Lynea Diaz-Hagan

About Lynea Diaz-Hagan

Lynea Diaz-Hagan is a writer, director, vocalist, composer, and producer who creates work for stage, screen, and multimedia installation.

As a playwright-director, she has received a Literary Artist Commission from the San Francisco Arts Commission (2019), as well as development and production grants from Theatre Bay Area (2021, 2018) and the Zellerbach Family Foundation (2019). She is currently developing an opera libretto, TIAMAT, with the support of a CA$H grant from Theatre Bay Area. Her play, THE EDUCATION OF ADDY JIMÉNEZ, was a Finalist in ScreenCraft's 2021 Stage Play Competition.

Lynea's career in theater production also includes roles as General Management Associate and Assistant to Producer Barry Weissler for the Broadway productions of CHICAGO—The Musical and ANNIE GET YOUR GUN. Most recently, she was the assistant director on GROUNDHOG DAY—The Musical, directed by Suzi Damilano at San Francisco Playhouse.

In the realm of installation, her approach blends sound, processed voice, text, photography, and found art to create experiential artifacts of natural and imagined environments. Her pieces, "Coulterville" and "Dendrochronology: A Work in Progress," which both explore the California landscape and anthropogenic ecological disruption, were developed with the support of the North Street Collective (Mendocino County), where she was an artist-in-residence in 2016 and 2014.

Lynea is also an established new music and jazz vocalist, with a focus on developing collaborative work with fellow musicians and choreographers. In 2018, she debuted OCEAN, an innovative 35-minute electroacoustic jazz chamber musical that blends live performance with sound installation. Currently, she is adapting this piece into an animated short film. Other notable works include BAHARANEH and PARADOX OF SPRING, developed and performed with Persian-tuned pianist Ramin Zoufonoun.

As a filmmaker, Lynea has produced several narrative and experimental shorts. These days, she's experimenting with film collage and creating social justice PSAs with commercial stock footage.

Lynea holds a BA in English from Yale University, an MFA in Screenwriting from UCLA's School of Theater, Film & TV, and an MA in Music (Jazz Voice) from San Jose State University. While at UCLA, her screenplay, THINK PRETTY, was honored with the Carl David Memorial Award.

After fifteen years in San Francisco and Silicon Valley, Lynea and her family have recently relocated to Los Angeles County.