Diego Arciniegas
Artistic Director

Diego Arciniegas is a Lecturer in the Theatre Studies Department at Wellesley College, where he teaches Introduction to Acting, Advanced Scene Study and Playing Shakespeare. Diego has also been acting and directing in the New England area for the past 15 years. Diego emigrated from Colombia, South America with his family in 1961 and became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1980. He holds a B.A. from Williams College, where he was a National Hispanic Scholar and Mead Fellow. After graduation in 1982, Diego trained in theatre at B.E.S.G.L. (The British and European Studies Group, London), where he was certified in Stage Combat by the Association of British Fight Directors. Diego has taught at Emerson College in their Fine Arts Division, and in the Master's Degree Program at the Boston Conservatory of Music. He regularly serves as a judge at the Massachusetts High School Drama Festival, and has represented Wellesley College at the American College Theatre Festival.

Last April Boston Mayor Thomas Menino cited Diego for his work at the Publick Theatre. Diego was named an "Emerging Artist Fellow" of the City of Boston for his contribution to the cultural life of the city through his work at the Publick. In 1994, Diego received the Elliot Norton Award for his work as a performer, and has been cited repeatedly by the Association of Independent Reviewers.

As a director, Diego has staged his own translation of The House of Bernarda Alba by Federico Garcia Lorca, and Christopher Hampton's Les Liaisons Dangereuses, for Emerson Stage. At North Shore Music Theatre he directed A Midsummer Night's Dream and Romeo and Juliet. At the Publick Theatre he has staged Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing and directed, and simultaneously performed in, The Winter's Tale. Diego also directed and performed in The Sins of Sor Juana, chronicling the life of seventeenth century Mexican Poet Juana Inéz de la Crúz. In 1999, Sor Juana was named Best New Play at the Helen Hayes Awards in Washington D.C.

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