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Kristoffer Diaz is a playwright and educator living and working in Brooklyn. Full-length titles include The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, Welcome to Arroyo's, The Upstairs Concierge, and The Unfortunates. Awards: 2011 New York Times Outstanding Playwright Award; finalist for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Drama; winner, 2011 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play; winner, 2011 OBIE Award, Best New American Play; and the inaugural Gail Merrifield Papp Fellowship from The Public Theater (2011). He is a recipient of the Jerome Fellowship, the Future Aesthetics Artist Regrant and the Van Lier Fellowship (New Dramatists). Kristoffer holds a BA from New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study, an MFA from NYU's Department of Dramatic Writing, and an MFA from Brooklyn College's Performing Arts Management program.

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Productions

Hell's Kitchen
 
[US Tour, 2025]
Writer
Rent: LiveRent: Live
 
[Broadway, 2019]
Television Adaptation

Writing

Awards and Nominations

Tony Awards - 2024 - Best Book of a Musical

Kristoffer Diaz, Hell's Kitchen


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Obie Awards - 2011 - Best New American Play

Kristoffer Diaz, The Elaborate Entrance Of Chad Deity


winner
The Lortels - 2011 - Outstanding Play

Kristoffer Diaz, The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity

The Pulitzer Prize - 2010 - The Pulitzer Prize for Drama

Kristoffer Diaz, The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity

The Pulitzer Prize - 2010 - The Pulitzer Prize for Drama

Kristoffer Diaz, The Elaborate Entrance

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Submissions For ATC's National Latine Playwrights Award Are Open Now Photo
Submissions For ATC's National Latine Playwrights Award Are Open Now
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Dec 3, 2025

Arizona Theatre Company has launched a call for submissions for the 2026 National Latine PlaywrightsAward. Now in the 29th year of the award, submissions will be accepted through January late January.
Video: Jessica Vosk Departs HELL'S KITCHEN With An Explosive 'Pawn It All' Photo
Video: Jessica Vosk Departs HELL'S KITCHEN With An Explosive 'Pawn It All'
by A.A. Cristi - Dec 2, 2025

The terrific Jessica Vosk has completed her run in Alicia Keys' Hell's Kitchen on Broadway and the production has released footage from inside the Shubert Theatre as Vosk sings one last explosive performance of, 'Pawn It All'. Watch the video!
Listen: HELL'S KITCHEN Release Holiday Song 'Hell’s Kitchen’s A Merry Little Chri Photo
Listen: HELL'S KITCHEN Release Holiday Song 'Hell’s Kitchen’s A Merry Little Christmas”
by Josh Sharpe - Nov 21, 2025

Broadway’s Hell’s Kitchen has dropped a new holiday song, “Hell’s Kitchen’s A Merry Little Christmas,' an original mash-up of the holiday classic “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas” and Alicia Keys’ “The Gospel.” Check it out now!
Video: Yolanda Adams Says HELL'S KITCHEN Broadway Debut is a 'Bucket List' Moment Photo
Video: Yolanda Adams Says HELL'S KITCHEN Broadway Debut is a 'Bucket List' Moment
by Backstage Live with Richard Ridge - Nov 20, 2025

Grammy-winning gospel icon Yolanda Adams is heading to Broadway! The four-time Grammy Award winner will step into the role of Miss Liza Jane in Hell’s Kitchen. BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge sat down with Yolanda to discuss her Broadway debut.
Listen: Durrell 'Tank' Babbs Shares New Single 'Control' Photo
Listen: Durrell 'Tank' Babbs Shares New Single 'Control'
by Josh Sharpe - Nov 19, 2025

R&B star Durrell “Tank” Babbs, back on Broadway for a limited run in Hell's Kitchen, has released his latest single, 'Control.' The track samples Janet Jackson’s hit “Control,” written and produced by Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis. Check it out now.
HELL'S KITCHEN to Release Holiday Song 'Hell’s Kitchen’s A Merry Little Christmas Photo
HELL'S KITCHEN to Release Holiday Song 'Hell’s Kitchen’s A Merry Little Christmas'
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Nov 19, 2025

