Diana Burbano(I)

Diana Burbano is a Colombian immigrant, a playwright, an Equity actor, and a teaching artist. Diana's play Ghosts of Bogotá premiered at Alter Theatre in 2020 just before the pandemic shut down. Ghosts was produced at the Actors Theatre of Charlotte in 2022. Sapience premiered at Moxie Theatre in San Diego in 2022. Fabulous Monsters, a Latinx Punk Rock play will premiere at The Public Theatre of San Antonio, featuring the music of FEA in 2023. She was in Center Theatre Group's 2018-19 Writers Workshop cohort and the Geffen's Writers Lab in 20-21. She has had commissions with Artists Repertory Theatre, Breath of Fire Latina Theatre Ensemble, Center Theatre Group, and Livermore Shakespeare Festival. Residencies include Marfa Live Arts, Milagro theatre Ingenio, Workshop Theatre Lab at Echo Theatre, and the Mercury Company for Artists Repertory. Diana played Amalia in Jose Cruz Gonzales' American Mariachi at South Coast Repertory and Arizona Theatre Company, Marisela in La Ruta at Artists Repertory, and Izzy in the world premiere of Julie Hébert's Drunk at the Base of the Bodhi Tree for Mile High Theatre. You can also see her as Viv the Punk in the cult musical Isle of Lesbos. Diana has been awarded the Advance Gender Equity in the Arts grant 2022, the Bay Area Rella Lossy Award for Ghosts of Bogotá, the Long Beach Arts Council Professional Artist Grant 2019, 2020, and was a 2021 Jane Chambers Awardee for excellence in Feminist Playwriting. She was a featured artist in the Los Angeles Times' LA Vanguardia November 2022