Diana Bentley (born 1984) is a Dora Award winning director, producer, dramaturge, actor, and writer. She is the Co-founder and former Co-Artistic Director of Coal Mine Theatre and is the Artistic Director and founder of The Vault Creation Lab. She's a graduate of UofT, LAMDA and the CFC Actor’s Conservatory. Her directing credits include the multi-Dora award winning People, Places & Things which she received the Dora for Outstanding Direction, multi-Dora nominated Dance Nation, and Yerma (Coal Mine Theatre). She has performed in many tv shows and films such as Handmaid’s Tale, Sort Of, Departure, Frontier, Locke and Key and The Expanse to name just a few and takes the stage regularly. Most recently she starred in: Hedda Gabler, Detroit, Knives in Hens, and Bull all for Coal Mine theatre. Her play The Day It All Went South starring Martha Burns debuts at Coal Mine Theatre in February of 2027.