KRISTOFFER DIAZ is a playwright and educator.  His full-length plays (Welcome to Arroyo's, Guernica, and The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity) have been developed and performed at Arielle Tepper's Summer Play Festival, The Hip-Hop Theater Festival, The Lark, The Donmar Warehouse (London), South Coast Repertory, The Tank, Manhattan Theatre Source, New York University, The Knitting Factory, The Public Theater, and New Dramatists.  Guernica was selected as a semi-finalist for the 2006 O'Neill National Playwrights Conference.

Kristoffer has also participated in Raw Impressions Music Theater Festival, Rebel Verses Youth Theater Festival, The Prospect Theater Dark Nights series, and the Gallatin Arts Festival at NYU.  He has co-created several community-based theater projects at El Puente Academy for Peace and Justice and NYU.  He has served as an adjudicator for Florida Thespians, and a workshop presenter/panelist at the International Thespian Festival, Future Aesthetics, Dreaming the Americas (No Passport) and the Latino Playwright Initiative.

Kristoffer is a recipient of the Van Lier Fellowship with New Dramatists and a Playwright Residency at London’s Donmar Warehouse.    He holds an MFA from New York University’s Department of Dramatic Writing and a BA in Dramatic and Cultural Studies from the Gallatin School of Individualized Studies at NYU.  He is currently enrolled in Brooklyn College's Performing Arts Management MFA program, where he coordinates the Borough as Classroom program.

Kristoffer's first book of original poems (Fly Girls and Other Poems) is available at www.lulu.com/kristofferdiaz. He has edited two books of student poetry, one created at the Euclid Public Library and one created at the Cuyahoga County Juvenile Detention Center.  Kristoffer has written for The Brooklyn Rail.  His one-act play The Trophy Thieves: A High School Love Story is published by Playscripts.  He is a member of The Dramatists Guild of America, Inc.