DIF Workshop: Playing Characters who Actually Like Each Other with Tim Orr, 26 October | Event in Walnut Creek

DIF Workshop: Playing Characters who Actually Like Each Other with Tim Orr

Diablo Improv Festival

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Sun, 26 Oct, 2025 at 11:30 am

2 hours

Lesher Center for the Arts

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Date & Location

Sun, 26 Oct, 2025 at 11:30 am to 01:30 pm (PDT)

Lesher Center for the Arts

1601 Civic Dr, Walnut Creek, California, United States

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DIF Workshop: Playing Characters who Actually Like Each Other with Tim Orr
The Diablo Improv Festival, October 24 - 26, at the Lesher Center for the Arts. Check out our entire weekend lineup of shows, workshops, and events at DiabloImprovFestival.org!

About this Workshop
Learn how to play people who get along with the other characters in the scene. Is there really a need for conflict and trouble between the characters in scenes? By getting along and liking each other, a whole new world of conflict-free detail opens up. This is a powerful and transformative approach that will change your improv, for good!

Experience Level
For intermediate and advanced level improvisers

About the Instructor
Tim has improvised since 1988 with many San Francisco-based groups, including BATS Improv, Rafe Chase’s groundbreaking longform troupe Improv Theatre, the renowned True Fiction Magazine, and with the acclaimed troupe 3 For All. In 2009, he founded a new improv group, the Improv Playhouse of San Francisco. He has appeared in numerous plays in the San Francisco Bay Area, and received critical acclaim for his leading roles in the improvised feature films, Suckerfish and Security. With Stephen Kearin, Tim co-wrote, and originated the role of Dirk Manly in, An Evening with Dirk & Blaine.

Tim has performed and taught improvisation at the American Conservatory Theatre, BATS Improv, Stanford University, and many other venues nationally (Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Austin, Louisville, Atlanta, etc.) and internationally (Amsterdam, Beirut, Belgium, Helsinki, London, Paris, Saudi Arabia, Stockholm, and Tel Aviv). He has served for many years as the Director of the BATS Improv Long-Form Intensive.


CHECK OUT OUR ENTIRE WEEKEND LINEUP OF SHOWS, WORKSHOPS, AND JAMS!

Prepare to be inspired, delighted, and entertained at the Diablo Improv Festival. Laugh while you learn at improv workshops designed for all ages and experience levels, meet new friends, cultivate creative collaborations, and enjoy unforgettable performances from top-notch improvisers who take the craft to the next level.


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DIF Workshop: Playing Characters who Actually Like Each Other with Tim Orr, 26 October | Event in Walnut Creek
DIF Workshop: Playing Characters who Actually Like Each Other with Tim Orr
Sun, 26 Oct, 2025 at 11:30 am