Autor/-in: Diana Burbano

Diana Burbano (she/ella), a Colombian immigrant, is a playwright, an Equity actor, and ateaching artist at South Coast Repertory and Breath of Fire Latina Theater Ensemble. Honoredby the Los Angeles Times as part of "La Vanguardia," she is a resident artist at Center Theatre Group and The Latino Theatre Company. Her play Ghosts of Bogotá was commissioned and premiered at AlterTheater in 2020, wasproduced at Actors Theatre of Charlotte, and is published and licensed through ConcordTheatricals. Other plays include Sapience (ART, Moxie Theatre; San Diego Rep Latinx New Play Festival), Fabulous Monsters, a Latinx punk-rock play featuring the music of FEA and a Kilroys selection (The Public Theater of San Antonio, published by Bloomsbury), Policarpa, and Caliban's Island. Her plays have been developed at the Center Theatre Group's writers' lab, The Geffen's Writers Room, the Drama League, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival Black Swan Lab, and Orlando Shakes' PlayFest, among others. Her commissions include Center Theatre Group, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Livermore Shakespeare, and HERO Theatre. Her honors include the 2021 Jane Chambers Award for Feminist Playwriting, the Advance Gender Equity in the Arts Grant, the Bay Area Rella Lossy Award, and a Princess Grace Award finalist nod. She is an elected member of the Dramatists Guild Council for Southern California and Chair of its AI Committee.