Noah Diaz

Noah Diaz

Noah Diaz is an MFA candidate in Playwriting at the Yale School of Drama. His work has been produced and/or developed at Baltimore Center Stage, Playwrights Realm, The Sol Project, Two River Theater, the Kennedy Center, Yale School of Drama, Yale Cabaret, Howlround Latinx Theater Commons, Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, The Shelterbelt Theatre, 5th Wall Productions, Campfire Theatre Festival, and the Rose...
Noah Diaz is an MFA candidate in Playwriting at the Yale School of Drama. His work has been produced and/or developed at Baltimore Center Stage, Playwrights Realm, The Sol Project, Two River Theater, the Kennedy Center, Yale School of Drama, Yale Cabaret, Howlround Latinx Theater Commons, Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, The Shelterbelt Theatre, 5th Wall Productions, Campfire Theatre Festival, and the Rose Theater, among others. Awards/Fellowships include: three Kennedy Center Playwriting Awards, the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center NPC Finalist, 50PP Best Unproduced Latin@ Plays, Blue Ink Playwriting Award Finalist, and the Woodward/Newman Playwriting Award Finalist. He is currently under commission from the La Jolla Playhouse and the Great Plains Theatre Conference.

Plays

  • Richard & Jane & Dick & Sally by Noah Diaz
    Recommendations: 4
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    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama
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    Keyword: grief, Deaf + 2 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama
    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 binds them all together.
  • Rock Egg Spoon by Noah Diaz
    Recommendations: 3
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    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 2 more
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    Keyword: lewis & clark, Bigfoot + 2 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, docudrama/historic, period
    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, deafness, 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.
  • You Will Get Sick by Noah Diaz
    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama
    Genre: dark comedy, drama
    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 the only person who answered that flyer you glued on a telephone pole to say aloud what you cannot bear to say yourself: that you got sick. A recipient of the Kennedy Center’s Jean Kennedy Smith Playwriting Award, YOU WILL GET SICK...
    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 the only person who answered that flyer you glued on a telephone pole to say aloud what you cannot 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 giant birds, the musical Annie, money, going home, and facing the profoundly human task of saying out loud the things we cannot bring ourselves to say.
  • Sticky Floor 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, STICKY FLOOR is a brutal dark comedy set against the backdrop of a gay strip club in the Bible Belt at the height of the AIDS epidemic. IN-DEVELOPMENT.
  • 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.