COMEDY MASTERY WITH DARREN GILSHENAN

Acting Mastery is proud to host highly—acclaimed AACTA award winner, Darren Gilshenan for his 2 day Comedy Workshop!

After graduating from NIDA in 1988, Darren began his career in musical theatre before spending 10 years with The Bell Shakespeare Company. Sketch comedy followed with three years on Full Frontal, followed by roles in high-profile Australian TV series.

Darren is currently in production for the Freemantle Media / Disney + production of Nautilus which is an iconic, epic action-adventure story based on the works of Jules Verne. Set to be released in 2023. He is also shooting on the production of Lingo Pictures Series Upright S2 directed by Mirrah Foulkes. In addition, Darren will also feature in Upcoming Easy Tiger Productions’ Colin From Accounts.

Recent selected television credits include: Matchbox Pictures’ Joe vs. Carol for NBC, Cordell Jigsaw Productions’ Darby and Joan, Troppo for Playmaker/EQ Media/Beyond, How To Stay Married for Network Ten, Stateless, Harrow for ABC TV, Here Come the Habibs, Jungle Entertainment’s No Activity, Matchbox Pictures’ Maximum Choppage, The Killing Field for Seven Network, The Moodys, Devil’s Playground directed by Tony Krawitz and Rachel Ward, Rake and Janet King for ABC TV, Top of the Lake, which was co-directed Jane Campion, Garth Davis and Ariel Kleiman, A Moody Christmas, and The Outlaw Michael Howe, a television film directed by Brendan Cowell.

Darren has also appeared in films such as Dancing Road Productions’ Carnifex , Arclight Films’ A Few Less Men, directed by Mark Lamprell, the AACTA nominated Women He’s Undressed, directed by Gillian Armstrong, and Another Man’s Box feature Save Your Legs, directed by Boyd Hicklin.

Select theatre credits include Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Ensemble Theatre); Strictly Ballroom directed by Baz Luhrmann, Mother and Son national tour, Tartuffe (Black Swan Theatre Company); Elling, Don Parties On (MTC); Machu Picchu, Fool’s Island, Loot and Our Town (STC).

Darren was the 2020 AACTA Award recipient of Best Supporting Actor in a Television Drama for Stateless. He also received nominations at the 2017 Sydney Theatre Awards for Best Actor in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? & at the 7th AACTA Awards for Best Performance in No Activity

He has won a Best Actor Helpmann Award for The Servant of Two Masters, received Equity Ensemble Awards for The Moodys and A Moody Christmas, been nominated for a Golden Nymph Award at the Monte Carlo Television Festival for Best Actor for Here Come The Habibs, and also received multiple Green Room, Sydney Critic and Glug Award nominations.