The Dramatic Improv Festival
Thursday-Sunday, July 10-13, 2025
at City Lit Theatre (1020 W Bryn Mawr Ave)
4 DAYS • 20 SHOWS • 18 WORKSHOPS • 100+ PERFORMERS • 1 Insta-team
The Dramatic Improv Festival (DIF) is dedicated to bringing the best of dramatic and narrative improvisation together for a long weekend of connection, education, and performance. This is a unique event, an entire festival dedicated to bringing together the best dramatic improvisors in the world to cross-pollinate, perform, learn, and network. There will be numerous performances, several workshops, and an insta-team!
Now accepting instructor submissions!
We are currently seeking instructors for DIF 2025 workshops and we’d love to hear from you!
We are seeking instructors who have a background in improvisation and theatre, and who have some element of their curriculum that overlaps with Dramatic Improvisation.
WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
Well, it all depends on you. Pitch us your workshop! As much detail as possible is always good, so we can make informed decisions about our instructors. We’re well aware that there are numerous approaches to dramatic improv, and we want to populate our workshops with a variety of instructors.
DRAMATIC, EH? SO NO COMEDY CLASSES?
Since this is a dramatic improv festival, our aim is to broaden the horizons of the dramatic improvisor student. So, while classes can certainly have comedic scenes and lessons that can span across all genres, we’re not looking for anything specifically aimed at “comedy”, per se. If you have questions or need clarification on anything, just drop us a line!
STIPEND
We offer a 70/30 split (instructor/festival) of all income for your class. Instructors will receive a festival pass, good for all performances. They will get a 70/30 split (instructor/festival) of their workshop fee. You can set the price of your class, but $30-50 is the norm for a 3 hour class. If you are able to do so, you can teach more than one class, either on the same subject, or on multiple subjects. Please indicate this in your online form, below. Payment for each workshop will be forwarded to each instructor 2 weeks prior to the festival, with any new payouts paid the week prior to the festival and the week after the festival.
Class length/maximums
For each class, we would like to keep the number of students to a maximum of 15. You may set your class minimum, . Each class will be 2 or 3 hours long, so we can put in as many wonderful classes as possible.
Class schedules
We will have classes running Saturday and Sunday at the time slots listed below.
Saturday: 9 AM-12 PM, 1-3 PM, 3:30-5:30 PM
Sunday: 9 AM-12 PM, 1 -4 PM
Class scholarships
We are trying to make class as inexpensive as possible for everyone, so we are requiring that every class have 2 “scholarship slots” for students in need, as selected by the festival. These two slots will come out of the 15 students, so the number of paid students will max out at 13.
We’ll be taking submissions through January 30th and will make final decisions by February 15th, and will get back to all submitters by then.
And that’s it! If you have any questions whatsoever, please feel free to drop us a line, and we’ll get back to you right away!
Now accepting performance submissions!
We are now accepting submissions for performances at DIF 2025, and we want you!
We’ll be accepting submissions through February 28th. We will send out acceptance emails for performances by March 15th.
Application Fee: FREE
All performers will get discounts on workshops and a pass to all shows!
If you have any questions whatsoever, please feel free to drop us a line, and we’ll get back to you right away!
Questions? Email us at dif@theatremomentum.com