Diego Arciniegas, Artistic Director

Diego has been the Artistic Director of Publick Theatre Boston since 2001. Most recently, Diego performed the role of El Duende in Astor Piazzola's Tango Operita - Maria de Buenos Aires (Time Out: Critics Pick) at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts in New York City, the role of Bernie in Terrence McNally's Some Men at SpeakEasy Stage Company, and directed his own translation of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull for the Publick. Diego is also a Senior Lecturer in Theatre Studies at Wellesley College. A native of Colombia, Diego was educated at Williams College, and trained in Theatre at the British and European Studies Group, James Wilson, Oxon, Dir. Diego is the narrator of the critically acclaimed children's audio book Mike Mulligan y su Maquina Maravillosa by Virginia Lee Burton, and has narrated a number of children's stories and poems in English and Spanish.

Susanne Nitter, Producing Director

Originally from Northern California, Susanne has served as The Publick's Producing Director since 2001, and has been performing in the Boston area for the past ten years. Recent roles for The Publick include: Arkadina in Chekhov's The Seagull, Gilda in Noel Coward's Design for Living, Margrethe Bohr in Copenhagen, and Hannah Jarvis in Arcadia (2006 Eliot Norton Award). This past winter she appeared as Hannah Pitt, Ethel Rosenberg, and the Rabbi (among others) in Angels in America (2008 Eliot Norton Award) for Boston TheatreWorks. Susanne has been a judge for the Massachusetts High School Drama Festival and received her theatre training in the Master of Fine Arts program at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco. Television viewers may remember her from the hit series E.R..