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KRISTOFFER DIAZ |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: William Morris Endeavor Entertainment, LLC represented by Derek Zasky |
Kristoffer Diaz is a playwright and educator living and working in Brooklyn. Full-length titles include The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, Welcome to Arroyos, Guernica , and #therevolution. Awards: 2011 New York Times Outstanding Playwright Award; finalist for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Drama; winner, 2011 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play; winner, 2011 OBIE Award, Best New American Play; and the inaugural Gail Merrifield Papp Fellowship from The Public Theater (2011). His work has been produced, commissioned, and developed at The Public Theater, Dallas Theater Center, Geffen Playhouse, Center Theatre Group, The Goodman, Second Stage, Victory Gardens, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Actors Theatre of Louisville, American Theater Company, The Atlantic, InterAct, Mixed Blood, The Orchard Project, Hip-Hop Theater Festival, The Lark, Summer Play Festival, Donmar Warehouse, and South Coast Repertory. He has written short work for the 24 Hour Musicals and the 24 Hour Plays on Broadway. Kristoffer was one of the creators of Brink!, the apprentice anthology show at the 2009 Humana Festival of New American Plays. He is a playwright-in-residence at Teatro Vista; a resident playwright at New Dramatists; a co-founder of the Unit Collective (Minneapolis); and a recipient of the Jerome Fellowship, the Future Aesthetics Artist Regrant and the Van Lier Fellowship (New Dramatists). Kristoffer holds a BA from New York Universitys Gallatin School of Individualized Study, an MFA from NYUs Department of Dramatic Writing, and an MFA from Brooklyn Colleges Performing Arts Management program.
Plays by Kristoffer Diaz
Brink! | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2009 | |||||
Company: | 33rd Humana Festival | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Humana Festival 2009: The Complete Plays, Playscripts Inc | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #112827 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | written by Lydia Diamond, Kristoffer Diaz, Greg Kotis, Deborah Zoe Laufer, Peter Sinn Nachtrieb, and Deborah Stein | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 25 Sep 2009 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-573-69967-2 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #59399 | |||
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Genre: | dramatic comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
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| Mace is a professional wrestler. He's a really good professional wrestler. He's not the champion though that's the impossibly charismatic Chad Deity. When Mace discovers a young Indian-American Brooklyn kid whose charisma rivals that of the champ, Mace decides to get him a job in the company. Only problem is, the boss has a very specific plan for the duo: put them onscreen as terrorists. Kristoffer Diaz's The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity is a serious minded comedy about wrestling, geopolitics, and raisin bread. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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F**king Vigwan (or Swag) | ||
| 1st Produced: | Cherry Lane Theatre - Studio | 29 Nov 2011 | ||||
Company: | Barefoot Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #134269 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 5 | ||
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Synopsis: | Vigwan is an awful man with impeccable swag. Greg, who has no swag, has had enough. But when one man vanquishes another with great swag, does the second man's swag become the first's own swag? And which one of those dead bodies is really a zombie? Blood spatter warning: audience members sitting in the front row choose seats at their own risk. Presented as part of Barefoot Theatre Company and East 3rd Productions' Stripped Festival of new plays about "sex, murder, revenge. . .and sex." | |||||
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Guernica | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Lark Play Development Center | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #59398 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A violent con man turned forgiveness-preaching, potentially violent Man Of God. His business-minded, formerly-estranged daughter. Her mysterious best friend. A meditation on religion, lust, and air-conditioning. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Missed Connections | ||
| 1st Produced: | Ars Nova, NY | 26 Jan 2010 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #83248 | |||
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Genre: | short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Part of a program of short plays and killer live music inspired by ads for the ones that got away. Featuring plays by Annie Baker, Bekah Brunstetter, Dylan Dawson, Kristoffer Diaz, Zayd Dohrn, Tasha Gordon-Solmon, Amy Herzog, Samuel D. Hunter, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Steven Levenson, Matthew Lopez, Janine Nabers, and Samuel Brett Williams, all of the play titles are taken directly from actual Craigslist Missed Connections ads. | |||||
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Sword Play: Speed Slice | ||
| 1st Produced: | Ars Nova | 01 Feb 2011 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #124455 | |||
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Genre: | short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | Part of The Wii Plays. This is an evening of original short plays and live music, inspired by the titles of Nintendo Wii games. The selections are: Wii Tennis by Molly Smith Metzler, directed by Lila Neugebauer, Barbie as the Island Princess by Tasha Gordon-Solmon, directed by Lila Neugebauer, Let's Tap by Janine Nabers, directed by Portia Krieger, Marvel Superhero Squad by Chad Beckim, directed by Stephen Brackett, Buck Fever by Samuel D. Hunter, directed by Portia Krieger, Alien Monster Bowling League by Matthew Lopez, directed by Laura Savia, Tomb Raider: Anniversary by Kara Lee Corthron, directed by Laura Savia, Burger Island by Gregory Moss, directed by Portia Krieger, All Star Cheer Squad by Jenny Connell, directed by Laura Savia, Sword Play: Speed Slice by Kristoffer Diaz, directed by Lila Neugebauer, Bob the Builder: Festival of Fun by Amy Herzog, directed by Stephen Brackett, and Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games by Joe Tracz, dir. by Stephen Brackett. | |||||
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Three | ||
| 1st Produced: | U Of M Rarig Center Proscenium, Minneapolis | 06 Aug 2010 | ||||
Company: | Minnesota Fringe Festival | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #127224 | |||
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Genre: | Ten minute play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The revolution starts quite by accident | |||||
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Trophy Thieves: A High School Love Story, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York University Festival of New Works (New York, NY, United States) | 2000 | ||||
Company: | Black Box New Play Festival | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #54924 | |||
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Genre: | 25-35 min Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | 5 males, 4 females (9-10 actors possible: 4-5 males, 4-5 females) | |||||
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Synopsis: | Kimmy's best friend Stella breaks her out of detention to help her rid the school of a horrible blight: the cheerleading trophy in the school library. During their farcical trophy-stealing mission, the two young women must outwit their teachers, their jock boyfriends, an undercover police officer, and the taunting voice of a mythical cheerleader. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Welcome to Arroyo's | ||
| 1st Produced: | South Coast Repertory's Hispanic Playwrights Project | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, Inc, 2011 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-8222-2523-2 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #59397 | |||
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Genre: | Hip-Hop Theater/Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | In New York City's fabled Lower East Side, Alejandro Arroyo and his sister Molly are taking very different paths to cope with their mother's recent death. Alejandro has torn down his mom's bodega, replacing it with a stylish new nightclub--that no one seems to go to. Molly has taken to the streets, writing her name in graffiti in the most inappropriate places. Meanwhile, college student and LES-expat Lelly Santiago might just have stumbled across a lost bit of hip-hop history that could change all of their lives. Two onstage DJs/ narrators/neighborhood homeboys spin the story in this hip-hop theater play. | |||||
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