Working Actor • Coach
Jim O’Connor — actor in Tokyo
American actor based in Tokyo. Trained in Meisner and the Method, and still working — so classes focus on what actually plays on stage and on camera.
Regional theatre → NYC soaps & film → TV host → Method training with Gary Swanson.
1:1 Actor Coaching
Audition prep, scene work, Method exercises.
Online or Tokyo in-person.
About Jim
Jim O’Connor is an American actor living in Tokyo. He received his BFA in Acting from the University of Rhode Island (’87), studying the Meisner Method, then worked in regional theatre under Tony Award–winning director Adrian Hall before moving to New York, where he worked in daytime soap operas, feature films and national commercials.
He continued training with Gary Swanson, a first-generation pupil of Lee Strasberg and lifetime member of The Actor’s Studio — that’s the root of the work Jim teaches today.