Posted December 17, 2015
Award-winning playwright heading to Temple
Kristoffer Diaz is the university's first playwright-in-residence.
Joseph V. Labolito
Temple theater students will have the opportunity to work with playwright Kristoffer Diaz, who was selected for the new playwright residency program.
A Pulitzer Prize–nominated playwright’s next act will be at Temple University, thanks to a new residency program announced this month.
The Department of Theater’s Playwright Residency Program will bring Kristoffer Diaz, the first recipient of the award, to campus this winter to begin collaborating with faculty and students. While at Temple, Diaz—an educator whose play The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity was a 2010 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama—will write a full-length play that will receive a full production in the next school year (2016–2017).
With guidance from Associate Professor of Directing and Playwriting Edward Sobel, Diaz will have the ability to develop the play with an ensemble of actors in mind. Diaz will conduct master classes for MFA playwriting program students and work with MFA acting students.
The residency program is supported by David G. Steele, FOX ‘91.