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. She was a house team performer and sketch writer at the Sea Tea Comedy Theater in Hartford, CT, and has performed with her improv team, Mystery Switch, in the Hartford Improv Festival. For playwriting, she has 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.
Plays
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. Despite their popularity, they're in hot water due to different controversies they've all had ranging from leaked nudes to rehab sightings. 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.
A home aide tries desperately to get close to his paraplegic patient, leading to an unhealthy and obsessive relationship that crosses multiple boundaries