Experience

South Coast Repertory

• United States
• Performing Arts
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Teaching Artist

  • Jan 2008 - Present



PlayGround, Inc.

• United States
• Performing Arts
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Playwright

  • Jan 2020 - Present



Dramatists Guild of America

• United States
• Performing Arts
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Southern California Rep

  • Nov 2020 - Present



Self-Employed

• Writer

  • Jan 2007 - Present

  Diana Burbano, a Colombian immigrant, is an Equity actor, a playwright and a teaching artist at South Coast Repertory and Breath of Fire Latina Theatre Ensemble.Written work include Policarpa, Oregon Shakespeare Festival Brown Swan lab 2017, Drama League Rough Draft series May 2017, Honorable Mention, Jane Chambers Award 2017, Parsnip Ship 2017 Fabulous Monsters, Latinx Play Festival, San Diego Rep 2017, Festival51 2016 winner, about women in Punk Rock, Picture me Rollin’ (featured at the 35th annual William Inge Festival and Inkfest at 2cents.), Silueta, (about the Cuban artist Ana Mendieta), with Tom and Chris Shelton, and the TYA Shakespeare mash-up, Caliban’s Island winner 2017 Headwaters New Play Festival at Creede Repertory.(Published by YouthPLAYS). Libertadoras, Vamping and Linda were written for the 365 Women a Year project and have been performed around the world, with Linda featured in more that 20 festivals over the last year, including Center Theatre Group’s community library series. Her short play Rounds Per Second is in Smith and Kraus’s 5-minute play anthology. She is currently writing material for Center Theatre Group’s Chisme y Queso series, for Rogue Artists Plummer Park project and for Kaiser Permanente’s Educational touring show.She has also been a working actor since leaving the Professional Actors Conservatory in 1991. She originated the roles of Ama de Casa in the Spanish version of Menopause the Musical, Thumb in Imagine, and Holo-1 in the Labors of Hercules. She recently played Ana Guerrero in Jose Cruz Gonzales' Long Road Today/El Largo Camino de Hoy Dialogue/Dialogos project at South Coast Repertory. TV includes The People vs OJ Simpson, Cold Case, Betas. She played punk Praetorian guard Viv in the cult movie musical, The Isle of LesbosShe manages Sleep Till Noon Productions and The Gourmet Detective. Diana is one of the original members of the writers circle for Latino Theatre Association/ Los Angeles.



Diana Burbano

• Actor, producer

  • Jan 1984 - Present

  Diana has been a working actress since she was a 12 . She was born in Colombia, and came to this country as a young child. Acting gave her the ability to communicate in her new language, while fostering a love for the power of language. She studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, The Professional Actors Conservatory and the Royal National Theatre of Great Britain. She has been in or directed many theatre productions, and has been seen locally at South Coast Repertory and the Laguna Playhouse. She acts in both English and Spanish, has been on TV, and in Film, produces, writes and teaches, while being a literary agent for her husband and raising a 4 year old boy. Her passions are Shakespeare, Chekov and Punk Rock.



Sleep Till Noon Productions

• Great Poobah.

  • Jan 2004 - Present

  Our little production company.Scripts include: Caddie Woodlawn, TropicAna, Boy Who Ruled the Sun and Moon, Highpockets, and Caliban and the Sea Our little production company.Scripts include: Caddie Woodlawn, TropicAna, Boy Who Ruled the Sun and Moon, Highpockets, and Caliban and the Sea



Kaiser Permanente

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 700 & Above Employee

• Writer

  • Aug 2018 - Nov 2018

  Script for their touring program. Script for their touring program.



Gourmet Detective

• Artistic Director

  • Jun 2011 - Jan 2018

  Head of artistic and casting at Southern Califorrnia's premiere Murder Mystery Dinner Theatre. Venues in Newport Beach and Riverside Head of artistic and casting at Southern Califorrnia's premiere Murder Mystery Dinner Theatre. Venues in Newport Beach and Riverside



GFour Productions

• United States
• Entertainment
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Ama De Casa, Menopausia El Musical

  • Sep 2013 - Nov 2013

  The world premiere production of Menopausia el Musical at the Montalban theatre. The world premiere production of Menopausia el Musical at the Montalban theatre.



Great Plains Theatre Conference 2013

• Playlab Playwright

  • May 2013 - Jun 2013

  Writer/Silueta Writer/Silueta