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Montserrat MendezRincoeño, Ricanteur
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"You're unfamiliar with Montserrat Mendez, you say? Oh My dear, then you must go off to your garrulous Google, or your yappy Yahoo and absorb all you can about him. He is - and I say this with envy - a perfectly marvelous playwright... A Comic Masterwork… A veritable monsoon of precisely executed comedy, I hardly expected thoroughly stupid to be so bright."
Leonard Jacobs - Backstage
Leonard Jacobs - Backstage
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Montserrat Mendez takes every opportunity to pun, rhyme, and elicit riotous laughter from the audience"
Zachary Zaithian NYTheatre.com |
"Montserrat is a young theatre artist to keep an eye on."
Martin Denton, NYTheatre.com |
Montserrat, Mozzie, Monty, Mozzle or Mozz
is a New Jersey based writer/director
Originally from Rincon, Puerto Rico, Mozzie began his professional career as a playwright and director in the independent NYC theatre scene after studying Literature (British, Spanish, Medieval) and Theatre at the University of Scranton.
His sequel to The Importance of Being Earnest - Thoroughly Stupid Things was called "A Comic Masterwork," by critic Leonard Jacobs, and received the Best Playwrighting Award at the 2008 New York International Fringe Festival.
He has directed for several independent theatre companies, including, Manhattan Theatre Source and Nylon Fusion Collective, and is a current creative core member of the Flux Theatre Company, a transformative theater company that explores and seeks to awaken the capacity for change.
As a screenwriter he has written films about Griselda Blanco for producer John Grossman, His screenplay The Trial and Execution of that Spy Julius Rosenberg and His Wife Ethel Rosenberg, ranked in the top 30 of the Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting and, Chisholm - A Woman of Brooklyn - was a finalist for the prestigious Athena List. A Woman of Brooklyn was recently second rounded for the 2022 Sundance Script Lab.
He says about writing:
"I prefer to use storytelling as a form of archeology. Exploring the various evolutions of character, language and wit, and how they form our human identity. How stories are used for the erasure of cultures, and how they can be utilized for our re-emergence into a more equitable future. "
He is the proud co-founder of The MozzleStead Company.
He is currently preparing to direct his first full-length feature film.
is a New Jersey based writer/director
Originally from Rincon, Puerto Rico, Mozzie began his professional career as a playwright and director in the independent NYC theatre scene after studying Literature (British, Spanish, Medieval) and Theatre at the University of Scranton.
His sequel to The Importance of Being Earnest - Thoroughly Stupid Things was called "A Comic Masterwork," by critic Leonard Jacobs, and received the Best Playwrighting Award at the 2008 New York International Fringe Festival.
He has directed for several independent theatre companies, including, Manhattan Theatre Source and Nylon Fusion Collective, and is a current creative core member of the Flux Theatre Company, a transformative theater company that explores and seeks to awaken the capacity for change.
As a screenwriter he has written films about Griselda Blanco for producer John Grossman, His screenplay The Trial and Execution of that Spy Julius Rosenberg and His Wife Ethel Rosenberg, ranked in the top 30 of the Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting and, Chisholm - A Woman of Brooklyn - was a finalist for the prestigious Athena List. A Woman of Brooklyn was recently second rounded for the 2022 Sundance Script Lab.
He says about writing:
"I prefer to use storytelling as a form of archeology. Exploring the various evolutions of character, language and wit, and how they form our human identity. How stories are used for the erasure of cultures, and how they can be utilized for our re-emergence into a more equitable future. "
He is the proud co-founder of The MozzleStead Company.
He is currently preparing to direct his first full-length feature film.
AWARDS, RECOGNITIONS & "NEAR RECOGNITIONS"
Finalist
Taller Telemundo: Escritores
Finalist (Top 30)
Nicholl Fellowship
The Trial and Execution of that spy Julius Rosenberg and his wife Ethel Rosenberg
Finalist
Orlando Shakespeare Theater
PlayFest
The Importance of Being Earnest Part Deux:
Thoroughly Stupid Things
Outstanding Playwriting Award
New York International Fringe Festival
The Importance of Being Earnest Part Deux:
Thoroughly Stupid Things
Nomination
New York Innovative Theatre Award
Billy Carver and The Children in Mind
Finalist
Athena List
Chisholm - A Woman of Brooklyn
Finalist
2021 Spotify Sound Up
LatinX Program
2021 Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting
A Woman of Brooklyn
Top 20%
Second Round Finalist
2022 Sundance Directors Lab
A Woman of Brooklyn
Finalist
Taller Telemundo: Escritores
Finalist (Top 30)
Nicholl Fellowship
The Trial and Execution of that spy Julius Rosenberg and his wife Ethel Rosenberg
Finalist
Orlando Shakespeare Theater
PlayFest
The Importance of Being Earnest Part Deux:
Thoroughly Stupid Things
Outstanding Playwriting Award
New York International Fringe Festival
The Importance of Being Earnest Part Deux:
Thoroughly Stupid Things
Nomination
New York Innovative Theatre Award
Billy Carver and The Children in Mind
Finalist
Athena List
Chisholm - A Woman of Brooklyn
Finalist
2021 Spotify Sound Up
LatinX Program
2021 Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting
A Woman of Brooklyn
Top 20%
Second Round Finalist
2022 Sundance Directors Lab
A Woman of Brooklyn
