Dan O’Connor is a multi-faceted actor, improviser, writer and director.  Dan is the founder and artistic director of the critically acclaimed Impro Theatre.  

His work with Impro Theatre includes Shakespeare UnScripted at the Old Globe in Hollywood, North Coast Rep, the Odyssey, the green show at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Dickens UnScripted at the Anteaus Theatre, Tennessee Williams UnScripted at Out Of Bounds West and the Livery Theatre in Ventura, Sondheim UnScripted at Theatre/Theater and Jane Austen UnScripted at the Broad Stage in Santa Monica. 

He performed in the Improbable Theatre’s production of Lifegame (Off-Broadway) and the SPIKE television series of the same name. 

Other Improv Credits include: The long running Wrought Irony at the Laugh Factory in Los Angeles, Pulp Playhouse at the HBO Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen and as a guest star with the Second City at the Murphy’s Cat Laughs Festival in Kilkenny Ireland, The Groundlings Cookin’ with Gas and Crazy Uncle Joe Show, OFF THE WALL at the Improv and the Danny O’Connor Christmas Show at the Comedy Central Stage.

Theatre credits include A Christmas Carol, Horatio, The Merry Wives of Windsor, and Peer Gynt at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, the world premiere of Making Noise Quietly (Directed by Dennis Erdman) at the Taper Too in Los Angeles, Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at A Noise Within (for which he won the Dramalogue Award for Best Actor), Ferdinand in The Tempest at Shakespeare Santa Cruz, and Joey in Harold Pinter’s The Homecoming at The New Conservatory in San Francisco.

He recently co-directed and starred in the smash hit Jane Austen UnScripted at the Broad Stage in Santa Monica

He has been a guest director and instructor for the Austin Comedy Festivals BS3 and 4 as well as Out of Bounds, The Yes And Festival in New York, The Lighten Up Theatre Fest  in Kansas City, the Calgary and Vancouver International Improvisation Festivals.

He has taught for the Writers Program at the UCLA extension. DUKE and Pepperdine Universities.  He was an adjunct professor for USC ‘s BFA program and has also taught in the MBA Program for the University of Texas McCoombs School of Business.

He has coached the Cirque du Soleil casts of Salitimbanco and Corteo, Zumanity, O and LOVE.

His training includes the American Conservatory Theater and extensive work with Keith Johnstone (Author of Impro) since 1986. He is a graduate of the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London.

SAG-AFTRA/DGA/AEA/WGA