John Connors one of the stars of Love/Hate, started the classes to help actors’ personal development

A star of the crime drama Love/Hate who claimed that his film career had suffered because he is a Traveller is to run a series of acting masterclasses (Jennifer O’Brien writes).

John Connors, 28, who won best actor at this year’s Iftas for his role in the film Cardboard Gangsters, will run the acting and personal development classes with Tiernan Williams, a psychologist.

Having recently founded Cluster Fox Films, a film production company, Connors will lead two days of classes in Dublin with groups of 12 acting hopefuls. He said they would be “challenged and rewarded with a better understanding of you as a person, in the context of the characters you develop”.

Each participant will write scripts and receive a showreel of their work.