DIEGO DEL RÍO
Diego del Río, director and acting professor.
DIRECTOR AND TEACHER
Graduated in Theatre by the UDLAP, awarded with the “Excellence Scholarship” as the most outstanding student of the arts and Humanities School. He has directed plays like: Circle Mirror Transformation by Annie Baker and Master Class by T. McNally (Produced by OCESA), Rent by J. Larson, The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams (Nominated for best director at the Metropolitan Theater Awards in Mexico), Good People by D. Lindsay Abaire (Winner of the ACPT award), Next to Normal by B. Yorkey (Winner for best director of a musical at the Metropolitan Theater Awards in Mexico), Wit by M. Edson (Winner of the ACPT award), and his own versions of The Seagull (Winner of the APT award), Three Sisters and Uncle Vanya by A. Chejov, to mentions just a few.
He has worked with first class actors like Arcelia Ramírez, Blanca Guerra, Diana Bracho, Luis Gerardo Méndez, Maria Rojo, Salvador Sánchez, Hernan Mendoza, Odiseo Bichir, Ludwika Paleta and Enrique Arreola, among others.
He is the Artistic Director of the Mexican Acting Conservatory (Sunland) in Mexico City. Winner of the FONCA Young Creators Program 2019-2020 for the stage direction department. In 2020 he had several plays running like MEMORIA with the National Theatre Company of which he is co-author along with Paula Zelaya, Seminar by Theresa Rebeck on
“Teatro Milán” and Spring Awakening by F. Weedekind.
He wrote and directed the successful monologue COORDENADAS SUTILES, winner for best play in digital format at the Metropolitan Theater Awards in Mexico during the pandemic. In 2021 he directed Blood Weddings by Federico García Lorca with the first generation of actors that graduated from the Mexican Acting Conservatory and Blue Room by David Hare produced by “Tercera Llamada”.
In 2022 he directed his debut film “All the silence” produced by Inna Payán and Luis Salinas and also had his debut at “Palacio de Bellas Artes” with the world premiere of the opera “Juana sin cielo” by Alberto García Demestres, with the Mexican soprano María Katzarava. He also directed “The Humans” by Stephen Karam and “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller with the second generation of the Mexican Acting Coservatory.
WRITER & TRANSLATOR
In addition to being an experienced stage director, Diego Del Río is the author of the monologue “Coordenadas Sutiles” and co-author of the play “Memoria” with Paula Zelaya Cervantes, written for CNT (Compañía Nacional de Teatro).
He also has his own version of several A. Chekhov plays like “The Seagull”, “Three Sisters” and “Uncle Vanya” as well as “The Strongest” by A. Strindberg and “Spring Awakening” by F. Weedekind.
He translated Tennessee Williams’s “The Glass Menagerie” in collaboration with Paula Zelaya Cervantes, and did Mexican translations of J. Larson’s musical “RENT”, and B. Yorkey’s “Next to normal” in collaboration with Iker Madrid. He also translated “Seminar” by T. Rebeck, “All my sons” and “The crucible” by A. Miller. He adapted and translated “Tribes” by N. Raine in collaboration with Adriana Llabrés, “Mothers and sons” by T. McNally in collaboration with Diana Bracho and “Good People” by D. Lindsay-Abaire in collaboration with Paula Zelaya Cervantes and Milena Pezzi.