Kristoffer Diaz

Kristoffer Díaz
EducationNew York University (BA) (MFA)
Brooklyn College (MFA)
Occupation(s)Playwright, screenwriter, educator
Websitekristofferdiaz.com

Kristoffer Díaz is an American playwright, screenwriter, and educator. In 2010, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity. The play gave him the Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Play and the New York Times Outstanding Playwright Award. In 2024 he received a nomination at the Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Musical with Alicia Keys for Off-Broadway production Hell's Kitchen.

He has worked with television networks like HBO, FX, Fox, ESPN, and Netflix. Díaz currently teaches at New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study.[1] Díaz is the Head of Admissions and an associate professor at New York University Tisch School of the Arts.[2] Diaz teaches dramatic writing and contemporary US theater. Diaz's primary focus is American plays and musicals.[3]

Diaz has lived and worked in the New York City area, which has served as the setting for a number of his works. Diaz has credited a 1992 experience seeing John Leguizamo's Spic-o-Rama at the Westside Theater in New York City as an early influence on his work as a Latino playwright.[4]

  1. ^ "Kristoffer Diaz". gallatin.nyu.edu.
  2. ^ "Kristoffer Diaz". tisch.nyu.edu. Retrieved January 9, 2022.
  3. ^ "American Blues to produce reading of Kristoffer Diaz's new play". Spotlight on Lake. 2021-02-02. Retrieved 2021-12-08.
  4. ^ The University of Michigan Press. Retrieved 2021-12-08. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)