Diego Cristian Saldaña
Diego Cristian Saldaña is a musician, performer, playwright, and writer from Mexico City. He has an MA in Performance Studies from NYU and a BA in Dramatic Literature and Theater from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). His pieces have been performed at Playwrights Week, National Theater Showcase (MNT), and National Arts Encounter (ENARTES) in Mexico. He has recorded three albums with Bifurcata and Sí Nena No. In 2010 he created the literary web project “Soundtrack Invisible,” which was performed as a live concert at Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC). In 2016 his piece Dissenssus was selected to close the V Latin-American Poetry Festival in NYC, it was later published by Interim Magazine of Poetry and Poetics, nominated as best piece of 2018, and selected for Museo ExTeresa Arte Actual’s “Modos de oir” exhibition. He is the director of Compañía CroMagnon whose video “The Subject Object” was selected for the 2017 Next Festival of Performance in Torino. He is currently performing the theater piece Musth, which has toured nationally with the support of the Fomento y Coinversiones (FONCA) grant. In 2019 he received the National Young Literature Award “José Revueltas” (Tierra Adentro, CONACULTA) for his novel Tiene la noche un árbol.