Diego de Los Andes is a conceptual artist, cultural worker, and producer whose creative practice weaves together theater, street performance, visual art, writing, and community-centered projects. Rooted in a Neo-Renaissance spirit, Diego works across disciplines to reimagine art as a tool for connection, resistance, and transformation.

With over a decade of experience, Diego has emerged as a pioneer of innovative performances that blend artistic expression with social impact. As a street artist, his captivating interventions have engaged over a million people, using the public sphere as a living stage for poetic defiance and collective imagination. In Los Angeles, his continued presence and advocacy have helped make street juggling acts a celebrated and normalized part of the city’s cultural landscape.

Alongside his work in performance, Diego is also a committed studio artist, working in sculpture, painting, and mixed media. His visual artworks reflect the same themes present in his street practice—resilience, marginality, and rebellion—often incorporating urban textures, reclaimed materials, and symbolic forms that speak to the immigrant experience and the poetics of survival.

Diego’s commitment to cultural advocacy is reflected in his role as a producer of projects that celebrate diversity and immigrant narratives. Among his initiatives is Love Letter Los Angeles (Instagram: @loveletter_la), a radio show and podcast that aired weekly on KPFK 90.7FM for nearly three years. Each episode featured artists from immigrant families, exploring their creative journeys and personal histories to foster dialogue and inspire listeners. Though the program is currently paused, it remains a cornerstone of Diego’s broader work to amplify marginalized voices.

Trained in Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed, Diego also facilitates workshops for emerging artists and activists, using performance as a method for empowerment, reflection, and social justice. His poetry, featured in The George Floyd Jr. Poetry Anthology by Los Angeles Press, further reveals his commitment to themes of equity, transformation, and emotional truth in the arts.

Diego is an associate member of The Actors’ Gang, a globally recognized American theatre company, and serves on the board of the Artist Magnet Justice Alliance. Recently, he led a juggling and storytelling workshop for the Center Theatre Group at public libraries in Boyle Heights, and was selected for an observership with Hamlet, directed by Robert O’Hara at CTG’s Mark Taper Forum. Whether in the street, the studio, or the classroom, Diego de Los Andes continues to build bridges between creativity and community—offering a body of work that is at once grounded, visionary, and defiantly human.

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Experience Overview

Diego de Los Andes is a multidisciplinary artist with a wide-ranging background in theater, film, street performance, studio arts, education, and community-based work. His theatrical experience spans writing, directing, and acting across some of Los Angeles’ most dynamic stages and festivals. Diego wrote and directed Acorazado Tijuana and El Deseo del Gigante, two original works exploring memory, displacement, and collective resistance. His acting credits include performances in March, produced by the Los Angeles LGBT Center and Playwrights Arena; I Yield My Time with Coin & Ghost as a resident artist at A Noise Within; and appearances in the Short+Sweet Theatre Festival, Brisk Festival, and the 10-Minute Frida Kahlo Theatre Festival, directed by Rubén Amavizca.

Diego’s 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. In addition, he has served as a drama workshop teacher with Grupo Ta’yer in Los Angeles, contributing to the creative development of local Latinx theater.

His film experience 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 from London to Los Angeles. His public poetry readings in London, UK, offered spontaneous literary engagement in urban environments. During the pandemic, he launched 100 Days, a performance project of daily street shows responding to President Biden’s unfulfilled promises on immigration reform. Over 100 consecutive days, Diego performed juggling and clown acts at intersections and plazas throughout Los Angeles, transforming public space into a forum for joy, resistance, and solidarity.
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As a facilitator, Diego teaches across disciplines with an emphasis on liberation pedagogy. He has served as a theater instructor for Grupo Ta’yer through PACTL in Altadena and led Theatre of the Oppressed workshops for undocumented youth, DACA recipients, and tenant organizers during rent strikes. In 2024, he led a Juggling and Storytelling Workshop series at public libraries in Boyle Heights for Center Theatre Group (CTG), blending physical play with oral tradition for community engagement.

Also in 2025, Diego was selected for an observership at Center Theatre Group’s production of Hamlet, directed by Robert O’Hara at the Mark Taper Forum, where he observed the creative process of an experimental reinterpretation of Shakespeare within one of LA’s leading theaters.

His poetry has been published in The George Floyd Jr. Poetry Anthology by Los Angeles Press. Diego is currently an associate member of The Actors’ Gang, a globally renowned theater company led by Tim Robbins, and serves on the board of the Artist Magnet Justice Alliance, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit supporting social justice through interdisciplinary art.

To explore more of Diego’s literary work, essays, and visual storytelling, visit his Substack: ddlaart.substack.com