Broadway’s Hell’s Kitchen will release a new holiday song, “Hell’s Kitchen’s A Merry Little Christmas,' featuring cast members Amanda Reid, Phillip Johnson Richardson and Jessica Vosk.
Ne-Yo Make Broadway Debut as 'Davis' in HELL’S KITCHEN Photo
Ne-Yo Make Broadway Debut as 'Davis' in HELL’S KITCHEN
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Nov 17, 2025

Ne-Yo will make his Broadway debut in Hell's Kitchen. Nearly a decade after the recording artist won audiences over as The Tin Man in NBC’s “The Wiz Live!,” Ne-Yo steps onto the Broadway stage for the first time in the role of “Davis.”
Video: Durrell 'Tank' Babbs and Amanda Reid Perform 'If I Ain’t Got You' From HELL' Photo
Video: Durrell 'Tank' Babbs and Amanda Reid Perform 'If I Ain’t Got You' From HELL'S KITCHEN
by Josh Sharpe - Nov 17, 2025

As part of a new Broadway-themed episode of the Tamron Hall Show, Hell's Kitchen stars Tank and Amanda Reid took the stage to perform a reimagined version of “I Ain’t Got You” from the hit Broadway musical. Watch it now!
Review: HELL'S KITCHEN National Tour Presented by Broadway In Chicago Photo
Review: HELL'S KITCHEN National Tour Presented by Broadway In Chicago
by Rachel Weinberg - Nov 13, 2025

HELL’S KITCHEN, the Alicia Keys jukebox musical now making its Chicago premiere as part of the first national tour, has a messy storyline wrapped in slick packaging. While the show is loosely based on Keys’s childhood in Manhattan, the storytelling is generic, and the songs are often awkwardly incorporated into the book. Admittedly, Kristoffer Diaz’s book is weak. It’s a flimsy vehicle for Keys’s song catalog. Huge Alicia Keys fans might enjoy hearing her biggest hits performed by musical theater actors, but the plot around them doesn’t hang together.
HELL’S KITCHEN Opens At The James M. Nederlander Theatre For Three-Week Chicago Eng Photo
HELL’S KITCHEN Opens At The James M. Nederlander Theatre For Three-Week Chicago Engagement
by A.A. Cristi - Nov 12, 2025

HELL’S KITCHEN, the 13-time Tony Award-nominated Broadway musical featuring the songs of Alicia Keys, is now playing at the James M. Nederlander Theatre in Chicago through November 30, 2025.
Gospel Legend Yolanda Adams to Make Broadway Debut in HELL’S KITCHEN; Tony-Winner K Photo
Gospel Legend Yolanda Adams to Make Broadway Debut in HELL’S KITCHEN; Tony-Winner Kecia Lewis Departs In December
by A.A. Cristi - Nov 7, 2025

Four-time Grammy Award winner Yolanda Adams will make her Broadway debut in Alicia Keys’ hit musical Hell’s Kitchen, taking over the role of Miss Liza Jane from Tony Award winner Kecia Lewis beginning December 16, 2025 at the Shubert Theatre.
Encore Sessions with Alicia Keys to Return to HELL'S KITCHEN on Broadway Photo
Encore Sessions with Alicia Keys to Return to HELL'S KITCHEN on Broadway
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Oct 31, 2025

Hell's Kitchen, the Grammy Award-winning musical featuring the music of 17-time Grammy Award winner Alicia Keys, will present the return of Encore Sessions with Alicia Keys, a series of post-show performances.
Jessica Vosk & Phillip Johnson Richardson to Depart HELL'S KITCHEN on Broadway Photo
Jessica Vosk & Phillip Johnson Richardson to Depart HELL'S KITCHEN on Broadway
by Michael Major - Oct 28, 2025

