Workshop Details

Workshop Date: Saturday, August 2, 2025 @ 11:00 AM - 1:45 PM MT
Location: RISE Comedy, 1260 22nd St, Denver, CO 80205
Instructor(s): Diana Brown
Price: $80/person

Special Notes:

Students will receive an email with class details and links 12-24 hours before the class. If you do not see this email, please check your spam folder as well!

Minimum class size is 8 students.

Introduction to Character Creation Through Laban Technique with Diana Brown

Join Diana for this introduction to Character through Laban Technique. With the application of this technique, we’ll learn to quickly find the physical, emotional and psychological center of characters.

Laban movement was originally used in dance choreography and for dancers. Later it began to be used by actors to help them improve their performances.

Now, applying it to improv, Laban movement can help improv artists to:

Develop their physical expressiveness
Understand and support internal impulses
Identify and play characters who are different from themselves
Enhance understanding the more subtle characteristics about movement with respect to our character’s inner intention.

All experience levels are welcome.

Instructor: 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.

She’s presented Improv workshops, intensives and “workshop to show” experiences at the Improv Fest Ireland 2024, 2024 Queen City Comedy Experience. 2024 Uptown Improv Festival, 2024 Vancouver Improv Festival, the 2024 Tucson Comedy Arts Festival, 2024 Ocean State Improv Festival, inaugural SAVI Fest, 2024 Gather Spring Improv Retreat, Cornerstone Improv, O-Town Improv festival, Countdown Improv Festival, Camp Improv Utopia West, 2023 Queen City Comedy Experience, IMPRIDE, Unscrewed Theatre, 2nd Best Comedy Fest, Denver Improv Festival, Unscrewed Theater in Tucson, AZ, All Out Comedy Theater in Oakland, CA, Sealevel, San Francisco, CA, Phoenix Theater, 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, and the 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 the Vancouver Improv Festival, Uptown Improv Festival, Improv Fest Ireland, 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, 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 including Playground Solo Fest 2025 and at theaters and theatre festivals around the country.