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PRIVATE COACHING
I now offer one-on-one coaching for actors of all levels and from every background, and will craft your coaching session to meet your individual needs. As a performer and director with over 20 years of experience ranging from Shakespearean tragedy to stand-up comedy, I will work with you to develop practical, workable, and personalized techniques that deliver real results: helping you create nuanced, grounded, utterly unique performances which are fundamentally YOUR OWN. Together, we’ll ensure you break legs at auditions and at work – whether you’re performing in classical or contemporary pieces – be it on stage, TV, or film! And if creating original work is your goal, I’ve helped scores of actors hone their solo performance pieces and generate stand-up comedy sets virtually from scratch! Please check out my testimonials below – and contact me personally for rates and to ask any other questions you might have. I look forward to working together! |
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"Jason O’Connell is one my favorite actors on the planet. Watching him at work is a master class in the art of PLAY. He is incredibly rigorous, and at the same time, incredibly free and responsive to what is actually happening right now. For Jason, nothing is out of bounds, and he embraces the aspect of acting that comes directly from the actor's sense of joy, of surprise, of delight in the exchange with a scene partner and with the audience. The era of anguished, self-centered, pretentious acting is over. Jason’s approach reminds us why Shakespeare and his cohort identified as 'players,' because central to the art of acting is the willingness and ability to play."
- Davis McCallum (Artistic Director, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival; director, The Whale at Playwrights Horizons, Water by the Spoonful at Second Stage, February House at The Public) *** "I've worked with Jason as an actor many times and he is always present, open and playful. He has a remarkably creative mind and a genius sense of comedy. He worked with me recently on an audition and I booked the part! I can't recommend him highly enough!" - Samantha Steinmetz (CBS’s Blue Bloods, ABC’s Quantico, McCarter Theater and Hartford Stage’s Murder on the Orient Express) *** "Jason O'Connell has perfected his craft. Few actors have a greater passion for storytelling or a deeper understanding of the work than he does. His physical and vocal specificity is breathtaking, his comedic timing is unparalleled, and layered under all that is an emotional truth that turns every character he plays into a masterful work of art." - Vaishnavi Sharma (USA’s Mr. Robot, HBO’s The Leftovers, Bedlam Theatre’s The Seagull and Sense & Sensibility) *** "An actor of great depth and sensitivity, Jason has the ability to create a formidable interior emotional landscape for any character he undertakes. His keen insights forge even outwardly simple characters into arresting human beings we can all relate to. And his leadership, infectious humor and kindness in the rehearsal hall support an environment that all his fellow artists thrive in." - Kate Alexander (Associate Director, Florida Studio Theatre; Founder, FST Theatre School) *** "I first met Jason working on a summer Shakespeare gig. I used to call my friends, recently graduated from acting school, to be like, "You've gotta see this guy!" Jason has this way with text. He has this way of cutting through the barriers of actor to actor, or actor to audience and really talking to you. It is striking and skillful and beautiful. He is a wholly emotionally invested actor with a pitch perfect and daring sense of comedy. Plus he's the nicest guy in the room." - Jessica Frey (Netflix’s The Characters, Basic Witch webseries, Pipeline Theatre’s Clown Bar) |
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