About the Show

The legendary show is reborn!

Created in 1995 at the iO Theater in Chicago, The Armando Diaz Experience IS the longest running improv show EVER. A guest monologist takes a suggestion from the audience and shares true stories from their life. These stories are then brought to life by a rotating cast of improv all-stars, which take audiences on a high minded, exhilarating comedic joy ride that will leave mouths tired of smiling. And occasionally, just occasionally, the man with his name on the show will drop by for some fun.

Writer-actor Sharon van Ivan is happy to be living in NYC again.

A graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and a longtime member of SAG-AFTRA and AEA, she was beginning to think of herself as a stay-at-home actor – until this year when she studied storytelling at the Magnet Theater. (Now she is a somewhat fanatical Adam Wade fan.) Her autobiographical book, Juggle and Hide, was published in 2014.

And she is the exclusive agent for the paintings of her late husband, the realist artist Charles Pfahl.