Diane M. Barnes, M.D. is a writer, actor, speaker and retired radiologist. A graduate of Stanford, and Yale School of Medicine, she trained at UCSF and Stanford, and practiced at Kaiser. After a brain hemorrhage, Diane segued from medicine to performance. Her stroke and recovery is chronicled in her first award winning solo show, My Stroke of Luck. Now a Meisner trained actor, Diane studied improvisation at BATS and with Keith Johnstone, and solo performance with Anna Deveare Smith. Her latest show, Not One of Us, about the intersection of class, race, privilege, gender and medicine in her life, premiered to great acclaim at the recent Playground Solo Performance Festival on Zoom. 

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• Author and performer of My Stroke of Luck
• Website: https://DianeBarnes415.com