Diana Cignoni (she/her)
Actor/Writer/Producer
Diana Cignoni is a German-American Film Director, Screen Writer and Actor. She worked on 600 shows of The Price is Right in Germany, before immigrating to the United States. Having been taught by Charlie Laughton (mentor to Al Pacino,) Penelope Allen, Mark Rydell and Martin Landau at The Actor’s Studio, Elisabeth Dillon at the HB Studio, NYC, Geraldine Baron and Lance Lane, Diana developed a unique voice. Diana won multiple awards as an actor and KOAN member of the Odyssey Theatre Ensemble under the direction of Ron Sossi. Cignoni was a Nominee for the 2019 Stage Raw Theatre Awards for Best Leading Performance in Faith Healer at the Odyssey Theatre, and was recently elected to the board of the Odyssey for the purpose of further enhancing the ensemble with her many artistic talents. Diana is also the author &/or director of 16 films, as well as multiple music videos, that have screened and been awarded scores of accolades at film festivals across the globe. She’s also appeared in numerous TV shows, including Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
In her films, Diana takes an approach that is both participatory and voyeuristic, striving to strip away artifice, reaching for true and authentic iconic moments of beauty and the surreal quality of random existence. In CASTLE WALLS she aims to do the same, in this, her first Hollywood Fringe solo stage show.
