Nick J. Browne
Nick J. Browne is a New York City-based freelance director, producer, and educator, currently serving as the SDCF Directing Observer for Swept Away on Broadway, with Michael Mayer and Johanna McKeon. Passionate about new play development and elevating underserved voices in American theater, Nick’s recent directing credits include Joey Merlo’s Tales from Beyond the Closet!!! (2024 Core Production, The Tank), Jordan Tannahill’s Is My Microphone On? (Center at West Park), the world premiere of Max Keane’s Keynote at Necro-con (The Brick), Carol Mazhuvancheril’s Song of Joy (2023 Core Production, The Tank), Simon Stephens’ Punk Rock (Chinatown Soup), and Ike Holter’s HIT THE WALL (The Stonewall Inn). He has also directed Jordan Tannahill’s Concord Floral (Brooklyn College), Platforms (LAByrinth Theater Co. Barn Series), and another production of HIT THE WALL (NYU, A Streak of Violet). Internationally, Nick has worked at the PEI Island Fringe Festival and attended the La MaMa International Directors Symposium in Umbria, Italy. He is a graduate of LAByrinth Theater Company’s 2019 Intensive Ensemble and the 2015 SITI Summer Intensive in Saratoga Springs. Nick holds an MFA from Brooklyn College and continues to create movement-driven, ensemble-based theater with a focus on innovation and boundary-pushing storytelling.
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Diego Alejandro González
Diego Alejandro González [he.they+] is an NYC-based theater-maker and multidisciplinary artist by way of the México-Texas border. Diego co-founded BORDERLANDS, an arts collective centering art and artists that represent Nepantla: the in-between, the neither-here-nor-there, the mixed, and the otherwise intersectional. Diego’s work seeks to draw connections between the ancient and the contemporary, the spiritual and the physical, the indigenous and the alien, and to create ’third culture’ with artists through writing, musical, opera, dance, and performance art. Diego is a Drama League Directors Project Member & Fellowship Recipient, a Mercury Store Directing recipient, and an SDC Associate Member.
Direction/Choreography credits: Natasha, Pierre and The Great Comet of 1812 (dir./chor., NYU/New Studio on Broadway); OPERA LAB (dir., NYU Tisch GMTWP); ¡DESPIERTA! an ARTS FOR EVERYBODY new musical (chor./assoc. dir.); Guadalupe: un recuerdo (dir./writer, Thirteen O’Clock). Assisting/Associate credits: La Broa’ (Trinity Rep); Twelfth Night (PUBLIC WORKS, The Public). Film/documentary dir. credits: “WHAT DO I STAND FOR?” and “REVOLUTION” (Lawrence Community Township).
New play development: DAVID & THE APOCALYPSE (writer/director); MERCEDES (a multidisciplinary work created by Flako Jimenez, produced by ¡OYE! Group, dir. by Brisa Areli Muñoz); ON THE MOVE (The Civilians); Doublespeak (Thirteen O’Clock); and Pablo y Pedro (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley).
Diego is the Creative Director at Dance Lab NY, formerly served as the Associate Artistic Director for Thirteen O’Clock Theater in the Rio Grande Valley, and has worked on staff at Ars Nova, The Public, Roundabout Theater Company, and Tectonic Theater Project. Current: The Baker’s Wife (dir./chor., Village Light Opera). diegogzz.com @diego.on.my.mind
Photo Credit: Whitney Brown
David H. Parker
David H. Parker (they/them), with almost 10 years in the industry under their belt, is a multiple national award-winning artist from Birmingham, AL, which they lovingly call “a blue island in the US South’s sea of red.” Intersectionality informs the base of their work, but the intersection of Blackness and Queerness is always at the top of their priorities. David has worked on and Off-Broadway as well as various regional theaters and organizations as a freelance director, playwright, actor, poet, and cultural worker, and is the Co-Artistic Director of the Birmingham Black Repertory Theatre Collective.
Selected recognitions include invitations to: the inaugural Cody Renard Richard Scholarship cohort; the inaugural GLAAD Black Queer Creative Summit; participate as a cultural organizer at the Highlander Research and Education Center where the likes of Rosa Parks and Angela Davis trained; the East/West Players and Rogue Machine Writers Roundtables in Los Angeles. Selected directing/associate directing credits: Fat Ham (Geffen Playhouse/Broadway Transfer), Guess Who’s Coming to the Juneteenth Seder? with Zhailon Levingston (Inheritance Theater Project), Fairview (University of California, Los Angeles), Patience (2nd Stage). David holds a Master of Fine Arts from UCLA.
David’s new original work is in development at The Workshop Theater this fall, which will then be produced at The Tank in 2025. Don’t be shy—say hi and keep up with them!
Photo Credit: LaQuann Dawson