Cori Diaz

Cori Diaz has had her plays workshopped with LaMama’s Experiments, SheNYC Arts, LaGuardia Performing Arts Center’s Rough Draft Festival, Ensemble Studio Theatre LA, Abingdon Theatre Company, The Bechdel Group, Playwrights on Park, and Concord Theatricals’ Off-Off Broadway Festival. She was a finalist for the Goldberg Play Prize and a semifinalist for the Ojai Playwrights Conference, O’Neill Playwrights Conference, the Stanley Drama Award, The Civilians’ R&D Group, and the Rattlestick Van Lier Fellowship. She is a member of the 2026 Moxie Arts Incubator, the 2026 24 Hour Plays: Nationals Cohort, the PlayPenn Playwrights Cohort, a recent member of Life Jacket Theatre’s Writer’s Room, and a recipient of the EST/Sloan commission. Her play, Carpal Tunnel, will have a workshop production at IRT...

Cori Diaz has had her plays workshopped with LaMama’s Experiments, SheNYC Arts, LaGuardia Performing Arts Center’s Rough Draft Festival, Ensemble Studio Theatre LA, Abingdon Theatre Company, The Bechdel Group, Playwrights on Park, and Concord Theatricals’ Off-Off Broadway Festival. She was a finalist for the Goldberg Play Prize and a semifinalist for the Ojai Playwrights Conference, O’Neill Playwrights Conference, the Stanley Drama Award, The Civilians’ R&D Group, and the Rattlestick Van Lier Fellowship. She is a member of the 2026 Moxie Arts Incubator, the 2026 24 Hour Plays: Nationals Cohort, the PlayPenn Playwrights Cohort, a recent member of Life Jacket Theatre’s Writer’s Room, and a recipient of the EST/Sloan commission. Her play, Carpal Tunnel, will have a workshop production at IRT Theater this October. coridiaz.com

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Scripts

Love Machine

by Cori Diaz

1
Cast Size
2
Genre
comedy,
satire

Jolie and Wilson go on a Hinge date.

Jolie and Wilson go on a Hinge date.

Carpal Tunnel

by Cori Diaz

2
Cast Size
7
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
drama,
experimental

It’s the vaguely present day in the year 20XX and master-of-the-novel Manna Benes wants you to meet her at the Roxbury Motel. Is this the worst thing that ever happened to you? Or is that writer’s block? A passion play and a family play and a tragicomedy and a history play and a surrealist play and a transgressive novel and an ekphrastic poem and a children’s book and a meditation on dance and a dance on...

It’s the vaguely present day in the year 20XX and master-of-the-novel Manna Benes wants you to meet her at the Roxbury Motel. Is this the worst thing that ever happened to you? Or is that writer’s block? A passion play and a family play and a tragicomedy and a history play and a surrealist play and a transgressive novel and an ekphrastic poem and a children’s book and a meditation on dance and a dance on meditation and an instruction manual and a coupon book and a pornographic magazine and a holy text. And a love story.

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Can You Dance the Merengue?

by Cori Diaz

4
Cast Size
2
Genre
comedy,
period

The year is 2006 and the event is Latina Lesbian Chess Night at The Cafe Club in the Castro District. A girl meets another girl who's a missing person and holding a pie.

The year is 2006 and the event is Latina Lesbian Chess Night at The Cafe Club in the Castro District. A girl meets another girl who's a missing person and holding a pie.

18 West 11th Street

by Cori Diaz

2
Cast Size
5
Genre
docudrama/historic,
period,
political,
satire

18 West 11th Street is a straight play about the real-life members of the anti-racist, anti-Vietnam war student activism group, The Weathermen (later renamed The Weather Underground.) Formed in the 60s, they were a militant organization consisting exclusively of rich white college students who felt powerless in the midst of all the violence in the world. Five of them hunkered down in an apartment in Greenwich...

18 West 11th Street is a straight play about the real-life members of the anti-racist, anti-Vietnam war student activism group, The Weathermen (later renamed The Weather Underground.) Formed in the 60s, they were a militant organization consisting exclusively of rich white college students who felt powerless in the midst of all the violence in the world. Five of them hunkered down in an apartment in Greenwich Village and decided to build a bomb to plant at Fort Dix, a military base, in an act of protest against the world. However, since they were all academics who didn’t know what they were doing, the bomb accidentally detonated in the apartment, killing three of them. 18 West 11th Street takes us through the days leading up to the accidental detonation as these five twenty-somethings cluelessly build bombs.

*Most recent draft available upon request*

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The Word of the Day

by Cori Diaz

2
Cast Size
2—5
Genre
drama,
experimental

FULL-LENGTH: A famous linguist is driven to madness when she becomes convinced she's being communicated with via word of the day.

FULL-LENGTH: A famous linguist is driven to madness when she becomes convinced she's being communicated with via word of the day.

Celebrity Syndrome

by Cori Diaz

Cast Size
5
Genre
dark comedy,
drama,
experimental,
period,
satire

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...

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.

*Newest draft available upon request*

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Mouthwater Lozenges

by Cori Diaz

2
Cast Size
2
Genre
drama

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.

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.

Nightlife, or The Elusive Silk Dress

by Cori Diaz

1
Cast Size
2
Genre
drama,
experimental,
science fiction

TEN-MINUTE: Two men find themselves trapped in a hotel room.

TEN-MINUTE: Two men find themselves trapped in a hotel room.

SABOTAGE

by Cori Diaz

1
Cast Size
4
Genre
dark comedy,
experimental,
political,
satire,
science fiction

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.

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.

The Voice on the Telephone

by Cori Diaz

1
Cast Size
2—3
Genre
experimental,
satire,
science fiction

TEN-MINUTE: A couple finds out about their infidelities through an anonymous phone call.

TEN-MINUTE: A couple finds out about their infidelities through an anonymous phone call.