ABOUT
Gerardo Díaz Sánchez (he/they/she) is a NYC-based scenic designer from Guayama, Puerto Rico.
Live Performance credits include: Hispanic Heritage Awards (The Kennedy Center Opera House), Notes on Killing Seven Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Board Members (Soho Rep), El Coquí Espectacular, Pride and Prejudice (Long Wharf Theatre), Las Borinqueñas (EST), El Huracán by Charise Castro Smith (Yale Repertory Theater), La casa de la laguna (GALA Hispanic Theatre), Romeo and Juliet (Two River Theater), Twelfth Night (Two River Theater), TJ Loves Sally 4 Ever (JACK), Alex & Emma (P.R. Theatre Lab).
Film credits include: A West Side Story Story (Tribeca Festival 2025), 31 Candles (Good Trouble LLC), Talk Shit (Boyfriends), So, Boom (Good Trouble LLC), Killing Castro (Romulus Entertainment), Sister Jane goes to the Library (Yale Film Studies).
Gerardo received their MFA from the Yale School of Drama, and BA in environmental design from the School of Architecture at the University of Puerto Rico, with a double major in theatre design and techniques.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS / AWARDS
Tribeca Film Festival Official Selection: A West Side Story Story (2025)
HOLA Award for Outstanding Achievement in Theatrical Design (2024)
1/52 Project Recipient (2023)
Ming Cho Lee Scholarship (2018)
CONTACT
email: gerardo.diaz.sanchez.d@gmail.com
instagram: @gerardo.diaz.sanchez