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.
Kristoffer has also participated in Raw Impressions Music Theater Festival, Rebel Verses Youth Theater Festival, The Prospect Theater Dark Nights series, and the Gallatin Arts Festival at NYU. He has co-created several community-based theater projects at NYU and El Puente Academy for Peace and Justice. He has served as an adjudicator for Florida Thespians, and a workshop presenter at Future Aesthetics and the Latino Playwright Initiative.
Kristoffer 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.