Diane Ciesla (she/her/hers) began her career in her hometown of Chicago working at the Goodman, Illinois Theater Center, Marriott Theatre and Pheasant Run. Study with Stella Adler and Robert Lewis brought her to NYC, and much to everyone’s surprise this die-hard Chicagoan stayed.
Film: 5 Flights Up (Morgan Freeman & Diane Keaton), Fits And Starts (Wyatt Cenac), The Untimely Gift (Best Supporting Actress Nominee), Another Earth (Brit Marling), Off Track Betty (Award-winning short), The Foxy Merkins (2014 Sundance Finalist).
TV: Hulu’s “The Path”, “K & A” (Jonathan Katz), “Law & Order”, “Search Party”, “Difficult People”, “Royal Pains”, “Lipstick Jungle”, “All My Children” and “Guiding Light”.
Diane is proud to have collaborated in the development of new American and foreign plays at Hartford Stage, McCarter Theatre, Soho Rep, New Georges, Bushwick Starr, Billie Holiday Theatre, The Lark, La MaMa, New Dramatists and Cape Cod Theatre Project.
Select theatre credits include Frank McGuinness’s Gates of Gold, (59E59), The Bird Sanctuary (Pittsburgh Public & Alabama Shakespeare), String of Pearls (PlayMakers), Mount Allegro (GeVa Theatre), Lost in Yonkers (Tour/Emanuel Azenberg, Producer), and a list of wonderful characters (Lady Bracknell, Mrs. Mannerly, Mrs. Warren, and Sister Aloysius) to name a few.
Outside of acting Diane gets great satisfaction from helping young actors and has taught at NYU and is on faculty at AMDA.
RECENT CREDITS : include Law and Order, and the films The Cookbook and Homebody.
Aaron J. Sandler
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