Montserrat Mendez
Bio:
Writer, Director
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/Latine writer/director.
He splits his time between his artistic pursuits in New York City and farm in the beautiful mountains of Rincon, Puerto Rico.
He ranked in the Top 30 of the Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting, with a script about the Trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
Won the Playwrighting Award at the 2008 New York International Fringe Festival, with his comedy sequel, The Importance of Being Earnest Part Deux: Thoroughly Stupid Things.
His script about Shirley Chisholm was a finalist at the Athena Film Festival, and was second rounded for the Sundance Script Lab.
Montserrat uses his story telling as a form of archeology.
Exploring the various aspects of languages and wit,
how they form the human identity,
and how their erasure and re-emergence
create opportunities to reclaim ourselves
setting us on a path towards justice.
He is the proud co-founder of the The MozzleStead Company.
Writer, Director
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/Latine writer/director.
He splits his time between his artistic pursuits in New York City and farm in the beautiful mountains of Rincon, Puerto Rico.
He ranked in the Top 30 of the Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting, with a script about the Trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
Won the Playwrighting Award at the 2008 New York International Fringe Festival, with his comedy sequel, The Importance of Being Earnest Part Deux: Thoroughly Stupid Things.
His script about Shirley Chisholm was a finalist at the Athena Film Festival, and was second rounded for the Sundance Script Lab.
Montserrat uses his story telling as a form of archeology.
Exploring the various aspects of languages and wit,
how they form the human identity,
and how their erasure and re-emergence
create opportunities to reclaim ourselves
setting us on a path towards justice.
He is the proud co-founder of the The MozzleStead Company.
Artistic Statement:
I write movies and plays that I would like to see, and I think that is where great stories begin. With a personal vision.
The more specific to my experiences the more universal those stories become.
I write from the inside out. From the shadows of my experience to the light.
But when I am ready to tell a story, I give myself over to the journey.
It is a communion; I sacrifice a little of my life with each story I tell.
So, it is important that you engage my work, more than you engage me.
I am a wisp in the wind, my stories, those are my monuments to who we are. And what we could be.
I write movies and plays that I would like to see, and I think that is where great stories begin. With a personal vision.
The more specific to my experiences the more universal those stories become.
I write from the inside out. From the shadows of my experience to the light.
But when I am ready to tell a story, I give myself over to the journey.
It is a communion; I sacrifice a little of my life with each story I tell.
So, it is important that you engage my work, more than you engage me.
I am a wisp in the wind, my stories, those are my monuments to who we are. And what we could be.
AWARDS and 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
Thoroughly Stupid Things
Outstanding Playwrighting Award
New York International Fringe Festival
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 Director's Lab
A Woman of Brooklyn
& *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
Thoroughly Stupid Things
Outstanding Playwrighting Award
New York International Fringe Festival
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 Director's Lab
A Woman of Brooklyn
"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...
A Comic Masterwork… A veritable monsoon of precisely executed comedy,
I hardly expected thoroughly stupid to be so bright."
Leonard Jacobs - Backstage
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
