workshops
I'm Darren 👋 Hello.
A Longford man, I'm a creator-performer making award-winning theatre for young audiences and facilitating Impro theatre as the playmaker behind Grand Stretch. This was never "the plan".
In 2014, fresh out of Trinity College Dublin with a BA in Drama & Theatre Studies, fierce notions, and no sense of direction, I took a risk and followed my now-husband Dave to Vancouver. Happening upon TheatreSports™ at The Improv Centre, I found a home away from home—training and performing with the team as their Education and Outreach Coordinator until 2016. But it's not that improv just became my life. It's more, I came to appreciate life through improv.
Rooted in Keith Johnstone’s Impro method and expanded through work with inspired teachers, my practice has been steadily shaped by my own interests, curiosities, and discoveries—informed by other disciplines, and distilled into the play-making philosophy I now facilitate in Spirit Guides and Making Senses.
"Leap and the net shall appear" — Robin Williams
Spirit Guides is a play-centred, game-oriented adventure in spontaneous theatre and improvisation. In six very special workshops, we'll allow ourselves to be carried away in the spirit of play.
Charting undiscovered playing fields of the mind, heart, body, and soul, we'll yield to instinct, impulse, and intuition, and run it into fearless play, with team spirit.
Our next Saturday Series. Monthly workshops, from April-September.
More information coming soon.
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