MARK DIACO
Melbourne · 2003 — present

Artist.

Actor. Director. Author and producer because
the work wasn’t going to make itself.

Photo by Alex Vaughan

Actor first. Trained in New York, on Melbourne stages since 2006. Nobody was going to hand him the part he wanted, so he built the room it could happen in. Co-founder of Human Sacrifice Theatre and The KIN Collective, founder of Corner Piece Pictures, director and producer when the work needed one. DOORMAN started on stage, became a film, and when the pandemic shut production down, became a graphic novel. The story refused to die with the budget.

There are two kinds of actors: the ones who want the red carpet, and the ones who want to be in the room where a good story gets told. Mark has always been the second kind. Quiet doesn’t mean small.

Years of being the artist in the room where the deal gets made teaches you exactly where artists get taken.

Why he built DOOR →
Who he is

“I have never been able to pick one medium, and now I’ve stopped apologising for it.”— Mark Diaco

2006
On Melbourne stages since
03
Creative companies founded
01
DOOR Studios
The record
{{ fxStage }}01 · On stage Theatre Every production, the roles, the casts and crews, and what the critics wrote. → {{ fxFilm }}02 · On screen Film Features and shorts, the Corner Piece slate, and the work in development. → {{ fxPage }}03 · On the page Comic The play that became a film that became a four-part graphic novel. Five editions. →
Interviews & features

Said elsewhere.

Conversations, profiles and features about the person. Production reviews live on the Theatre and Film pages.

Australian Arts Review · 2023

“I’m no good at sitting on my ass.”