Noah Diaz

Noah Diaz

Noah Diaz is a playwright from the Iowa/Nebraska border. His plays have been developed with La Jolla Playhouse, Baltimore Center Stage, The Playwrights Realm, The Sol Project, Two River Theater, Howlround Latinx Theater Commons, Seven Devils New Play Foundry, and WildWind Performance Lab. He is a recipient of the ASCAP Cole Porter Prize, a five-time recipient of playwriting awards from the Kennedy Center, and...
Noah Diaz is a playwright from the Iowa/Nebraska border. His plays have been developed with La Jolla Playhouse, Baltimore Center Stage, The Playwrights Realm, The Sol Project, Two River Theater, Howlround Latinx Theater Commons, Seven Devils New Play Foundry, and WildWind Performance Lab. He is a recipient of the ASCAP Cole Porter Prize, a five-time recipient of playwriting awards from the Kennedy Center, and is currently under commission from La Jolla Playhouse, Great Plains Theatre Conference, Manhattan Theatre Club/Sloan, Baltimore Center Stage, and Audible/Amazon Studios. MFA: Yale School of Drama.

Plays

  • You Will Get Sick by Noah Diaz
    Recommendations: 3
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    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama + 1 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama, satire
    It starts with your balance, but it begins to spread, as these things often do. Your legs numb, your grip-strength weakens, your arms go rigid and hard. Before long, you’re hiring a stranger to say aloud what you can't bear to say yourself: that you got sick. A recipient of the Kennedy Center’s Jean Kennedy Smith Playwriting Award, YOU WILL GET SICK is a new play in second-person about learning how to live...
    It starts with your balance, but it begins to spread, as these things often do. Your legs numb, your grip-strength weakens, your arms go rigid and hard. Before long, you’re hiring a stranger to say aloud what you can't bear to say yourself: that you got sick. A recipient of the Kennedy Center’s Jean Kennedy Smith Playwriting Award, YOU WILL GET SICK is a new play in second-person about learning how to live within your body as you find your way home.
  • Richard & Jane & Dick & Sally by Noah Diaz
    Recommendations: 4
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    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama + 1 more
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    Keyword: grief, Deaf + 2 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama, movement/physical
    Keyword: grief, Deaf, deaf character, family
    The classic “Dick & Jane” characters from the ubiquitous 1950s children’s books are grown-up and struggling to stay afloat in a home fractured by grief. Newly widowed Dick (now going by Richard) is raising his two children, Dick Jr. and Sally (who's deaf), while trying to manage a terminal illness that will inevitably leave them orphans. When he calls home his estranged sister, Jane, the family must...
    The classic “Dick & Jane” characters from the ubiquitous 1950s children’s books are grown-up and struggling to stay afloat in a home fractured by grief. Newly widowed Dick (now going by Richard) is raising his two children, Dick Jr. and Sally (who's deaf), while trying to manage a terminal illness that will inevitably leave them orphans. When he calls home his estranged sister, Jane, the family must reconcile and make peace with their shared and misunderstood histories before it’s time for him to go. A recipient of the Kennedy Center’s Jean Kennedy Smith Playwriting Award, RICHARD & JANE & DICK & SALLY is a dramatic comedy about brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers, and the strained tethers that bind them all together.
  • Rock Egg Spoon by Noah Diaz
    Recommendations: 6
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    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 3 more
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    Keyword: lewis & clark, Bigfoot + 2 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, docudrama/historic, period, satire
    Keyword: lewis & clark, Bigfoot, Deaf, America
    It's 1804 and President Tommy J has ordered Louis N. Clark on a voyage to map America's uncharted territory. Aided by Bigfoot, Sacagawea, and his own bravado, Louis makes his way across America, discovering and rediscovering everything that has been lost and left behind in the unbearable hardship that we call These United States. A recipient of the Kennedy Center’s Jean Kennedy Smith Playwriting Award...
    It's 1804 and President Tommy J has ordered Louis N. Clark on a voyage to map America's uncharted territory. Aided by Bigfoot, Sacagawea, and his own bravado, Louis makes his way across America, discovering and rediscovering everything that has been lost and left behind in the unbearable hardship that we call These United States. A recipient of the Kennedy Center’s Jean Kennedy Smith Playwriting Award, ROCK EGG SPOON is a modern American epic about privilege, sadness, and giving credit where credit is due.
  • The Juniors by Noah Diaz
    Recommendations: 4
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    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 1 more
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    Keyword: high school
