ABSTRACT
This chapter features an interview with Kristoffer Diaz, a New Dramatists alumni playwright, screenwriter, and educator. His play The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama and has gone on to more than thirty productions nationwide. Other full-length titles include Welcome to Arroyo’s, Reggie Hoops, and The Unfortunates, as well as the film-to-stage musical Hercules (Disney/Public Theater) of late summer 2019. As a screenwriter, he has developed original television pilots for HBO and FX, written for the first season of Netflix’s GLOW, and adapted the musical Rent for Fox.
Kristoffer holds a BA from New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study, an MFA from NYU’s Department of Dramatic Writing, and an MFA from Brooklyn College’s Performing Arts Management program. He teaches playwriting at New York University.
