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 attended The Workshop Theater's Playwriting Intensive, 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.

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 attended The Workshop Theater's Playwriting Intensive, 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.

Scripts

The Word of the Day

by Cori Diaz

Synopsis

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

Synopsis

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.

Mouthwater Lozenges

by Cori Diaz

Synopsis

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.

THE HAMPTONS

by Cori Diaz

Synopsis

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.

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

by Cori Diaz

Synopsis

ONE ACT: A young guitarist attempts to make an industry connection by sleeping with a famous guitarist to a world renowned popstar.

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

by Cori Diaz

Synopsis

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

Synopsis

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.

Angel Eyes

by Cori Diaz

Synopsis

TEN-MINUTE: A man hires a prostitute he's infatuated with in an attempt to lose his virginity.

TEN-MINUTE: A man hires a prostitute he's infatuated with in an attempt to lose his virginity.

YOUR SKIN AND YOUR TEETH

by Cori Diaz

Synopsis

TEN-MINUTE: A group of rich kids do drugs in a house in the woods.

TEN-MINUTE: A group of rich kids do drugs in a house in the woods.

Beautiful Fucking Cars That Don't Run Properly

by Cori Diaz

Synopsis

TEN-MINUTE: A gay couple has a heated argument in the car.

TEN-MINUTE: A gay couple has a heated argument in the car.

Rosebud Salve

by Cori Diaz

Synopsis

TEN-MINUTE: 2 bad lesbians on a date being bad.

TEN-MINUTE: 2 bad lesbians on a date being bad.

The Voice on the Telephone

by Cori Diaz

Synopsis

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.

The Midnight Sunrise

by Cori Diaz

Synopsis

TEN-MINUTE: Two comedians are being interviewed on a late night talk show. One of them learns a really disappointing lesson.

TEN-MINUTE: Two comedians are being interviewed on a late night talk show. One of them learns a really disappointing lesson.

Radio Speak

by Cori Diaz

Synopsis

FIVE-MINUTE: A man gets a rude awakening when the voice on the radio starts to talk to him.

FIVE-MINUTE: A man gets a rude awakening when the voice on the radio starts to talk to him.

Heaven Knows

by Cori Diaz

Synopsis

TEN-MINUTE: A young woman is interviewing to get into Heaven.

TEN-MINUTE: A young woman is interviewing to get into Heaven.