Recommended by Diana Burbano

  • Diana Burbano: The House of Flightless Birds

    A gorgeous, delicate yet concrete meditation on masculinity and brotherly bond. The main character is on the autism spectrum, and his journey is a revelation. Shlichtman has a deep understanding of her subject matter and is incredibly honest as she examines what the characters navigate as Latinx men.

    A gorgeous, delicate yet concrete meditation on masculinity and brotherly bond. The main character is on the autism spectrum, and his journey is a revelation. Shlichtman has a deep understanding of her subject matter and is incredibly honest as she examines what the characters navigate as Latinx men.

  • Diana Burbano: Count Yourself Among the Lucky

    A beautiful and richly visual meditation on love, relationships, family, chosen and not, with a skeleton car and a dark desert highway. Completely gorgeous and original.

    A beautiful and richly visual meditation on love, relationships, family, chosen and not, with a skeleton car and a dark desert highway. Completely gorgeous and original.

  • Diana Burbano: Cola'o: A Bilingual Trova

    This is a beautiful piece about language, self, music and coffee. Totally engaging and gorgeous. Pero que belleza! Hay muchas maneras de tomar el café. Esta trova es una delicia.

    This is a beautiful piece about language, self, music and coffee. Totally engaging and gorgeous. Pero que belleza! Hay muchas maneras de tomar el café. Esta trova es una delicia.

  • Diana Burbano: Circular

    Beautiful, muscular and poetic language. The circle is unbroken in terms of the toll war takes, and the clever way Shamas weaves strands of stories together is immensely satisfying. Myth becomes fact becomes myth becomes fact.
    A two hander! About PTSD! When we re-open this mythic play is an ideal one to program into seasons all over the country.

    Beautiful, muscular and poetic language. The circle is unbroken in terms of the toll war takes, and the clever way Shamas weaves strands of stories together is immensely satisfying. Myth becomes fact becomes myth becomes fact.
    A two hander! About PTSD! When we re-open this mythic play is an ideal one to program into seasons all over the country.

  • Diana Burbano: SEEING EYE

    A gorgeous, achingly beautiful play with intricately detailed relationships. It feels true, real. It also features characters that we have not seen enough of. Anyone who produces it and casts it well, will have a real revolution of "diversity" on their stage.

    A gorgeous, achingly beautiful play with intricately detailed relationships. It feels true, real. It also features characters that we have not seen enough of. Anyone who produces it and casts it well, will have a real revolution of "diversity" on their stage.

  • Diana Burbano: Venn Diagram

    Venn Diagram is a beautiful, and heartbreaking play about two college friends, one Black one Jewish, who meet after many years apart. The title comes from the confluence of circumstances that each experiences and is traumatized by. This play deals with violence by the police towards Black women, in a way I have not yet seen on stage. This is a powerful piece, and I look forward to seeing it produced.

    Venn Diagram is a beautiful, and heartbreaking play about two college friends, one Black one Jewish, who meet after many years apart. The title comes from the confluence of circumstances that each experiences and is traumatized by. This play deals with violence by the police towards Black women, in a way I have not yet seen on stage. This is a powerful piece, and I look forward to seeing it produced.

  • Diana Burbano: THE BALLAD OF THE INSTACART DRIVER

    Carnes looks and SEES the person who is keeping us safe. A lovely ode to the unsung hero.

    Carnes looks and SEES the person who is keeping us safe. A lovely ode to the unsung hero.

  • Diana Burbano: Fresno

    A gorgeous, searing, tear your guts out play. Masculine and macho but with so much heart and depth. Amador paints in pain and violence and makes beauty

    A gorgeous, searing, tear your guts out play. Masculine and macho but with so much heart and depth. Amador paints in pain and violence and makes beauty

  • Diana Burbano: Photos with my Rapist: A One-Minute Monologue

    Brilliant in its simplicity and sadly, its universality. Delicate and painful.

    Brilliant in its simplicity and sadly, its universality. Delicate and painful.

  • Diana Burbano: Here Rests the Heart

    This is a gorgeous, affecting, heart bursting play. Polak is crystal clear in his characters needs, and wants even when they are hiding them from themselves. Really, it felt like he was walking me through his soul. A historical play that feels all too modern. Urgent and REAL.

    This is a gorgeous, affecting, heart bursting play. Polak is crystal clear in his characters needs, and wants even when they are hiding them from themselves. Really, it felt like he was walking me through his soul. A historical play that feels all too modern. Urgent and REAL.