Cori Diaz

Cori Diaz

Cori Diaz is a performer, writer, and a current student at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts where she majors in Dramatic Writing. For playwriting, she has been a finalist in Hartford Stage’s Write On!, a selected candidate in Middlebury College’s Young Writers’ Conference at Breadloaf Campus, and a Selected Playwright at the Eugene O’ Neill Theater Center’s Young Playwrights Festival. She has also...
Cori Diaz is a performer, writer, and a current student at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts where she majors in Dramatic Writing. For playwriting, she has been a finalist in Hartford Stage’s Write On!, a selected candidate in Middlebury College’s Young Writers’ Conference at Breadloaf Campus, and a Selected Playwright at the Eugene O’ Neill Theater Center’s Young Playwrights Festival. She has also done training for improv, sketch, and stand-up with The Onion, People’s Improv Theater, John Crane Sketch, The Groundlings, and Second City Chicago.

Plays

  • Celebrity Syndrome
    FULL LENGTH: Pegasus is a five-piece punk girlband featuring Velvet Valentine on lead vocals, Mercury Martinez on drums, Carmen Palmer on bass, Laura Magnum Weeks on guitar, and Pebbles Crimson on keys. On the eve of a big interview with the show Good Morning, New York! they discover that they're about to be torn to shreds on the show due to some pictures that had leaked at the last minute of them having...
    FULL LENGTH: Pegasus is a five-piece punk girlband featuring Velvet Valentine on lead vocals, Mercury Martinez on drums, Carmen Palmer on bass, Laura Magnum Weeks on guitar, and Pebbles Crimson on keys. On the eve of a big interview with the show Good Morning, New York! they discover that they're about to be torn to shreds on the show due to some pictures that had leaked at the last minute of them having queer sex with another popular girlband.
  • Mouthwater Lozenges
    ONE ACT/HALF HOUR: In an attempt to get him to open up, a home aide develops an unhealthy and codependent relationship with his paraplegic patient.
  • THE HAMPTONS
    FULL LENGTH: Despite her morals and modest upbringing, a young woman befriends a group of rich, vain, and temperamental young men living in the Hamptons. She soon finds out that not a single one of them are who they claim to be.
  • Martinis Around The House
    ONE ACT: A young guitarist attempts to make an industry connection by sleeping with a famous guitarist to a world renowned popstar.
  • Nightlife, or The Elusive Silk Dress
    TEN-MINUTE: Two men find themselves trapped in a hotel room.
  • SABOTAGE
    TEN-MINUTE: In an effort to prove that the news has become desensitised, saboteurs Link and Ace decide to mess with the teleprompter during a live taping of Channel 6 News at 9. Though perhaps they expect too much out of shallow co-anchors Marjorie Commons and Casey Healy.
  • Angel Eyes
    TEN-MINUTE: A man hires a prostitute he's infatuated with in an attempt to lose his virginity.
  • YOUR SKIN AND YOUR TEETH
    TEN-MINUTE: A group of rich kids do drugs in a house in the woods.
  • Beautiful Fucking Cars That Don't Run Properly
    TEN-MINUTE: A gay couple has a heated argument in the car.
  • Rosebud Salve
    TEN-MINUTE: 2 bad lesbians on a date being bad.
  • The Voice on the Telephone
    TEN-MINUTE: A couple finds out about their infidelities through an anonymous phone call.
  • The Midnight Sunrise
    TEN-MINUTE: Two comedians are being interviewed on a late night talk show. One of them learns a really disappointing lesson.
  • Radio Speak
    FIVE-MINUTE: A man gets a rude awakening when the voice on the radio starts to talk to him.
  • Heaven Knows
    TEN-MINUTE: A young woman is interviewing to get into Heaven.