Diego Lanao

Diego Lanao is a proud Peruvian-American writer & actor who has studied playwriting at HB Studio, television writing at Script Anatomy, TV Story Structure with Eric Kaplan and sketch writing at the Upright Citizens Brigade. Most recently, his TV episodic pilot, THE RIGHT ONE ALIVE, was selected for the 2024 STARZ #TakeTheLead Writers’ Intensive, the 2023 NHMC Series Script Writers Program and placed on the 2022 Latinx List x The Black List. He was named a TV writer finalist for the 2022 NBC Writers on the Launch Program and a writer finalist for the 2021 3rd Annual NOSOTROS & NBC Ya Tu Sabes Monologue Showcase. His theater work has been developed and featured at: SolFest Latiné Theater Festival, AMT Theater New Work Development Program, Teatro Chelsea, The Barrow Group Performing Arts Center, Latinx Playwrights Circle Fresh Draft Series and South Texas College Theater. He is a proud member of the Latinx Playwrights Circle (2023 Summer Dramatists Guild Fellow) and The Ensemble Studio Theatre LA’s New West Playwrights Group. He earned a B.A. in Biology with a Joint Minor in Computer Science and Mathematics from NYU.