Diana Brown
Improv Utopia Yosemite 2025 Saturday Workshop
Diana Brown presents
Introduction to Character Creation Through Laban Technique
Workshop
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.
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. Diana was named one of The Improv Boosts Sudden Impact Teachers of 2025.
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 leads the improvised Shakespeare program at All Out Comedy. Is a guest teaching artist with BATS in San Francisco, and is a teaching artist with Greater Than The Sum.
Diana was an instructor for the 2025 Rise Comedy Summer Improv Intensive presenting Exploring Genre. She’s presented Improv workshops, intensives and “workshop to show” experiences at the Camp Improv Utopia West, Improv Fest Ireland, Belfast Improv Fest, SAVI FEST, The Unscripted Shakespeare Festival in NYC, Queen City Comedy Experience, Uptown Improv Festival, Vancouver Improv Festival, Tucson Comedy Arts Festival, Ocean State Improv Festival, Gather Spring Improv Retreat, Cornerstone Improv, Countdown Improv Festival and others.
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, Slumber Party, the duos Salt and Pepper, Davenport & Brown, and the Twilight Zone inspired ensemble But of Mind.
She has enjoyed sold out appearances at San Francisco Sketch Fest 2025, 2024, 2023, She’s appeared at Impro Amsterdam, Rise Comedy Fest, Improv Fest Ireland, Vancouver Improv Fest, Liverpool Improv Fest, Bay Area Musical Improv Fest. SAVI Fest, Uptown Improv Fest 2024, Ocean State Improv Fest, Tucson Comedy Arts Fest, Countdown Improv Fest, The Queen City Comedy Experience, San Francisco Improv Fest, Improvaganza Hawaii Festival of Improv, San Diego Improv Fest, New York Improv Festival, Alaska State Improv Fest, and others. Diana also performs in scripted theater productions, appearing in festivals in New York, Washington, D.C. and San Francisco. Most recently in Playground’s Solo Fest 2025.
