure is a fun, fast-paced stylized piece that will strengthen your understanding of story, plot, narrative structures & genre tropes through the creative use of applying cinematic language to the theatrical stage! Brian James O’Connell has a BFA in Film Editing from the world famous UNCSA School Of
Filmmaking (Jeff Nichols, David Gordon Green, Craig Zobel) and is a 3x feature film writer/director whose distributed films star some of the biggest names in entertainment such as Pedro Pascal and Matt Berry. Let BOC use his combined 50 years of filmmaking and improv experience to help you learn an artistically rewarding long form piece that is also a box office smash for your audiences!

Workshop begins at 2:30pm and will last approximately 3 hours.

Early Bird Price: $75 | Regular Price: $100

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Brian James O’Connell is a working actor, writer, director, filmmaker and teacher in Los Angeles. BOC (as his friends call him) is part of the improv powerhouse & comedy collective Dr. God, who delivered their first feature film project BLOODSUCKING BASTARDS in 2015, starring Pedro Pascal, which O’Connell directed as well as co-writing the script with Dr. God. Seasons 1 & 2 of Dr. God's new animated series HELL DEN is currently available on SYFY Channel where they serve as the Creator, Executive Producers, Producers, Directors and Writers. (He voices GIANTIC, a frost giant represented only as a large bare foot.) Brian travels the world teaching his expertise in The Deconstruction as part of his ALL IMPROV courses and as a founding board member of Camp Improv Utopia. A main stage performer, beloved bar manager, coach & teacher until the very end at iOWest (RIP), O’Connell is also proud to be a Co-Founder of The Pack Theater, LA Weekly’s BEST OF LA Pick for “Best Theater Company” two years in a row, a founding board member of Camp Improv Utopia and recently celebrated his one year anniversary joining the board of Baltimore’s Highwire Improv.