Learn. Laugh. Leap Out of Your Comfort Zone.
Have you ever watched an improv show or a scene from Whose Line Is It Anyway? and thought,
"How do they think so fast? I could never do that!"
Well… yes, you can!
Award-winning Canadian improvisers Diana Frances and Karen Parker are here to prove it.
Workshop Dates
Dates & Time: Saturday November 29th & Sunday November 30th 2025 - 12-5pm
Cost per student: 850 pesos
Location: Art Vallarta Theatre, Pilitas 213, Zona Romantica
To register, email: leaveittocleavage@gmail.com
Student Showcase
Dates & Time: Student Showcase: Sunday November 30th: 7pm
Cost for audience: 300 pesos
Location: Art Vallarta Theatre, Pilitas 213, Zona Romantica
What You’ll Learn
In this 2-day weekend workshop, you will learn:
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How to ‘YES AND’ ideas (and why that’s better than NO or YES BUT)
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How to be a more active and engaged listener
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How to be in the moment
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How to step out of your comfort zone
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How to support and engage your scene partner
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How to take someone’s idea and build on it to create a story
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How to create characters on the spot
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How to justify any idea thrown at you and make it make sense
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How to tackle performance anxiety
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How to play a variety of basic improv games
The student showcase will give students an opportunity to put the skills they just learned on display in front of a live audience of their friends, family and community members. The students will be guided and directed by Diana and Karen, who will ensure everyone shines and has a fabulous experience.
LEAVE IT TO CLEAVAGE is an improvised comedy show hosted by perky 50s housewives (full of martinis and Valium) who aim to put the ‘good’ back in the ‘good old days.’
Audience participation is the main ingredient in this delicious comedy cocktail. The gals get to know the audience by going table-to-table giving out ‘Welcome Wagon’ treats.
Suggestions from the audience help them re-write their 'Helpful Housewife Tips.' The gals re-create a 'Day in the Life' of a woman in the audience who has both a family and (CLUTCH PEARLS) a job!
NO TWO SHOWS ARE EVER THE SAME
AND THE AUDIENCE COMES BACK AGAIN AND AGAIN!
LEAVE IT TO CLEAVAGE was originally conceived by award-winning comedians DIANA FRANCES & ELLIE HARVIE.
Inspired by a bonkers article they found in a 1950's edition of Good Housekeeping Magazine called, 'The Rules of Being a Good Housewife,' their feminist rage quickly recognized that these 'tips' needed a good solid roasting for 45 minutes, with a salty pinch of audience participation.
Premiering at the Burnaby Shadbolt Centre's 'Outrageous Women's Cabaret,' the show was an instant hit. Additional cast members were added, the show expanded and toured around Canada. Diana Frances, Karen Parker & Christine Lippa are the current cast.
LEAVE IT TO CLEAVAGE WAS NOMINATED FOR A CANADIAN COMEDY AWARD FOR 'BEST IMPROV GROUP'
What People Are Saying
DIANA FRANCES
PERFORMER & PRODUCER
Diana is a Canadian Screen Award winning writer for her work on ‘Corner Gas: Animated’, for which she was also nominated for a Writer’s Guild of Canada Award.
As an improviser, Diana has been nominated for 8 Canadian Comedy Awards and has entertained our Canadian soldiers in Bosnia, Egypt, Israel and Afghanistan.
Diana has toured the world with Second City Theatricals, Girls Nite Out, Rock Paper Scissors and she is an alumni of The Vancouver TheatreSports League.
Diana is a really good parallel parker.
CHRISTINE LIPPA
PERFORMER
Christine is an actor, stand up, improvisor and writer with over 30 years experience.
She has performed stand up comedy and improv in concert halls and dive bars across Canada, including Montreal’s Just For Laughs.
This summer Lippa put on a toque and parka during the heat dome to play the “Canadian Sounding Mayor” on Ana Gasteyer and Rachel Dratch’s feature, A Clusterfünke Christmas.”
Christine currently has 3 dead budgies in her freezer.
KAREN PARKER
PERFORMER
Karen is a Canadian Comedy Award winning actor and an alumna of the Second City Toronto MainStage.
Karen has performed with theatre companies across Canada including the recent run of ‘She The People’ with Mirvish Productions.
She tours with her comedy troupes The Lusty Mannequins and Girls Night Out. She can be seen in the TV shows ’What We Do In The Shadows,’ ‘Tallboyz,’ ‘Mrs. America,’ ‘Baroness Von Sketch Show’ and more.
Karen really loves her cat, Steven.
