Playwright. Performer. Theater Artist.
Diana Lynn Small writes, acts, and directs for the stage. She’s a 2015 graduate of the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin with focuses in playwriting and poetry. She’s made new theatre with UT Austin (Good Day; Enter a Woman Pretty Enough; Mad & a Goat), Theatre Masters (Dogfight), the Santa Barbara Museum of Art (We’re Still Kids), Westmont College (Muéveme Muévete; Beauty Bomb, They Must Be Wings; Jupiter I Love You), and the Zach Theatre (Dream: A Midsummer Forrest Tour). Diana was an artist in residence at Tofte Lake Center in Ely, MN in 2014. Her two-woman show Mad & a Goat has toured to 6 cities since it was developed in 2013. Her play Good Day was selected for the 2015 Great Plains Conference PlayLabs, Kitchen Dog Theatre’s New Works Festival and was a finalist for the 2015 Play Penn Conference. Diana has worked with paper chairs theatre company in Austin having directed Elizabeth Doss's play Mast and performing/dramaturging Doss's play Poor Herman. Diana will begin studies towards a Masters in Divinity at Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary Fall of 2016. Diana returns to stories about the American West, past and present. She grew up in Martinez, California three miles south of the Shell Oil Plant and three miles east of the John Muir Historic House.
Diana Lynn Small writes, acts, and directs for the stage. She’s a 2015 graduate of the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin with focuses in playwriting and poetry. She’s made new theatre with UT Austin (Good Day; Enter a Woman Pretty Enough; Mad & a Goat), Theatre Masters (Dogfight), the Santa Barbara Museum of Art (We’re Still Kids), Westmont College (Muéveme Muévete; Beauty Bomb, They Must Be Wings; Jupiter I Love You), and the Zach Theatre (Dream: A Midsummer Forrest Tour). Diana was an artist in residence at Tofte Lake Center in Ely, MN in 2014. Her two-woman show Mad & a Goat has toured to 6 cities since it was developed in 2013. Her play Good Day was selected for the 2015 Great Plains Conference PlayLabs, Kitchen Dog Theatre’s New Works Festival and was a finalist for the 2015 Play Penn Conference. Diana has worked with paper chairs theatre company in Austin having directed Elizabeth Doss's play Mast and performing/dramaturging Doss's play Poor Herman. Diana will begin studies towards a Masters in Divinity at Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary Fall of 2016. Diana returns to stories about the American West, past and present. She grew up in Martinez, California three miles south of the Shell Oil Plant and three miles east of the John Muir Historic House.
