Kristoffer Diaz

Kristoffer Díaz is an American playwright, screenwriter, and educator. In 2010, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity. The play gave him the Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Play and the New York Times Outstanding Playwright Award. He wrote the book for the jukebox musical Hell's Kitchen, for which he received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical as well as the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Musical, with Alicia Keys.

He has worked with television networks like HBO, FX, Fox, ESPN, and Netflix. Díaz currently teaches at New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study. Díaz is the Head of Admissions and an associate professor at New York University Tisch School of the Arts. Diaz teaches dramatic writing and contemporary US theater. Diaz's primary focus is American plays and musicals.

Diaz has lived and worked in the New York City area, which has served as the setting for a number of his works. 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.