With AACTA award winner Darren Gilshenan

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0319696/

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Recognized with numerous awards, Darren Gilshenan is widely regarded as one of Australia’s most skilled and successful comedy actors.

For many years, Darren has specialised in deconstructing the elements of comedy acting, and has developed simple teaching processes using various tools and principles to help you to work confidently and successfully in comedy. Once understood, through practice, the learnt techniques become intuitive.

For some people comedy comes naturally, they have “funny bones”. For others, not so. Comedy is a skill that can be successfully taught and learnt!

 

Suitable for Beginners to comedy, this exciting 1-Day Masterclass will open your mind, and give you the confidence to find the funny in your work. It will explore and demystify the art of comedy acting, and will give you the practical tools and techniques to bring to your scene work, monologues, and rehearsal processes. And a huge amount of fun will be had along the way.

 

Laughter is all about creating Surprise. leading an audience down one path only to surprise them with a sudden change of direction.

 

The ideas we will workshop are around things like: Contrast, Illogical transition, Status, Extension, Straight/Funny man, Obsession and oblivion, Exaggeration, Tension, Dilemma and what makes a funny Character.

 

This may sound like a lot to process but this course will wet your pallet for a deeper understanding of the craft of Comedy and it will give you the tools to ‘trick’ up material for maximum funny!

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TUTOR: Darren Gilshenan

AGES: 18+

DATE: Saturday 17th January 2026

TIME: 10:00am – 4:00pm (with a lunch break)

LOCATION: Warehouse Workshop Screen Acting Studio, 3/9 Millennium Circuit, Helensvale QLD 4212

FEE: $220.00 (inc. GST)

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