FILM

Time For Shirley Chisholm
Director - Montserrat Mendez

2022

Synopsis: ​A collaboration between The Shirley Chisholm Cultural Institute and Director Montserrat Mendez, Time for Shirley Chisholm, is the first of many media projects exploring the legacy of the incredible, Unbought and Unbossed, Shirley Chisholm as we near the 50th Anniversary of her Presidential campaign and prepare to produce a major motion picture on her incredible journey.   This 15-minute documentary explores the treatment Shirley got at the hands of the media. 

Polltakers
​Director: Montserrat Mendez

2017
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After Predicting a presidential landslide and being dead wrong, Richard Dickinson escapes to Africa. On the verge of being crowned king of a village (through an electoral college election he instituted) but a senile father and trouble in his poll-taking company force him to return to a life he swore he'd abandon...forever.

Hush Little Baby

Directed by Montserrat Mendez
Screenplay by Armistead Johnson
​Based on a one-act by Montserrat Mendez

Roger and the Therapeutic Therapist. 
Directed by Montserrat Mendez
Screenplay by Armistead Johnson. 
​2015

THEATER

The Importance of Being Earnest Pard Deux: Thoroughly Stupid Things. 
Writer/Director
Manhattan Theatre Source, NYC
The New York International Fringe Festival
​2008
In this critically acclaimed sequel to Oscar Wilde'sThe Importance of Being Earnest, Gwendolen and Cecily go undercover as attorneys Ernest and Ernest to find out why Jack and Algernon spend so much time at the local men's club. When they meet alluring cabaret singer Bibi LaFlam and a menacing French Inspector, the ladies get more than they bargain for in this thoroughly "Wilde" comedy. 

​Winner of the 2008 Best Playwrighting Award at the New York International Fringe Festival.

REVIEWS:
“A Comic Masterwork… A veritable monsoon of precisely executed comedy demonstrated by a most-polished cast.  Each actor superbly draws every drop of amusement from Mendez’s script, with its matchless gift for literary allusion, I hardly expected thoroughly stupid to be so bright.” 
Leonard Jacobs- Backstage
  
“The ending of the play, which nods a midsummer night’s dream, even has a touch of somber note – marking the reality of the world which confounds us. Making such a touching and poignant ending was a brave and successful choice, hilarious, and ridiculous evening. Now that’s what theatre is!” 
Andrew Bellware – Braidwood Films
 
“Thoroughly Stupid things is the best play I’ve seen at the Fringe!”  Lingual Tremors – Blog
 
“Rapid-fire writing replete with riotous wordplay, a fun, clever night of theatre.”  Nytheatre.com
 
“**** (four stars) Montserrat Mendez’s follow-up to Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest is the rare sequel that doesn’t disappoint. The upper classes remain frivolous and atwitter as Mendez picks up Wilde’s story.  The endearing Gwendolen (Emma Gordon) and Cecily (Amy Forney) suspect their husbands are having affairs – so, as any good wife would do, they disguise themselves as men and spy on their spouses at a gentlemen’s club, slipping in and out of their false identities to choruses of laughter from the audience. Mendez’s script weaves a lattice of clover wordplay and has great fun blowing up and rebuilding the fourth wall. Barely pausing to inhale, the fine cast reels off Mendez’s verbiage with aplomb, in accents whose tongue-in-cheek snootiness is perfectly matched by the wry smile that Mendez flashes at Wilde.” Ashley Hoffman – Time Out
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Billy Carver and The Children in Mind - Writer/Director
​Manhattan Theatre Source, NYC
2010

Billy Carver is the werewolfian brainchild of feted writer Rebecca Roman Redd, but she thinks of ending it all when reviews for he latest book recommend she put her stories on the big screen. A fast-paced farce as her pack of hangers-on are horrified at the prospect of their livelihood being killed, but all that Rebecca wants is a chance for true love or a true orgasm.

New York Innovative Theatre Awards Nomination
Lauren Roth – Featured Actress in a Play. 

“The most lavish and beautifully realized production I’ve yet seen at Manhattan Theatre source… Stunning!... The play’s overall literary theme and style make Billy Caver feel like a rare visitor from a long-gone theatrical era; yet it’s a brand-new piece, written almost literally overnight, which is why Montserrat Mendez is a young theatre artist to keep a particular eye on.”
Martin Denton – nytheatre.com

“Thought-provoking, fantastic, a unique and hilarious piece of serendipity.”
Juliana Appenrodt – Showbusiness Weekly

The Birthday Boys
ArtEffects Theatre Company  At Access Theatre NYC
New York City
2011

Unmentionables 
​Directed by Montserrat Mendez 
Written by Joseph Samuel Wright
Nylon Fusion Theatre Company, NYC
2015

REVIEWS:

 “Unmentionables” is a work of art," - Review Fix

"The entire cast works beautifully and seamlessly, as secrets unfold and dark layers, beneath perky personalities, explode!" -  Roberta on The Arts

It's all Make Believe, Isn't it?
by Sharon Pollock
Directed by Montserrat Mendez
Company: Nylon Fusion Collective 
​2016

Cast: 
Hellen Herbert & Gina LeMoine
Online Dates are Hard to Handle
by Matthew McLachlan
Directed by Montserrat Mendez
Company: Nylon Fusion Collective
2016

Cast:
Ben van Berkum and Mike Roche