Broadway BUZZ

(she/her) With striking versatility in roles from Anita in West Side Story to Fosca in Passion, in plays by John Patrick Shanley to Shakespeare, Diaz has been featured on stages across the country and abroad. After performing Anita in the New York City Ballet's West Side Story Suites, she was hand-picked by both Jerome Robbins and Arthur Laurents for the National Tour where her breakout performance garnered critical acclaim across the country and internationally, as well as Chicago’s Joseph Jefferson Award and St. Louis's Kevin Klein Award. Her Broadway credits and cast albums include Seussical (Bird Girl) and the revival of The Man of La Mancha (Antonia) in which she covered the role of Aldonza, performing opposite Brian Stokes Mitchell. Off-Broadway shows include Susan in tick, tick...BOOM!, Sondheim’s Saturday Night (Second Stage), Esmeralda Agron in The Capeman (Public Theater, directed Diane Paulus), and the acclaimed revival of Jacques Brel Is Alive And Well And Living In Paris (Zipper Theatre). Her recent New York credits include Rafaela in Grand Hotel (Encores!, directed by Josh Rhodes), and in January 2023 she made her Carnegie Hall debut in concert with New Kid Joey McIntyre. Diaz has also performed extensively in Washington DC where she was named “one of the top 10 biggest stars in Washington DC theatre” (The Washingtonian). Regional highlights include: Petra in A Little Night Music (Kennedy Center), the titular role in Kiss Of The Spider Woman (Signature Theatre), originating the role of Betty #3 in Jen Silverman's Collective Rage  (Woolly Mammoth), Jacques Brel… (Helen Hayes Award), Jenny in The Threepenny Opera (Helen Hayes nomination), Mrs. Gibbs in Our Town (Shakespeare Theatre), Mariana in Measure For Measure (Shakespeare Theatre), Monica P. Miller in Rooms (Helen Hayes Award), Sally in Follies (San Francisco Playhouse, Bay Area Critics nomination), Velma in Chicago (the Muny, St. Louis Critics Award nomination), and Gloria Fajardo in On Your Feet (the Muny, St. Louis Critics Award). Most notably, she took home her third Helen Hayes Award for her “obsessively watchable and gorgeously sung” (Washington Post) performance as Fosca in Signature Theatre’s production of Sondheim's Passion. Film and television credits include Every Little Step, Oz, Law & Order, SVU, The Jury, Nurse Jackie, Damages, and recurring on FBI (CBS) as Detective Cantrell. Diaz is represented by DGRW.