Diana Brown (USA)
Diana is an improv artist, teaching artist, actor, producer, director and voiceover talent. Diana was named as one of The Improv Boost's 2025 Sudden Impact Teachers. She was voted Most Valuable Mentor and Teacher at the San Francisco Improv Festival.
Diana was invited to co-direct Mark Smith's Taxi Tales at Improv Amsterdam 2026 with the international ensemble.
Other teaching and directing credits include:
Instructor and ensemble director for Gather Fest 2025, and Gather Spring Retreat 2024, instructor for the 2025 Rise Comedy Summer Improv Intensive and the 2025 Rise Comedy Festival, Instructor for Camp Improv Utopia, Improv Fest Ireland and Belfast Improv Fest 2024, Vancouver Improv Fest 2024, Countdown Improv Festival, Queen City Comedy Experience, and others. She's directed the ensembles for 2025 Unscripted Shakespeare Festival, SAVI Fest 2025, Uptown Improv Fest 2024, Queen City Comedy Experience 2023 & 2024
Diana leads the improv performance lab program at Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s School of Theatre. She is an instructor, producer and a member of the leadership team with Leela Improv Theatre in San Francisco. She presents the improvised Shakespeare program at All Out Comedy Theatre, is a guest teacher with BATS (Bay Area Theatre Sports) and teaches with Greater Than The Sum, bringing improv classes to corporate campuses. Diana performs with tthe duos The Serious Business of Kicks, Bingewatch, Last Call and Fleeting Reminiscence, the trios Gamesome Frolic, Slumber Party, and POPTOP, the Twilight Zone inspired ensemble But of Mind...
She's appeared at Impro Amsterdam, at SF Sketchfest with The Groundlings: Personals directed by Brian Palermo at SF Sketchfest, enjoyed sold out appearances at SF Sketchfest with Bingewatch, performed in the 2025 Festival Ensemble at Liverpool Improv Festival in Mark Smith's Taxi Tales, appeared at Gather Fest, Improv Fest Ireland, Vancouver Improv Fest, Rise Comedy Festival, NYC Improv Fest, Vancouver Improv Fest, San Francisco Improv Fest, SAVI Fest, Northwest Improv Fest, Bay Area Musical Improv Fest, Countdown Improv Fest, 2026 & 2025 Playground Solo Festival, 2026 Playground Comedy Fest and others.
Diana's Teaching and Directing Philosophy: She enjoys helping improv artists find and amplify their unique gifts. She genuinely believes everyone is infinitely fascinating and endeavors to instill that belief in her students. Diana believes that the truth is the most compelling thing we can offer up on the stage and encourages her students to bring their truth to the characters they inhabit, whether they are naturalistic, fantastical or something in between.