California – South: Art in the Time of Omicron

Diana Burbano

Mar 01, 2022

Darren Lee, center, and the cast of Gold Mountain at Utah Shakespeare Festival. Photo by Lia Chang.

For this issue, I talked to Los Angeles playwrights about their hopes for the future.

Jason Ma is a writer/composer/theatre artist who is bound and determined to see more inclusion of Asian stories in the theatrical canon.

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Diana Burbano

was named as part of the Los Angeles Times’ La Vanguardia. She is a Colombian immigrant, a playwright, an Equity actor, and a teaching artist. Diana has been awarded the Advance Gender Equity in the Arts Grant 2022, the Bay Area Rella Lossy Award, the Long Beach Arts Council Professional Artist Grant 2019, 2020, and was a 2021 Jane Chambers Awardee for excellence in Feminist Playwriting. She currently represents Southern California on the Dramatists Guild council.

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