Diego de Los Andes is a conceptual artist, cultural worker, and producer whose practice integrates theater, street performance, visual art, writing, and community-based projects. Rooted in a Neo-Renaissance spirit, his work spans disciplines while remaining united by a commitment to art as a vehicle for connection, resistance, action, and transformation.

With more than a decade of experience, Diego has developed a body of performance work that merges artistic experimentation with social impact. His interventions in public space have engaged audiences numbering in the millions, treating the street as a living stage for poetic defiance and collective imagination. In Los Angeles, his sustained practice has contributed to the recognition of street juggling and performance as integral elements of the city’s cultural fabric.

Alongside his performance work, Diego maintains a studio practice in sculpture, painting, and mixed media. His visual works—often incorporating reclaimed urban materials—reflect recurring themes of resilience, marginality, and rebellion, evoking the immigrant experience and the poetics of survival.

Diego’s commitment to cultural advocacy extends to his role as a producer of projects that highlight immigrant narratives and diasporic creativity. His long-running radio show and podcast, Love Letter Los Angeles (Instagram: @loveletter_la), aired weekly for nearly three years on KPFK 90.7FM. The program featured conversations with artists from immigrant families, amplifying voices and stories often absent from mainstream cultural platforms.

Trained in Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed, Diego has facilitated workshops for emerging artists and grassroots organizers, using performance as a methodology for empowerment, dialogue, and social justice. His poetry, published in The George Floyd Jr. Poetry Anthology by Los Angeles Press, further illustrates his dedication to themes of equity, transformation, and emotional truth in the arts.

Recent projects include a series of juggling and storytelling workshops for Center Theatre Group at public libraries in Boyle Heights, as well as an observership for Hamlet, directed by Robert O’Hara, at the Mark Taper Forum. Whether in the street, the studio, or the classroom, Diego continues to create work that bridges communities and disciplines, advancing an art practice that is visionary, grounded, and defiantly human.

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Diego has written and directed original works including Acorazado Tijuana and El Deseo del Gigante, both exploring themes of displacement, memory, and collective resistance. His acting credits include productions such as March (Los Angeles LGBT Center / Playwrights Arena), I Yield My Time (Coin & Ghost at A Noise Within), and appearances in the Short+Sweet Theatre Festival, Brisk Festival, and the 10-Minute Frida Kahlo Theatre Festival. He has also collaborated with Teatro del Barrio on Olvera Street and taught drama workshops with Grupo Ta’yer, contributing to the creative development of Latinx theater in Los Angeles.

His collaborations with The Actors’ Gang include Shambles, directed by Stefan Haves; Open Workshop, directed by Hannah Chodos; and Ybor City, directed by Mariana Da Silva. He also appeared in Dulcinea de la Habana, directed by Susannah Drissi, and has regularly participated in popular theater productions with Teatro del Barrio on Olvera Street.

Diego’s screen work includes roles in COYOTE – The Way Home (dir. Yiran Zhou), Frankie – Run! Die! Kill (dir. Paul-Anthony Navarro), Parking Obsessed – The Tales of a Corporate Slave (dir. Molly Jacobs), Leo – Celeste in Spring (dir. Kat Mills Martin), and Star – Ornament & Crime: Hold Me Now featuring Island Police (dir. Chica Barbosa & Thiago Zanato).

As a street performer, Diego has brought poetry, juggling, and clowning to public spaces across cities from London to Los Angeles. In London, his public poetry readings transformed urban environments into stages for spontaneous literary engagement. During the pandemic, he initiated 100 Days, a cycle of daily street shows that confronted U.S. immigration policy through acts of joy and defiance in public space.

As an educator and facilitator, he has emphasized liberation pedagogy and creative empowerment, leading Theatre of the Oppressed workshops for undocumented youth, DACA recipients, and tenant organizers during rent strikes, while also serving as a theater instructor for Grupo Ta’yer through PACTL in Altadena. In 2024, he developed and led a Juggling and Storytelling Workshop series in Boyle Heights public libraries with Center Theatre Group, blending physical theater with oral tradition to engage intergenerational audiences.

His poetry has been published in The George Floyd Jr. Poetry Anthology (Los Angeles Press), and his essays, plays, and poetic writings continue to circulate through his Substack, ddlaart.substack.com.

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