Devised World Creation with Diana Brown

Devised World Creation with Diana Brown

Diana is bringing two workshops to LIF 2026. While each can be taken independently, we recommend booking both for a complete experience, as they are designed to complement and build upon one another.​

This workshop invites participants to engage in the imaginative and collaborative craft of building entire worlds from the ground up—worlds rich in texture, logic, and possibility. Through structured improvisation, ensemble devising, and character exploration, we will examine how the architecture of an invented world shapes the behaviors, relationships, and narratives that arise within it.

Participants will:
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• Investigate methods of world generation, considering how geography, social systems, and unspoken rules inform dramatic context.
• Populate these worlds with multidimensional, delightfully flawed characters, each driven by distinct desires, contradictions, and comic potential.
• Devise and interrogate the interconnected relationships and histories that bring the ensemble’s creation to life.

​By the workshop’s end, participants will have collaboratively forged a vibrant dramatic ecosystem—a living, breathing setting where humor and humanity collide. This work serves as a foundation for further devised theatre projects, ensemble creation, or long-form improvisational storytelling.

Participant Requirements: Please bring note taking materials, recording your devised world inspirations inspiration. Please bring your cellphone so that you can access a QR Code for class reference materials, thank you.

What previous participants' have said

“I found Diana Brown’s Introduction to Devised World Creation workshop really useful and fantastic, because so many workshops introduce you to ideas for improv, maybe get you up to play around a little bit. This one thinks of you as a creator who can put up your own show and helps you on that path. Which I think is enormously useful and helpful."
— Bob Fisher