Biography
Kristoffer Diaz is a playwright and educator. His full-length plays (Welcome to Arroyo's and Guernica) have been developed and performed at Arielle Tepper's Summer Play Festival, The Hip-Hop Theater Festival, The Lark, The Donmar Warehouse (London), South Coast Repertory, The Tank, Manhattan Theatre Source, New York University, The Knitting Factory, The Public Theater, and New Dramatists. Guernica was selected as a semi-finalist for the 2006 O'Neill National Playwrights Conference. He has served as an adjudicator for Florida Thespians, a dramaturg and instructor at the International Thespian Festival, and a workshop presenter at Future Aesthetics and the Latino Playwright Initiative.
Mr. Diaz is a recipient of the Van Lier Fellowship with New Dramatists and a Playwright Residency at London's Donmar Warehouse. He holds an MFA from New York University's Department of Dramatic Writing and a BA in Dramatic and Cultural Studies from the Gallatin School of Individualized Studies at NYU.
