About Me

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About: I was born in San Antonio, TX to a couple of especially awesome parents. When I was a few months old, we moved to Houston. There I grew up, went to elementary middle and high school. When I was 15, I first picked up a video camera and decided to make a short video with one of my friends. That’s when I knew I would be going to film school.

I applied to a lot of different places, but when I got into UT, that’s when I knew where I was going. I came here in the fall of 2010, and soon after joined Gigglepants Improv. Then I really knew I had made the right decision. That group has been instrumental in maintaining my sanity throughout college, and improv has taught me a new way of living based on simply saying "Yes."

I sometimes have trouble describing myself, so I thought I’d go about some of the other stuff as if I were a video game character.

NAME: Reid O’Conor
LEVEL: 21
CLASS: Human Male
ORIGIN: March 11, 1992. Houston, TX. A very loving family.

STRENGTHS:
• Humor
• Writing
• Love of television
• Friendly
WEAKNESSES
• Easily distracted
• Love of television

Why I Ride

Growing up, I used to love watching TV shows and movies about doctors. I loved Scrubs and House, and I thought it was so cool that Richard Kimble from The Fugitive was a doctor. That’s when I decided that I wanted to be a doctor. I wanted to be able to help people like they did. However, three weeks into high school biology, I realized that perhaps I didn’t actually want to be a doctor, I just really liked TV and movies.

So I came up with a new goal, to make TV shows and movies like the ones that I liked so much. I could help people in a different way, through storytelling - a way that didn’t involve so much difficult science.

My grandmother, Gail Morris, was diagnosed with lung cancer during my first fall semester at UT , and she passed away during my first spring semester. Grammy was an amazing and very opinionated woman. She had a lot of opinions that I didn’t agree with, but she was also a gifted storyteller. She told the stories of her friends and neighbors to me and my family, she told the stories behind her opinions, and she told the stories of me and my family to her friends and neighbors. She impacted the lives of many people with her stories, and in that way she was an inspiration to me.

I hope to be able to tell her story, and to be able to hear and tell the stories of many others similarly affected by cancer.