Acting Tools for Creating Engaging Fictional Characters

Fiction writers are actors. Not before the camera, but on the page. A writer must create and develop each important character in the story and bring them to life in such a way to engage the reader. The writer must get into the character’s head and “become” them. In this 90-minute interactive session, actress/director/producer Renee O’Connor will offer acting techniques that writers can use to elevate their characters and make them memorable.

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Reneé O’Connor, a successful actress and filmmaker, is best known for playing the role of Gabrielle, Xena’s trusted sidekick on the popular series Xena: Warrior Princess from 1996-2001. In 2002, she then moved on to launch her own film production company, ROC Productions. Renee finished production on her second feature film, Watch The Sky, a Science Fiction Family film, available in all digital platforms, world wide, through Breaking Glass Pictures.

Prior to her breakout role, Reneé lived in Texas and began her professional film career at the age of 17, starring in the serial Teen Angel, a regular feature on the Disney Channel’s The Mickey Mouse Club. Other credits include the Disney film, The Adventures of Huck Finn, with Elijah Wood, and television movies such as Follow the River, with Ellen Burstyn, Danielle Steele’s Changes, as the daughter of Cheryl Ladd, co-starring in the second Rockford Files reunion movie, with James Garner, and co-starring in Hercules and the Lost Kingdom, with Anthony Quinn and Kevin Sorbo.

 She also starred in several independent films, including Ghost House Pictures’ Boogeyman 2, opposite Tobin Bell; The ScyFy Channel’s Monster Ark, opposite Tim DeKay, and Alien Apocalypse, opposite Bruce Campbell. She starred in the action web series ARK, from Judah/Sacks (Executive Producers of 90210 and Diary of a Wimpy Kid).

In October of 2019, Renee started the House of Bards Theatre Company, producing intimate and immersive theater in Los Angeles, California. 

From 2022 onwards, Renee served as Producer and Director for The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, George Orwell's 1984, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, gaining recognition by earning seven Broadway World Regional Theatre awards for the 2022 - 2023 season, including FAVORITE LOCAL THEATER, BEST THEATRE FOR YOUNG AUDIENCES, BEST LIGHTING DESIGN (A Midsummer Night's Dream), BEST COSTUME DESIGN (A Midsummer Night's Dream), BEST PLAY (1984), BEST NEW PLAY (1984) BEST SOUND DESIGN (1984)