Montserrat Mendez
Writer, Director
Rincoeño, Ricanteur
Libertine, Ne're Do Well
Escritor Libre y Asociado
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Montserrat Mendez is a Queer Taino/Latino playwright, screenwriter and director. He splits his time between his artistic pursuits and farm in the beautiful mountains of Rincon, Puerto Rico where he was blessed to be born.
He ranked in the Top 10 of the Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting, with a script about the Trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, and won the Playwrighting Award at the 2008 New York International Fringe Festival, with his comedy sequel to The Importance of Being Earnest. His script about Shirley Chisholm was a finalist at the Athena Film Festival. Montserrat uses his story telling as a form of archeologism. Exploring the various aspects and languages of the human identity, and how their erasure and re-emergence sets us on the path to justice.
He currently develops film and television with The MozzleStead Company and Podcasts and Emerging IPs with Eindor Road.
Montserrat is a Proud Board Member of The Shirley Chisholm Cultural Institute
Rincoeño, Ricanteur
Libertine, Ne're Do Well
Escritor Libre y Asociado
Raw Deluxe Mixed Nut in a Resealable Mozzie.
Montserrat Mendez is a Queer Taino/Latino playwright, screenwriter and director. He splits his time between his artistic pursuits and farm in the beautiful mountains of Rincon, Puerto Rico where he was blessed to be born.
He ranked in the Top 10 of the Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting, with a script about the Trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, and won the Playwrighting Award at the 2008 New York International Fringe Festival, with his comedy sequel to The Importance of Being Earnest. His script about Shirley Chisholm was a finalist at the Athena Film Festival. Montserrat uses his story telling as a form of archeologism. Exploring the various aspects and languages of the human identity, and how their erasure and re-emergence sets us on the path to justice.
He currently develops film and television with The MozzleStead Company and Podcasts and Emerging IPs with Eindor Road.
Montserrat is a Proud Board Member of The Shirley Chisholm Cultural Institute
AWARDS and RECOGNITIONS
New York International Fringe Festival
Best Playwrighting Award - Thoroughly Stupid Things
Nicholl Fellowship - Finalist (Top 30)
The Trial and Execution of that spy Julius Rosenberg and his wife Ethel Rosenberg
Athena List - Finalist - Chisholm
2021 Sundance Director's Lab Second Round
A Woman of Brooklyn
2021 Spotify Sound Up LatinX Program Finalist
New York International Fringe Festival
Best Playwrighting Award - Thoroughly Stupid Things
Nicholl Fellowship - Finalist (Top 30)
The Trial and Execution of that spy Julius Rosenberg and his wife Ethel Rosenberg
Athena List - Finalist - Chisholm
2021 Sundance Director's Lab Second Round
A Woman of Brooklyn
2021 Spotify Sound Up LatinX Program Finalist
"Montserrat is a young theatre artist to keep an eye on." Martin Denton, NYTheatre.com
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Montserrat Mendez takes every opportunity to pun, rhyme, and elicit riotous laughter from the audience"
Zachary Zaithian NYTheatre.com
Zachary Zaithian NYTheatre.com
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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."
Leonard Jacobs - Backstage
Leonard Jacobs - Backstage
