Instructor: Diana Brown
Saturday, October 19th - 2 pm-4:30 pm
Price: $45
Overview: A romantic romp through three key tropes of William Shakespeare's perspective on love. (The love triangle, forbidden love, and love unrequited, while exploring improvised Shakespeare.) Join Diana Brown for this workshop that requires no knowledge of Shakespeare, just the willingness to explore love in an eloquent way. We'll focus on love through the lens of the six levels of Elizabethan Social Classes: Monarchy, Nobility, Gentry, Merchants, Yeomen, and Laborers. These classes are determined by their fame, wealth, skills, and even birth.
This workshop will:
Help to demystify the world of Shakespeare.
Provide an opportunity to explore the slings and arrows of Elizabethan romance.
Help you find your inner Shakespearean character.
Lend understanding of the social and cultural and romantic traditions of the period.
Give you confidence to further explore the world of Shakespeare after the workshop.
"For thou art fascinating in ways most infinite!" -Diana Brown
Some improv stage experience appreciated though not required.
Diana Brown is an improv artist, teaching artist, actor, producer, director, and voiceover talent. At the San Francisco Improv Festival, she was voted the most valuable mentor and teacher.
She leads the improv program at Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s School of Theatre. Diana is also an instructor, producer, and member of the leadership team with Leela Improv Theatre in San Francisco.
She has had the privilege of leading Improv workshops and workshops to show experiences at SAVI Fest, O-Town Improv Fest, Improv Utopia's Camp West, the 2023 Queen City Comedy Experience, 2023 IMPRIDE San Diego, Salt Lake City DuoFest, Queen City Comedy, 2nd Best Comedy Fest, Improv MKE, New Orleans Improv Festival, Denver Improv Festival, in San Francisco, Tucson Comedy Arts Festival, and 2022 & 2023 Vintage Improv Festival (with Jane Morris, Jeff Michalski, Greg Tavares, Lisa Lynn).
Diana is half of the duo Bingewatch and the Tennesse Williams-inspired duo Fleeting Reminiscence. She plays in the improvised Shakespeare trio Gamesome Frolic, the trios POPTOP and The Witches, the duos Horrible People, DJ, Secret Lives of Villains, Salt and Pepper, and 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 Ireland Improv Festival, SAVI Fest, O-Town Improv Fest, Rise Comedy Fest, SF Sketchfest, The Queen City Comedy Experience, San Francisco Improv Fest, Improvaganza Hawaii Festival of Improv, San Diego 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.