Kristoffer Diaz has worked with television networks like HBO, FX, Fox, ESPN, and Netflix.
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21 Facts About Kristoffer Diaz
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Kristoffer Diaz currently teaches at New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study.
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Kristoffer Diaz is the Head of Admissions and an associate professor at New York University Tisch School of the Arts.
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Kristoffer Diaz has lived and worked in the New York City area, which has served as the setting for a number of his works.
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Kristoffer 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.
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Later in 2015, Kristoffer Diaz was the first recipient of the New Playwright Residency Program Award from Temple University and commissioned to write a play for the Department of Theater.
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Kristoffer Diaz collaborated directly with staff and the student body, "conducting master classes for students in the MFA playwriting program and observing the work of the MFA acting students".
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In 2017, Kristoffer Diaz received a Tisch School of the Arts Dean's Faculty Grant to conduct research at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics conference.
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Kristoffer Diaz is recognized as an alumni playwright for New Dramatists from 2011 to 2018.
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Kristoffer Diaz has worked at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts for almost ten years and has worked with many theaters throughout his time as a professor and director.
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In collaboration with State Theatre New Jersey, Kristoffer Diaz made the script for his 2020 play The Bridge available for home audiences to cast and produce as part of the Play at Home project.
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Also during COVID-19 shutdowns, in August 2020, Kristoffer Diaz collaborated on and directed a virtual reading of The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity with the members from the original cast, including Justin Kirk.
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Kristoffer Diaz has written short work for The 24 Hour Plays and The 24 Hour Musicals on Broadway.
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Kristoffer Diaz wrote the full-length play Welcome to Arroyo's, a hip-hop influenced comedy-drama about a Latinx family set in New York City's Lower East Side centered on themes of gentrification, authenticity, and individual obligation to culture.
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Kristoffer Diaz collaborated with Jon Beavers, Casey Hurt, Ian Merrigan and Ramiz Monsef on the musical The Unfortunates.
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Kristoffer Diaz was credited with adding additional materials to the war-set musical.
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Kristoffer Diaz wrote The Upstairs Concierge, a satirical comedy about celebrity culture following an upstairs concierge at a hotel.
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In 2019, Kristoffer Diaz wrote the book for The Public Theater's Hercules, a stage adaptation of the 1997 Disney film, with music by Alan Menken, lyrics by David Zippel, and choreography by Chase Brock.
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Kristoffer Diaz adapted the Jonathan Larson musical Rent into a partially live show, Rent: Live, for Fox.
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