Diane Exavier
is a writer, theatermaker, and educator who creates performances and public programs that invite audiences to participate in a theater that rejects passive reception. Dispatching from the Caribbean Diaspora, Diane explores what she calls the 4L’s: love, loss, legacy, and land.
Oscillating between performance and poetry, her work has been presented by The New Group, National Black Theatre, BRIC Arts, Haiti Cultural Exchange, Sibiu's International Theater Festival, Bowery Poetry Club, and more. Her writing appears in Staatstheater Hannover Magazine, The Atlas Review, and The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind, amongst other publications. Her poetry collection, The Math of Saint Felix was recently published by The 3rd Thing Press. Diane is a 2021 Jerome Foundation Finalist and is currently working on a Sloan Foundation new play commission in partnership with Manhattan Theatre Club. She is a 2023 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Poetry.
As an educator, Diane’s pedagogy focuses on creating spaces of care and self-expression with young people. Some organizations she has worked with include ArtsConnection, Community MusicWorks, New Urban Arts, Providence Public Library, RISD Museum, and The Whitney Museum of American Art. Diane studied Theater & Dance at Amherst College and holds an MFA in Writing for Performance from Brown University. She lives and works in Brooklyn.