DIEGO ALEJANDRO GONZÁLEZ

[he.they+] is an NYC-based director, playwright, choreographer, theater-maker, and multidisciplinary artist by way of the México-Texas border. Diego co-founded THE BORDERLANDS, a cultural arts company centering art and artists rooted in Nepantla. Diego is a 2023/24 Drama League Directors Project Member & Fellowship Recipient, and a proud SDC Associate Member. Directing credits: Natasha, Pierre and The Great Comet of 1812 (March 2024: NYU/New Studio on Broadway); Guadalupe: un recuerdo, Peter/Starcatcher (Thirteen O'Clock); The Little Mermaid (24 HR Musical, Abilene TX). Assisting/Associate credits: La Broa' (Trinity Repertory Company); Twelfth Night (PUBLIC WORKS, The Public); CATS, Man of La Mancha, (Abilene Civic Center); Ghost: The Musical (ACU Theatre); Annie (All Star Theater, RGV). Film and documentary directing credits: "WHAT DO I STAND FOR?" and "REVOLUTION" (Lawrence Community Township).

New play development credits include: Call My Name (Clemson Univ./Tectonic Theater Project); ARTS FOR EVERYBODY (a OneNation/OneProject participatory arts initiative inspired by the 1936 Federal Theatre Project — led by mentor director Brisa Areli Muñoz); MERCEDES (a multidisciplinary work created by Modesto Flako Jimenez, produced by ¡OYE! Group/The Bushwick Starr/Abrons Arts Center); ON THE MOVE (The Civilians); and Doublespeak (Thirteen O'Clock), and Pablo y Pedro (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley).
Diego is the Creative Director at Dance Lab New York, was the Associate Artistic Director for Thirteen O'Clock Theater for the 2015/16 season in the Rio Grande Valley, and has most recently worked with the staff at Ars Nova, The Public (PUBLIC WORKS), Roundabout Theater Company, and Tectonic Theater Project. They have collaborated with WP Theater, The Civilians, ¡OYE! Group, Hi-ARTS, and Abrons Arts Center. They have co-led marketing strategy, consulting, and produced content creation with the teams at UMG Brands (Carly Rae Jepsen's Music Video "Surrender My Heart", a collaboration with Lenovo and Intel Evo), Baltimore Center Stage, CNTR ARTS, and Dance Lab New York. Diego Alejandro González and William Carlos Angulo [Co-Founders of THE BORDERLANDS] are inaugural recipients of the THEURBANX.ORG, an international arts residency program focused on urban culture, which they completed in Ciudad de México. 

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THE BORDERLANDS

is an arts collective and community that centers art and artists that represent Nepantla: the in-between, the neither-here-nor-there, the mixed, the two-sided, the two-spirited, and the otherwise intersectional. Dually based in New York City and El Rio Grande Valle in Texas, THE BORDERLANDS seeks to draw connections between the ancient and the contemporary, the spiritual and the physical, the indigenous and the alien by creating ’third culture’ with artists and community members. With roots in theatrical storytelling, THE BORDERLANDS’ work manifests as multi-media experiences that defy category. Current projects include GET TO THE POINTE - a ballroom fantasia about the invention of the pointe shoe, KING DAVID IN THE APOCALYPSE - an exploration of love, art, and religion, SELENA: THE EXPERIENCE - a celebration of Tejane music and culture, and the first-ever Spanish translation of Rogers and Hammerstein’s OKLAHOMA! told through the lens of Mexican vaquero culture and folklórico. THE BORDERLANDS was founded by Diego Alejandro González and William Carlos Angulo.