DIEGO ALEJANDRO GONZÁLEZ

[he.they.any] is an NYC-based theater-maker from the MX/TX border, and Co-Creator of BORDERLANDS (with William Carlos Angulo), an arts company that centers artists in nepantla—the space of in-betweenness. Diego is a 2025/26 Directing Fellow at Mercury Store (a lab space for NYC theater artists), an SDC Associate Member, a selected director of The Drama League 2023/24, and a recipient of the SDCF Observership on Broadway’s HADESTOWN.
In Development: DAVID & THE APOCALYPSE (Co-Creator, BORDERLANDS/urbanX CDMX 2023). Works: Great Comet of 1812 (Director/Choreographer, UVA Drama & NYU Tisch); Sweeney Todd (Director, VLOG); The Secret Sharer (Co-Creator, DNA Works/ArtsEmerson); In The Heights (Associate Director, TUTS); BERNARDA ALBA (Associate Director, SU Drama); The Baker’s Wife (Director/Choreographer, VLOG); ¡DESPIERTA! (Choreographer/Associate Director, Arts For Everybody); NYU Opera Lab (Director, AOP & NYU Tisch Grad. MTWP); and La Broa’ (Assistant Director, Trinity Rep); Guadalupe (Director/Playwright, Thirteen O'Clock Theater). Film/Documentary credits include What Do I Stand For? and Revolution (Director, Lawrence Community Township).

Collaborations: ARTS FOR EVERYBODY (a participatory arts initiative inspired by the 1936 Federal Theatre Project — led by spiritual mentor Brisa Areli Muñoz); MERCEDES (a multidisciplinary work created by Modesto Flako Jimenez); ON THE MOVE (The Civilians); Call My Name (Tectonic Theater Project + Clemson University); Doublespeak (Thirteen O'Clock); and Pablo y Pedro (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley).
Diego was formerly the Creative Director at Dance Lab NY, the Associate Artistic Director for Thirteen O'Clock Theater for the 2015/16 season in the Rio Grande Valley of South TX, and has held artistic and administrative positions at Ars Nova, The Public (PUBLIC WORKS), Dance Lab New York, Roundabout Theater Company, and Tectonic Theater Project. They have collaborated with UMG Brands (Carly Rae Jepsen's Music Video "Surrender My Heart"), Signature Theatre, Playwrights Realm, The TEAM, WP Theater, Sol Project, Musical Theatre Factory, The Civilians, ¡OYE! Group, Hi-ARTS, Abrons Arts Center, THEURBANX.ORG, CNTR ARTS, and Mercury Store.
Diego Alejandro González and William Carlos Angulo [Co-Artistic Directors of BORDERLANDS] are inaugural artists recipients of the THEURBANX.ORG, an international arts company focused on urban culture.

Diego brings a creative ethos rooted in borderland identity, interdisciplinary art, devising applied theater, and collective liberation.

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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, 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, 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, DAVID & THE APOCALYPSE - an exploration of love, art, and religion, TEJANX: 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 rancheras, vaquero culture, and ballet folklórico. BORDERLANDS was created by Diego Alejandro González and William Carlos Angulo.