Montserrat Mendez
I was born and raised in Rincon, Puerto Rico.
I am a talented, passionate and compassionate storyteller with 20 years of experience as an independent theatre maker in New York City.
My stage play The Importance of Being Earnest Part Deux: Thoroughly Stupid Things was called "A Comic Masterwork," by Times Out, and received the Best Playwrighting Award at the 2008 New York International Fringe Festival. Since then, I have continued to direct for several independent theatre companies, including Nylon Fusion Collective, as well as a creative core member of the Flux Theatre Company, a transformative theater company that explores and seeks to awaken the capacity for change.
A history fanatic, some my stage plays have been optioned as stage adaptations, of which, the 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,
I prefer to use storytelling as a form of archeology. Exploring the various aspects of 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. I think my stories create opportunities to reclaim my latine self and set my community on a path towards creative justice.
But I also enjoy writing a British romp from time to time. I don't know why. It just rolls out of my brain that way.
I am the very proud papi of The MozzleStead Company.
I am a talented, passionate and compassionate storyteller with 20 years of experience as an independent theatre maker in New York City.
My stage play The Importance of Being Earnest Part Deux: Thoroughly Stupid Things was called "A Comic Masterwork," by Times Out, and received the Best Playwrighting Award at the 2008 New York International Fringe Festival. Since then, I have continued to direct for several independent theatre companies, including Nylon Fusion Collective, as well as a creative core member of the Flux Theatre Company, a transformative theater company that explores and seeks to awaken the capacity for change.
A history fanatic, some my stage plays have been optioned as stage adaptations, of which, the 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,
I prefer to use storytelling as a form of archeology. Exploring the various aspects of 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. I think my stories create opportunities to reclaim my latine self and set my community on a path towards creative justice.
But I also enjoy writing a British romp from time to time. I don't know why. It just rolls out of my brain that way.
I am the very proud papi of The MozzleStead Company.
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
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
Second Round Finalist
2022 Sundance Directors Lab
A Woman of Brooklyn
"Montserrat is a young theatre artist to keep an eye on."
Martin Denton, NYTheatre.com
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... 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
