Diana Polansky (she/her)
Board Member

Diana Polansky is a storyteller, social activist, and digital nomad. She holds a BFA from NYU Tisch (Film Production & Dramatic Writing) and an MFA from The New School (Theatre & Playwriting). After a decade of living in Israel/Palestine and working in international tech marketing, she returns to the Bay Area arts sector driven by a lifelong commitment to building bridges across economic, political, and racial divides through theatre and storytelling.

Her work  largely explores class, conflict, and trauma within the family and community. Favorite projects include: writing plays about her self-estranged grandfather, life on kibbutz next to Gaza during wartime, and a forbidden bond between a teenage girl and a widower on the verge of losing everything. She has worked with theaters throughout the Bay Area as an arts administrator and production staff member, dramaturged and assistant directed GIGANTIC, world premiere about sexual violence at camp through the foolsFURY apprenticeship program, and traveled across Israel, Palestine, and the greater MENA region as a peacebuilder with YaLa Academy's Citizen Journalism program