Improv Triage: A Treatment Lab For Your improv Challenges at the Pittsburgh Fringe Festival

Bingewatch’s Improv Triage: treatment lab for your improv challenges.

Diana Brown & Dan Wilson of Bingewatch will create/curate exercises on the
spot, addressing whatever is challenging the performer in the moment.
Helping you respond to your scene-partner in a visceral, truthful way. Deepening your trust in your own instincts.

Presented by Bingewatch Improv Workshop (San Francisco, California, USA)

Rating: PG-13
Genre: Events and Workshops
Premiere?: Not A Premiere

Show Creator(s): Workshop co-led by Diana Brown and Dan Wilson of Bingewatch

About the Performer(s):

About the instructors:
Diana Brown
Diana enjoys coaching by learning what’s challenging people in the moment and working from there to help them trust themselves and expand their scenic options.

Diana believes that everyone is infinitely fascinating and coaches people to work from that belief. Coming from a visceral place of listening to your instincts, to “Trust your hit”.

Diana was voted most valuable Mentor and Teacher 2018 at the San Francisco Improv Festival. She is an improv artist, actor and producer.

She performs as half of the nationally touring improv duo Bingewatch with Dan Wilson, now presenting Bingewatch and Friends as an online series. Bingewatch and Friends was recently nominated for a Young-Howze Theater Journal, Deja Vu Award for Recurring Streaming Series of the Year.

Diana has taught and or performed in person or virtually at Wasatch Improv Fest, Alaska State Improv Fest, San Francisco Sketch Fest, San Francisco Improv Fest, Tucson Comedy Arts Festival, Twin Cities Improv Fest, New Orleans Improv Festival, Denver Improv Fest, Improvaganza: Hawaii’s Festival of Improv, New York Improv Fest, San Diego Improv Fest, 2nd Best Comedy Fest in Richmond, VA, Louisville’s Damn Good Improv Fest, Femprovisor Fest, ExStreamed Improv in the U.K., Leela Theatre, The Pack Theatre, Moment Theater, Vintage Improv, Queen City Comedy, and others.

She’s created and presented custom improv workshops and programs for Airbnb, Whole Foods, US Coast Guard, Big Bus Tours and others.

Diana directs the independent improv ensemble The Professionals, the Leela performing improv ensemble On the Verge, and directs the indie improv troupes Peach Pit and Timeless. She collaborates with medical professionals to improve communication between providers and patients. And provides 1:1 performance coaching to artists and business leaders.

Diana is a member of Leela Improv Theatre Company’s leadership team, serving as Director of Community/Senior Producer and teaches levels I and III with Leela. Diana has served as an associate producer for Femprovisor Fest.
She’s also a Teaching Artist with Laguna Playhouse.

Diana also appears with the duo Horrible People with Erin Daruszka. She performs with the improv trios Past Our Prime Time Players with Chris DeJong and Dan Wilson, Irrational Fears with Jill Eickmann & Steven J. Burnett. And Badass Effervescent Dames with Betse Green and Erin Daruszka. She’s a member of Queen City Comedy’s global improv team ridgeley, and Combined Artform’s Tilted Frame @Home. Tilted Frame Improv is also nominated for a Young-Howze Theater Journal, Deja Vu Award for Recurring Streaming Series of the Year. Diana is a founding member of the long running improvised play podcast Radiostar Improv.

Diana also performs in scripted theater productions appearing in festivals in New York, Washington, D.C. and San Francisco. She’s co-producer of the Southern Railroad Theatre Company. Diana was a global finalist in the world premiere of Susan Jackson’s play
SKYPING GOD in the 2021 Good The@tre Festival and Awards.

Dan Wilson
Dan is a playwright, director, and actor who has been performing improv since the early aughts. He served as a board member of the San Francisco Improv Cooperative and helped found the SF Improv Festival. Dan served as both producer and performer of the long running improvised play podcast Radiostar Improv. He also appears as with the improv trio Past Our Prime Time Players. He has taught levels courses, “Improv Sunday School”, and drop-in classes with Moment Improv in San Francisco. Dan performs all over the country and now online as half of the improv duo Bingewatch. Bingewatch’s series Bingewatch and Friends was recently nominated for a Young-Howze Theater Journal, Deja Vu Award for Recurring Streaming Series of the Year.

Dan has taught and or performed in person or virtually at Wasatch Improv Fest, Alaska State Improv Fest, San Francisco Sketch Fest, San Francisco Improv Fest, Tucson Comedy Arts Festival, Twin Cities Improv Fest, New Orleans Improv Festival, Denver Improv Fest, New York Improv Fest, San Diego Improv Fest, 2nd Best Comedy Fest in Richmond, VA, ExStreamed Improv in the U.K., Vintage Improv and others.

Streaming Type: Live

Platform: Zoom

Social Media
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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bingewatchimprov/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/bingewatchimpro

Other Links: http://www.bingewatchimprov.com/improv-triage

Fringes performed at:

San Francisco Fringe,
Capital Fringe in D.C.

Check out what others are saying:

“Diana is a true gift to her students!”
– Jill Eickmann, Artistic Director, Leela Improvisational Theatre Company

“Dan is a treasure trove of information.”
-Marcus Sams, Artistic Director, Moment Theatre

“There are a lot of great workshops on Zoom right now, but this one truly stands out. Diana is such a warm presence with obvious talent and a depth of knowledge that she uses to craft a truly bespoke experience for participants based on their individual needs. Her exercises build on key points and a structured in way that ensure these takeaways resonate organically. I could not recommend this workshop more enthusiastically.”
— Kristen Drenning, Improv Triage Participant, 2020 Tucson Comedy Arts Festival – Online

“The Improv Triage workshop with Diana Brown was a great opportunity to get some help with some of my improv issues. Diana was very caring in the way that she approached what each student in the class wanted to improve. We got a fully customized workshop with invaluable feedback from an experienced improvisor and a wonderful human being. I appreciate the positive approach to all of the exercises and the notes given. Thank you, Diana. Helping us trust ourselves and to trust the improvisors around us in scenes is such a gift!”
-Susan Leonetti, Improv Triage Workshop Participant at Queen City Comedy, Global Improv Project Workshop- Online

“Long-form improv is the “boss mode” of improv, Bingewatch and Friends are working on a deity level I haven’t seen before.
– Ricky and Dana Young-Howze, Young-Howze Theatre Journal