Diego del Río is a stage director, acting coach, film and opera director, author, and acting instructor. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Theater, graduating with honors from the University of the Americas in Puebla. He won the 2024 Ariel Award for Best Debut Film for his movie “Todo el Silencio” produced by Luis Salinas, Inna Payán, María Ayub, and Adriana Llabrés. It was nominated for six Ariel Awards, including Best Film, and won four of them. He recently finished filming his second movie and is currently in post-production.
His work in theater has earned him numerous nominations and accolades from theater critics in the categories of Best Play, Best Direction, Best Adaptation, and Breakout Director, including the APT and ACPT Awards and the 2019 METRO Award for Best Director for the play “CASI NORMALES.” In 2021, he won the METRO Award for Best Theater Project Presented in Digital Format for the film “SUBTLE COORDINATES” , which he also authored. And in 2023, the project “THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT” which he directed with Iván Maraña, won the METRO Award for Best One-Person Show. In 2016, he was named by Editorial Expansión as one of the “Mexican leaders who are changing Mexico.”
She made her debut at the Palacio de Bellas Artes with the world premiere of the opera “JUANA SIN CIELO” by Alberto García Demestres for the Mexican soprano María Katzarava.
He is the founder and artistic director of the SUNLAND Performance Conservatory.
In addition to his work as a fiction director, he is a coach and trainer for people who want to develop public speaking skills, reconnect presence and develop an awareness of the body and voice in the transmission of messages to the public. This has led him to coach CEO's, Mexican Congressmen, YouTubers, leaders of Google Mexico, Grupo Posadas, teachers and "non-actors" around Mexico and Latin America.
