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Kristoffer Diaz.<\/p>\n
CHICAGO:<\/strong> American Blues Theater<\/a> has named Kristoffer Diaz the recipient of the 2023 Blue Ink Award for his play Things With Friends<\/em>. Diaz will obtain a $2,500 money prize, together with a staged studying at American Blues and additional developmental alternatives.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are thrilled to announce Kristoffer Diaz as the 2023 Blue Ink Award winner,\u201d inventive director Gwendolyn Whiteside mentioned in an announcement. \u201cDiaz\u2019s voice resonates through every page. He has the ability to surprise through character descriptions and actions, word choice, and punctuation, and reveals details only as needed.\u201d<\/p>\n Things With Friends <\/em>follows characters Burt and Adele as they put together to host a cocktail party in Manhattan because the George Washington Bridge collapses into the Hudson River. The play shall be introduced at American Blues in August as a part of the Blue Ink Playwriting Festival. The competition will even current finalist Audrey Cefaly\u2019s Trouble<\/em>, finalist Victor Lesniewski\u2019s Cold Spring<\/em>, and finalist Gloria Majule\u2019s Uhuru<\/em>, together with different works.<\/p>\n Diaz is a playwright, screenwriter, librettist, and educator who was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize<\/a> in Drama for his play The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity<\/em>. His work has been produced, commissioned, and developed on the Public Theater,<\/a> Dallas Theater Center,<\/a> the Geffen Playhouse,<\/a> American Conservatory Theater,<\/a> Center Theatre Group,<\/a> the Oregon Shakespeare Festival,<\/a> and plenty of others. He is the recipient of the a Guggenheim Fellowship,<\/a> a Jerome Fellowship,<\/a> a Lucille Lortel Award,<\/a> and an Obie Award,<\/a> amongst different honors. Diaz additionally tailored the libretto of Rent <\/em>for tv at Fox and wrote for the primary season of Netflix\u2019s GLOW<\/em>. He is an alum of New Dramatists<\/a> and a member of its board of administrators, and is the present secretary of the Dramatists Guild Council.<\/a> Diaz teaches playwriting at New York University Tisch School of the Arts.<\/a><\/p>\n The Blue Ink award was established in 2010 by American Blues Theater to help new works, and can distribute practically $10,000 in awards to playwrights this yr. American Blues Theater strives to discover the American id by the performs it produces and the communities it serves. It is dwelling to the second-oldest Equity ensemble in Chicago. As of 2022, the theatre had a finances of roughly $2.6 million.<\/p>\n