One performer. Every character. A brand-new story each night. Diane Jorge transforms one audience member’s real-life love stories, enemies, and secrets into a wildly hilarious telenovela, playing every character herself. No two shows are ever the same!
Critics’ Choice Award for Best Solo Show – Improv (Orlando Fringe 2025)
Orlando Sentinel’s Best of Orlando Fringe Festival 2026
Montreal Fringe 2026 Frankie Award Nominee – Best Engilsh Language Comedy
“…the perfect mix of humor and… melodramatic.” – Orlando Sentinel
“None pack more pure joy per minute than Solovela… Jorge is a deft performer with a vibrantly volcanic personality…she fluently speaks the language of laughter..” – Orlando Weekly
Diane Jorge
Plantation, Fla.
Schedule
Solovela will perform in the 9:05 p.m. block at the The Commodore on Friday, August 7.
Previous Countdown Improv Festival appearances
2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021
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Bio
Diane Jorge is a Miami-born comedian, actor, and improviser with over 17 years of experience performing, teaching, and creating original comedy. She is the creator and star of Solovela: An Improvised Solo Telenovela, winner of the 2025 Orlando Fringe Critics’ Choice Award for Best Solo Show – Improv. The show transforms audience stories into a fast-paced, character-filled telenovela, fully improvised and never the same twice. In addition to Solovela, Diane incorporates her improv training with her character Mercado de la Fortuna giving fortunes con mucho, mucho humor. She loves to teach and encourage her students to make bold choices with different workshops. Whether she’s improvising solo, teaching a room full of students, or cracking up crowds with stand-up and storytelling, Diane brings humor, humanity, and a fearless sense of fun to everything she does.
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