Artist Profile
Diana Burbano is a Colombian immigrant, playwright, Equity actor, and teaching artist at Breath of Fire Latina Theatre Ensemble and South Coast Repertory. Sapience, a Playground-SF 2020 winner premiered at San Diego’s Moxie Theatre in January 2022. Diana’s play Ghosts of Bogota won the NuVoices festival at Actors Theatre of Charlotte in 2019, where it will be produced in 2022. Ghosts was commissioned and debuted at Alter Theater in the Bay Area in February 2020. Fabulous Monsters, a Kilroy’s selection was to premiere at Playwrights Arena in 2020 (postponed). Diana was in the Geffen’s Writers Lab from 2020-21 and in Center Theatre Group’s 2018-19 Writers Workshop cohort. She is under or has completed commissions for Artists’ Repertory Theatre, Latino Theatre Company, Center Theatre Group, Lower Depths Ensemble, and Livermore Shakespeare Festival. Diana recently played “Leona” in Brian Quijada’s Somewhere Over the Border (online) at Arizona Theatre Company. You can also see her as “Viv the Punk” in the cult musical, Isle of Lesbos. She is the current Dramatists Guild Representative for Southern California.