Diana Amsterdam’s plays have been produced in New York, London, Berlin, Montreal, Los Angeles, and many American cities and been reviewed by the New York Times and Washington Post. Full-lengths and one-acts are published by Samuel French, Broadway Play Publishing, Playscripts Inc., and Smith and Kraus. She was a New York State Council on the Arts grant recipient and was selected for HBO’s Stage to Screen series. She won the BBC American Radio Play Contest leading to three radio play commissions from BBC Radio 4. Her screenplay won 1st Prize in NYWIFT’s 25th Anniversary Screenplay Contest. She optioned screenplays to the BBC, Working Title, and producers Jodie Burke, Dan Lupovitz, Jon Finn, and John E. Ferraro, and worked on projects with Marty Bregman, Wendy Oberman (BBC), Susan Seidelman, and Eric Styles. Amsterdam was Director of Writer Programs at TRU (Theater Resources Unlimited, Inc.) and a guest lecturer at NYWIFT and NYU Tisch School of the Arts. She passed away in 2019.