cori diaz

Ok ok ok….yall…. She may keep us on track and call our thousands of cues and do a shy Björk impression from time to time but her answers here are pOeTrY!! Makes me wanna read the body lelectric again… Introducing our stage manager Cori Diaz! SM: 108 Notes (LaGuardia Rough Draft Festival), Caretake of Her (Loading Dock Theatre), 500 Rats (HERE Arts/Moxie Arts), LOBSTER (The Tank Core Production), cunnicularii (Good Apples Collective), A Seagull in the Hamptons (Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute), Close Up (Metropolitan Playhouse). ASM: RACECAR RACECAR RACECAR (The Hearth), QUEEN (Long Wharf Theatre).

Say hello to the brilliant, the incredible, the astonishing 2026 Moxie Incubator Cohort! We are beyond thrilled to welcome these nine artists into our community and champion their work throughout the year. The Moxie Incubator is our flagship development program - each year, 3 playwrights, 3 directors, and 3 line producers are selected from an open submission process. The nine selected artists then form a rotating cohort to at develops three world-premiere plays over three rounds: a virtual reading, a staged workshop, and finally, a workshop presentation production. The 2026 Moxie Incubator cohort includes playwrights Cori Diaz, Gina Femia, Amy Greenspan; directors Zagreb Budhwani, Molly Shayna Cohen, Liza Couser; and line producers Katie Brown, Andie Lerner, and Monika Orzeloweki. Managing Producer Madelyn Paquette and Artistic Director Margaret Lee lead Moxie Arts NY in their mission to produce new works centering stories of women, created by artists of historically excluded genders.

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Meet our first Liminal Salon artist, Cori Diaz, whose new play Carpal Tunnel turns a writer’s retreat inside out. ✍🏽 ABOUT THE PLAY Carpal Tunnel is a meta absurdist, semi-experimental dramedy about a group of writers who retreat to a kitschy motel in the Catskills to start a new literary movement. Their quest for authenticity and artistic greatness quickly spirals into chaos, truth-telling, and hallucinatory absurdity. The play asks whether suffering is truly necessary for great art, and what it means to be "interesting" in a world obsessed with artistic trauma. Cori brings humor, heart, and a sharp lens to the world of artists chasing meaning, chaos, and truth as reality bites back. ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT Cori Diaz (she/her) is a queer Latina playwright based in New York City. Her work has been developed with SheNYC Arts, LaGuardia Performing Arts Center's Rough Draft Festival, The Tank's LimeFest and Darkfest, RE/VENUE, The Workshop Theater, Ensemble Studio Theatre LA, Abingdon Theatre Company's Uplift the Page Festival, The Bechdel Group, and Playwrights on Park. She was a finalist for the LAMBDA Literary Writers Retreat and the Stanley Drama Award. Her ten-minute play Can You Dance the Merengue? was a finalist in Concord Theatricals' Off-Off Broadway Festival. She is a 2025 to 2026 recipient of the EST Sloan commission and holds a BFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU Tisch. More at coridiaz.com. We are proud to open this Salon with a voice as singular and electric as hers. 📍 The inaugural Liminal Salon will take place tomorrow, November 18th at 6PM! 📷 @jma___photography #TheLiminalSalon #TheLiminalTheatreCollective #EmbracingTheInBetween #ArtistsOfColor #NewWorks #CoriDiaz #CarpalTunnel #Reading #ExperimentalTheatre #NYCPlaywrights

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One of the 🪄featured🪄 readings for this year’s Soirée in The Sky is… ♟️Lesbian Chess Night 2006♟️ By Cori Diaz, Featuring Jacqueline Guillén & Blair Baker…. See you Monday! 🪄🪄🪄 Cori Diaz has had her plays workshopped with SheNYC Arts, LaGuardia Performing Arts Center’s Rough Draft Festival, The Tank’s LimeFest and Darkfest, RE/VENUE, Ensemble Studio Theatre LA, Abingdon Theatre Company, The Bechdel Group, Playwrights on Park, Concord Theatricals’ Off-Off Broadway Festival, and was a finalist for the Civilians’ R&D Group, the LAMBDA Literary Writers Retreat, and the Stanley Drama Award. She is a member of PlayPenn Playwrights Cohort, and a recent member of Life Jacket Theatre’s Writer’s Room and a 2025-2026 recipient of the EST/Sloan commission. BFA: NYU Tisch. coridiaz.com

Tech is in full swing! Shout out to our stage manager and design team who are low-key (and by that we mean high-key) KILLING ITTTT! Not pictured: Lee Anne Meeks (Lighting Design) @leeanneorlee Asher Muldoon (Original Music) @asher.muldoon

THE WORD OF THE DAY is the linguistic thriller you never knew you needed. And you'd better act fast -- it opens at SheNYC TONIGHT and runs this weekend only! . . . . . #womeninthearts #womenwrite #womenwriters #womencomposers #musicaltheater #womendirect #womenlead #womendirectors #directher #shenyc #shenycarts #playwright #eastvillage #theaterfestival #nyctheatre #nyctheater #newplay #newmusical #timesup #feministart #broadway #offbroadway #broadwaybound #broadwayshow #producing #producermemes #producer #producerlife

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Join us Thursday, June 5 at 7pm (@mtc_nyc ) for a preview of Cori Diaz’s latest play: 18 WEST 11TH STREET. Plus, get a sneak peek at 5 other exciting new works by NYC’s emerging LGBTQ+ playwrights. 💛 LIFE JACKET’S WRITERS ROOM | @lifejacketnyc Spring 2025 Showcase Program Director: Gianfranco Lentini | @heygianfranco RSVP: [email protected] *space is extremely limited* — 18 WEST 11TH STREET Playwright: Cori Diaz | @corigrams The year is 1970, and a group of five disaffected, Marxist college students build a bomb in New York’s Greenwich Village to protest the Vietnam War. CAST: Valentina Zazzali | @valentinazazzali Baylee Hughes | @bayleehughes_ Emma Mueller | @itsemmamueller Jackson Steinberg Nick Snipes — @lifejacketnyc #playwright #playwrights #writer #writing #writersroom #writers #write #theatre #theater #nyc #lgbt #lgbtqia #lgbtq🌈 #gay #queer #setthestage #writersgroup #writinggroup #newwork #newyork #nyc #art #artist #artists #musical #musicals #creative #creativity

Meet the writer of THE WORD OF THE DAY: @corigrams ! And if you're loving the sound of this play, you're in luck - they are currently casting! Head to the link in our bio to learn more about the show and see the casting call. Cori Diaz has had her plays workshopped at RE/VENUE NYC, The Tank’s LimeFest, LaGuardia Performing Arts Center’s Rough Draft Festival, The Workshop Theater’s Winter Playwriting Intensive, and was a finalist for the LAMBDA Literary Writers Retreat and the Stanley Drama Award. Her ten-minute play, Can You Dance the Merengue?, is a 2025 Concord Theatricals Off-Off Broadway Festival finalist. She is a current member of Life Jacket Theatre’s Writer’s Room. BFA: NYU Tisch. #womeninthearts #womenwrite #womenwriters #womencomposers #funnywomen #womendirect #womenlead #actor #musicaltheatrenerd #behindthescenes #producer #shenyc #shenycarts #bwaymusical #bway #nyctheatre #nyctheater #newplay #newmusical #broadway #offbroadway #producerlife #womencompose #feministart #actorslife

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