Reno Improv teachers and coaches come from a variety of places, backgrounds, and professional fields, but they all share a love of teaching improv and a passion for helping their students to succeed. Each member of our teaching team is dedicated to using their years of improv experience to create a fun, welcoming, and engaging learning environment for all of our students.
Teachers and coaches
Aurora Boles
Aurora Boles (she/her) has been a performer and teacher at Reno Improv since the theater’s founding in 2015. She fell in love with improv in 2011 at her very first drop-in class and she helped found Reno Improv. She completed her early improv training with Empire Improv (now located in Bakersfield, CA), and has taken workshops from Colleen Doyle, Jason Shotts, Rachel Hamilton, David Razowsky, Betsaida LeBron, Mike Brown, Laura Hall, Chad Damiani, Made Up Theatre and Bird City Improv. Aurora has taught at Reno Improv since the theater’s founding and plays on Reno Improv’s Living Room performing team, Sensitive People. She previously served on Reno Improv’s Board and led the theater’s marketing and communications efforts. Aurora loves the wonderful sense of community and the endless moments of human connection that improv offers. She enjoys watching students learn to collaborate with one another artistically in real time as they discover their own comedic and dramatic voice.
Tim Mahoney
Bio coming soon.
Diana Martin
Diana Martin (she/her), a local math teacher, discovered Reno Improv in 2015 and currently serves as the Board Chair. After completing the Reno Improv training program, Diana performed on stage regularly for two years, and in 2018 began leading the weekly drop-in class, The Playground. Since then, she has applied her education background to work on various training projects, including corporate training, educator training, and coaching performance teams. Diana enjoys both the unfettered imagination of improv, as well as the practical value of becoming comfortable with the unexpected in everyday situations. Sharing this with others through teaching is her mission at Reno Improv.