SATURDAY OCTOBER 12TH 1PM-5PM - $80

Rogues, Ruffians and Wiley Wits: Improvising Bawdy Characters in the Style of Shakespeare
with Diana Brown

*Please note this is an Intensive/Workshop -to-Show Experience: culminating with a festival performance on Saturday 10/12 at 10PM.

Join Diana Brown for this workshop that requires no knowledge of Shakespeare, just the willingness to explore the bawdier side of Elizabethan life.
A ribald romp inspired by the bawdy, and in truth, a bit naughty side of Shakespeare.
We’ll adventure to the pubs and inns and alleyways populated with scurrilous rogues and ladies lively, quick.
Delightful characters, deliciously flawed with aspirations of greatness.
And we’ll explore the way Shakespeare used rhythm and rhyme, metaphor and imagery to tempting effect.

All experience levels are welcome.

ABOUT DIANA BROWN

Diana Brown is an improv artist, teaching artist, actor, producer, director and voiceover talent. She was voted Most Valuable Mentor and Teacher at the San Francisco Improv Festival. She leads the improv program at Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s School of Theatre. Diana is an instructor, producer and a member of the leadership team with Leela Improv Theatre in San Francisco. Diana serves as the director for the ensemble The Professionals, and the duo Foolhardy.

She’s presented Improv workshops, intensives and “workshop to show” experiences at 2024 Ocean State Improv Festival, SAVI Fest, 2024 Gather Spring Improv Retreat, Cornerstone Improv, O-Town Improv festival, Countdown Improv Festival, Camp Improv Utopia, Queen City Comedy Experience, IMPRIDE, Unscrewed Theatre, 2nd Best Comedy Fest, Denver Improv Festival, Tucson Comedy Arts Festival, and independently in San Francisco, CA.

Diana is half of the duo Bingewatch, she plays in the Shakespeare inspired trio Gamesome Frolic, the Tennessee Williams inspired duo Fleeting Reminiscence, the trios POPTOP,The Witches, the duos Horrible People, DJ, Secret Lives of Villains, Salt and Pepper,Davenport & Brown,Twilight Zone inspired ensemble But of Mind.

Diana is a guest artist with BATS Improv in San Francisco and a member of the acting pool with the San Francisco sketch comedy company Killing My Lobster. She has appeared at Ireland Improv Festival, Gather Spring Improv Retreat, Rise Comedy Fest, SF Sketchfest, The Queen City Comedy Experience, San Francisco Improv Fest, Improvaganza Hawaii Festival of Improv, San Diego Improv Fest, O-Town Improv Fest, Wasatch Improv Fest, New York Improv Festival. Vintage Improv Fest, 2nd Best Comedy Fest, New Orleans Improv Fest, Twin Cities Improv Fest, Alaska State Improv Fest, Tucson Comedy Arts Fest and others. Diana also performs in scripted theater productions, appearing in festivals in New York, Washington, D.C. and San Francisco.