As an actor, John Dawson trained with improv maestro Del Close while studying at North America’s famous Second City Theatre, the forerunner of ‘Saturday Night Live’ and its major casting pool.

For over 18 years, John has taught for theatre companies, drama schools, corporations and institutions in Ireland, Canada and the UK. These include The Actors Centre in London, Trinity College’s Samuel Beckett Centre, Dublin’s Gaiety School of Acting, the Galway Film Centre, the Granary Theatre in Cork and Toronto’s Equity Showcase Theatre.

At Dawsondramaworks, he teaches and collaborates with fellow facilitators to provide master-classes and workshops in improvisation, characterization, scene study, audition technique and on-camera acting.

John’s theatrical credits include co-writing and directing three plays devised through an improvisational process that were performed at Dublin’s Andrews Lane Theatre. In 2005 he co-wrote a production for the awarding winning Irish physical theatre company Articulate Anatomy, presented at the Project Arts Theatre. In the same year he directed ‘Bus Spotting’, a one man tour-de-force, presented at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival which received rave reviews.

In 2009, he produced a sold-out charity event; the ‘Comedy Craic Down’, a night of improv and sketch comedy held at Dublin’s Sugar Club in support of Oxfam Ireland and SafetyNet.

He is a produced playwright, screenwriter, and film director with numerous feature films projects in development.