Diana Lynn Brown

Actor Improv Artist Director

Diana will appear in Playground’s SOLO FEST 2025

PlayGround has announced the lineup for its eighth annual PlayGround Solo Performance Festival, a curation of the best in Bay Area solo performance, running January 24-February 9, 2025 (Fri-Sun), presented live at San Francisco’s Potrero Stage and simulcast online. The festival of new solo work features 18 double-bill performances by twelve California artists over three weeks, including Diana Brown, Ben Chau-Chiu, Elijah Jalil Paz Fisher, Safiya Fredericks, Jon Gentry, Steve Harper, Ric Iverson, Lucy London, Daniel Martinez Jr., Aaron Pang, Tansu Philip, and Miyoko Sakatani. This year’s festival was competitively selected from open applications, and is a direct extension of PlayGround’s mission and commitment to the discovery of bold new voices for the stage and the development of innovative and timely original content. Tickets are free with donations gratefully accepted.

Friday, February 7, 2025, 7pm
Diana Brown in VERTIGO-BUT NOT THE MOVIE by Susan L. Jackson
Tansu Phillip in MOST ACHIEVED PERSON

Tickets: HERE

Saturday, February 8, 2025, 7pm
Diana Brown in VERTIGO-BUT NOT THE MOVIE by Susan L. Jackson
Lucy London in GRASPING AT STRAWS

Tickets: HERE
Sunday, February 9, 2025, 4pm
Miyoko Sakatani in I WASN’T ALWAYS ASIAN
Diana Brown in VERTIGO-BUT NOT THE MOVIE by Susan L. Jackson

Tickets: HERE

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Diana on the Leela stage at the EXIT Theatre


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Diana has received awards and nominations for her acting including the Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award for Best Actress in a Solo Show and Broadway World Awards for Featured Actress in a play. She's been favorably reviewed by The Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, DC Metro Theatre Arts, The San Francisco Weekly, Arizona Daily Star and Time Out New York.

WHEN YOU ARE CALLED A new play by Susan Jackson & Diana Brown.

Can a Southern televangelist find connection in the Bay Area and still keep her faith in the words written in red?

Presented by Southern Railroad Theatre Company and 3Girls Theatre Company at the Marsh San Francisco.

Photo by Stacy MarshallFrom the play DEAD CERTAIN by Marcus Lloyd

Photo by Stacy Marshall

From the play DEAD CERTAIN by Marcus Lloyd

Characters comfortable in their own skin
— Roger Caitlin, Washington Post
Photo by Wesley CayabyabFrom the play DEATH BE NOT LOUD! by Susan Jackson

Photo by Wesley Cayabyab

From the play DEATH BE NOT LOUD! by Susan Jackson

Superb acting...
— Jim Strope, Examiner.com
Virtuosic acting, Diana Brown’s Elizabeth is perfectly timed, tuned and in sync.
— Clifton Lemon, SF Station
Diana Brown, as Red, provides what is arguably the best performance at the FRINGE OF MARIN.
— Jeffery R. Smith, For All Events
Photo by Kim Huynh

Photo by Kim Huynh

Diana Brown (plays Red) with a touching blend of humor and malice. The play is a sweet reflection on love and loss, featuring two gifted actors.
— Ravelle Brickman, DC Metro Theatre Arts
“Diana Brown is an IMPROV FORCE!
See her practice what she preaches.
This woman is THE BEST character improv actor in the SF Bay Area.”
— Jill Eickmann, Artistic Director, Leela, Improvisational Theatre Company & Training Center.