Jessica Vosk has announced her final performance as 'Jersey' in Hell's Kitchen on Broadway. Vosk announced her last show through an Instagram video, giving her followers a backstage tour of the Broadway hit.
HELL’S KITCHEN To Collaborate With 92Y for Broadway Spotlight Educational Program Photo
HELL’S KITCHEN To Collaborate With 92Y for Broadway Spotlight Educational Program
by A.A. Cristi - Oct 22, 2025

The 92nd Street Y, New York (92NY) will launch Broadway Spotlight, a ten-week arts residency for New York City public high school students, developed by 92NY’s School Engagement team in collaboration with the Broadway musical Hell’s Kitchen.
Review: HELL'S KITCHEN at Key Bank State/Playhouse Square/Cleveland Photo
Review: HELL'S KITCHEN at Key Bank State/Playhouse Square/Cleveland
by Roy Berko - Oct 17, 2025

Normally, juke-box musicals, which are scripts created from pre-conceived music, have songs shoe-horned into what is generally an acceptable, but less-than well-written story (think MOULIN ROUGE! and MAMMA MIA!).
HELL'S KITCHEN National Tour is Coming to the Fox Theatre This Winter Photo
HELL'S KITCHEN National Tour is Coming to the Fox Theatre This Winter
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Oct 10, 2025

HELL'S KITCHEN – the hit Broadway musical from 17-time Grammy Award winner Alicia Keys – will play a limited one-week Atlanta engagement. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets.
Alicia Keys Will Perform Following Upcoming Performances of HELL'S KITCHEN Photo
Alicia Keys Will Perform Following Upcoming Performances of HELL'S KITCHEN
by Stephi Wild - Sep 9, 2025

HELL’S KITCHEN, the Grammy Award-winning musical featuring the music of Alicia Keys, will host Encore Sessions with Alicia Keys, a series of post-show performances where Keys will take center stage alongside company members from the production. 
Review: THINGS WITH FRIENDS at American Blues Theater Photo
Review: THINGS WITH FRIENDS at American Blues Theater
by Rachel Weinberg - Sep 8, 2025

Kristoffer Diaz’s THINGS WITH FRIENDS is one extremely chaotic, messy dinner party. This world premiere introduces a variety of different flavors that come together for an undercooked meal.
HELL'S KITCHEN To Play Limited Engagement In Chicago This November Photo
HELL'S KITCHEN To Play Limited Engagement In Chicago This November
by A.A. Cristi - Aug 19, 2025

Tickets are now on sale for HELL’S KITCHEN, Alicia Keys’ hit Broadway musical, coming to Chicago’s James M. Nederlander Theatre November 11–30, 2025. The North American Tour will star Maya Drake as Ali, with Kennedy Caughell and Roz White featured in principal roles.
Exclusive: Maya Drake, Kennedy Caughell, & Roz White Will Lead HELL'S KITCHEN Tour Photo
Exclusive: Maya Drake, Kennedy Caughell, & Roz White Will Lead HELL'S KITCHEN Tour
by Joshua Wright - Aug 8, 2025

The highly anticipated, multi-year North American tour will star Maya Drake as Ali, Kennedy Caughell as Jersey and Roz White as Miss Liza Jane. Additional principals and full ensemble casting will be announced at a later date.
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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

How many shows has Kristoffer Diaz written?

Kristoffer Diaz has written 2 shows including The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity (Playwright), Hell's Kitchen (Book).

What awards has Kristoffer Diaz been nominated for?

Best Book of a Musical (Tony Awards) for Hell's Kitchen, Best New American Play (Obie Awards) for The Elaborate Entrance Of Chad Deity, Outstanding Play (The Lortels) for The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, The Pulitzer Prize for Drama (The Pulitzer Prize) for The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity and The Pulitzer Prize for Drama (The Pulitzer Prize) for The Elaborate Entrance.

What awards has Kristoffer Diaz won?

Kristoffer Diaz has won the Best New American Play Obie Award for The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity and the Outstanding Play award from The Lortels for The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity.

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