Diane Rodriguez

Diane is an Obie Award winning multi-disciplinary theatre artist. She is an accomplished actor, anthologized writer, regional theatre director and Associate Producer/Director of New Play Production at Center Theatre Group (CTG), Los Angeles. She began her career as a lead actress with the internationally renowned political theatre company, El Teatro Campesino. 

 Recognized as one of the country’s leading advocates for non-text based and ensemble driven work as well as a long time advocate of Latino playwrights and actors, Diane maintains her artistic career while being a member of the artistic staff of Center Theatre Group, which includes the Mark Taper Forum, the Ahmanson Theatre and the Kirk Douglas Theatre. Currently, under her tenure as Director of New Play Production (NPP), CTG’s NPP program was awarded a one million dollar grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for the commissioning and development of seven new non text based works.

 She has developed and directed the works of numerous writers including Nilo Cruz’s Hortensia and the Museum of Dreams and Dreams of My Father,  Lynn Nottage’s Fabulation  at Sundance Theatre Lab and Lloyd Suh's American Hwangap at Ojai Playwrights Conference, Erik Patterson’s Sick for Playwrights Arena, and Les Thomas’ Cave Quest for East West Players, among many others.  In 2008, for Mattel toy company, she wrote the book and was the supervising director for the first live Barbie musical Barbie Live/The Princess Adventures that premiered in Buenos Aires and continues to tour Latin America.  She won an OBIE for Performance (Best Ensemble) in 2007 for playing 23 characters in Heather Woodbury’s Tale of Two Cities.