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, satire
    Keyword: high school
    A class of high school juniors are tasked with a simple Home Ec assignment: parent a sack of flour for a week or fail. When the flour babies begin dying one by one, the students stop at nothing to ensure that they, and the pretend children they bore, are the last ones standing. A play with war, carnage, and genocide, THE JUNIORS is a pitch black comedy about the ambitious and cut-throat world of high school...
    A class of high school juniors are tasked with a simple Home Ec assignment: parent a sack of flour for a week or fail. When the flour babies begin dying one by one, the students stop at nothing to ensure that they, and the pretend children they bore, are the last ones standing. A play with war, carnage, and genocide, THE JUNIORS is a pitch black comedy about the ambitious and cut-throat world of high school Home Economics and the lengths we'll go to in order to protect what we think is ours.
  • House by Noah Diaz
    Cast: 
    3–10
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    Genre: adventure
    Genre: adventure
    When your grandfather never returns from his adventure around the world, you pack a bag and begin your search to find him. As time slips by, you realize that perhaps what you were looking for could have been found at home the whole time. HOUSE is an epic and poignant short play about growing up, leaving home, and knowing when it’s time to go back.
  • The Home Shopping Network Pageant Play by Noah Diaz
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: dark comedy, pageant + 1 more
    Genre: dark comedy, pageant, satire
    Bobbi Anne King is America’s favorite Home Shopping Network host!
    Bobbi Anne King is a good wife!
    Bobbi Anne King is a mogul!
    Bobbi Anne King is a star!
    But when Bobbi Anne King catches her husband having an affair with a man in her guest bedroom, she will use her platform on live national television to come to terms with what it means to reach the pinnacle of success and realize...
    Bobbi Anne King is America’s favorite Home Shopping Network host!
    Bobbi Anne King is a good wife!
    Bobbi Anne King is a mogul!
    Bobbi Anne King is a star!
    But when Bobbi Anne King catches her husband having an affair with a man in her guest bedroom, she will use her platform on live national television to come to terms with what it means to reach the pinnacle of success and realize you are all alone. THE HOME SHOPPING NETWORK PAGEANT PLAY is a pitch black comedy with shoes! crying! husbands! wives! bedspreads! emotions! dancing! glitter! swimwear! and a good old-fashioned dance-off!
  • The Guadalupes by Noah Diaz
    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: biography, drama
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    Keyword: Latinx, Mexican + 2 more
    Genre: biography, drama
    Keyword: Latinx, Mexican, hispanic, family
    To come to terms with what it means to share a history with a family he barely knows, a young playwright hires his classmate to roleplay as himself and his dead grandmother. THE GUADALUPES is a meta-theatric exploration of history, memory, family, sadness, the importance of naming things, and the hard swallow of accepting our ancestry.
  • The Swindlers: A True-ish Tall Tale by Noah Diaz
    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: adventure, comedy + 2 more
    Genre: adventure, comedy, holiday, period
    Marie is plagued by the winter blues. Her boyfriend’s a dud, her bank statements are piling up, and her house suddenly foreclosed. Oh, and the FBI is looking for her father, a notorious con man on the run for swindling families and businesses out of their money. When Marie discovers that her house has foreclosed because of him, she tracks him down and blackmails him into a cross-country road trip to return the...
    Marie is plagued by the winter blues. Her boyfriend’s a dud, her bank statements are piling up, and her house suddenly foreclosed. Oh, and the FBI is looking for her father, a notorious con man on the run for swindling families and businesses out of their money. When Marie discovers that her house has foreclosed because of him, she tracks him down and blackmails him into a cross-country road trip to return the stolen funds before the foreclosure is finalized. Loosely inspired by the real-life exploits of the playwright’s grandfather, THE SWINDLERS: A TRUE-ISH TALL TALE is a raucous new road-trip comedy about redemption, reconciliation, and the unspoken rewards of surviving time with family.
  • All the Men Who've Frightened Me by Noah Diaz
    Cast: 
    6–100
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    Genre: comedy, drama + 1 more
    Genre: comedy, drama, experimental
    When Ty’s wife, Nora, learns that she can’t conceive a child, he makes the difficult decision to work his way off his testosterone to carry the baby himself.
  • Skunk Misery Road by Noah Diaz
    Cast: 
    11
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    Genre: adaptation, comedy + 2 more
    Genre: adaptation, comedy, dark comedy, drama
    A "thematic understanding" of King Lear, SKUNK MISERY ROAD is a brutal dark comedy set against the backdrop of a family-owned strip club in the Bible Belt at the height of the AIDS epidemic.