June 30, 2025

Experiments: Carpal Tunnel – December 8

A play by Cori Diaz

ABOUT

It’s the vaguely present day in the year 20XX and master-of-the-novel Manna Benes wants you to meet her at the Roxbury Motel. Is this the worst thing that ever happened to you? Or is that writer’s block? A passion play and a family play and a tragicomedy and a history play and a surrealist play and a transgressive novel and an ekphrastic poem and a children’s book and a meditation on dance and a dance on meditation and an instruction manual and a coupon book and a pornographic magazine and a holy text. And a love story.

BIO

Cori Diaz has had her plays workshopped with SheNYC Arts, LaGuardia Performing Arts Center, The Tank’s LimeFest and Darkfest, RE/VENUE, The Workshop Theater, 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, a recent member of Life Jacket Theatre’s Writer’s Room, and a 2025-2026 recipient of the EST/Sloan commission. BFA: NYU Tisch.

EXPERIMENTS READING SERIES

La MaMa Program

Experiments Play Reading Series 2025–2026 is supported in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature with additional support from the Howard Gilman Foundation, The John Golden Fund, and The Shubert Foundation.