STAGE
The Residencies
Two playwrights, Calliope, in her 50s, and Ivy in her 20s collide over three chaotic residencies,
tumbling in and out of love with each other, their bodies, and the maddening world of theatre.
Workshop
2025 - Jade Rabbit Theatre Company
Two playwrights, Calliope, in her 50s, and Ivy in her 20s collide over three chaotic residencies,
tumbling in and out of love with each other, their bodies, and the maddening world of theatre.
Workshop
2025 - Jade Rabbit Theatre Company
A Full-Blown Horror Story
When 55-year-old Jayne moves in with 29-year-old Stohrey, secrets unravel;
including Jayne’s deal with the devil to find her long-lost daughter and turn her into a revolutionary leader.
Workshop
2025 - Flux Theatre Ensemble – Core Work
When 55-year-old Jayne moves in with 29-year-old Stohrey, secrets unravel;
including Jayne’s deal with the devil to find her long-lost daughter and turn her into a revolutionary leader.
Workshop
2025 - Flux Theatre Ensemble – Core Work
Rebecca Roman Redd at the Most Dangerous Hour
Pandemic locked down and losing it, trans YA author Rebecca Redd juggles a vicious review,
a chaotic film adaptation, an ex, a fiancé, an assistant, a sister, and a scheming Hollywood executive who just might be a real werewolf.
Workshop:
2025 - Flux Theatre Ensemble
Pandemic locked down and losing it, trans YA author Rebecca Redd juggles a vicious review,
a chaotic film adaptation, an ex, a fiancé, an assistant, a sister, and a scheming Hollywood executive who just might be a real werewolf.
Workshop:
2025 - Flux Theatre Ensemble
SombraLuz, O La Presencia
A fractured family battles the relentless specter of war, addiction, and buried guilt as Luz Colón’s PTSD, embodied by the sharp-tongued, ever-haunting SombraLuz, forces her estranged children to confront the jagged edges of love, faith, and generational trauma with grim hilarity and desperate grace.
Workshop:
2024 - People’s Theatre Project
Playwrights Unit Cohort Fellowship
2025 - Mid Atlantic Arts/ New Jersey Council for the Arts Grant Recipient
2025 - Terrence McNally New Works Incubator at Rattlestick - SemiFinalist
A fractured family battles the relentless specter of war, addiction, and buried guilt as Luz Colón’s PTSD, embodied by the sharp-tongued, ever-haunting SombraLuz, forces her estranged children to confront the jagged edges of love, faith, and generational trauma with grim hilarity and desperate grace.
Workshop:
2024 - People’s Theatre Project
Playwrights Unit Cohort Fellowship
2025 - Mid Atlantic Arts/ New Jersey Council for the Arts Grant Recipient
2025 - Terrence McNally New Works Incubator at Rattlestick - SemiFinalist
The Importance of Being Earnest Part Deux: Thoroughly Stupid Things
In this sequel to The Importance of Being Earnest, Gwendolen and Cecily, trapped in "happy" marriages, suspect their husbands of infidelity and infiltrate their men’s club—disguised as brother-attorneys, Earnest and Earnest.
2024 - Live Arts Theatre [Atlanta, GA / USA]
2023 - Dorset Players [Dorset, Vt / USA]
2009 - Callen Theatre [Salem, MA / USA]
2008 - New York International Fringe Festival [New York, NY / USA]
Winner – Outstanding Playwrighting Award
2008 - Manhattan Theatre Source [New York, NY / USA]
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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.”
Martin Denton - 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
In this sequel to The Importance of Being Earnest, Gwendolen and Cecily, trapped in "happy" marriages, suspect their husbands of infidelity and infiltrate their men’s club—disguised as brother-attorneys, Earnest and Earnest.
2024 - Live Arts Theatre [Atlanta, GA / USA]
2023 - Dorset Players [Dorset, Vt / USA]
2009 - Callen Theatre [Salem, MA / USA]
2008 - New York International Fringe Festival [New York, NY / USA]
Winner – Outstanding Playwrighting Award
2008 - Manhattan Theatre Source [New York, NY / USA]
ORDER THE PLAY.
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.”
Martin Denton - 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
Swinging Victory
Swinging Victory! is a lively musical set during World War II, inspired by the era's USO tours and the iconic Andrews Sisters. The story follows a troupe of entertainers, the Swinging Victory Girls, as they travel to Europe to boost troop morale with music, comedy, and romance. Conceived by Megan Demarest with a book by Montserrat Mendez, as commissioned by Salem State College.
2010 - Salem State College
Swinging Victory! is a lively musical set during World War II, inspired by the era's USO tours and the iconic Andrews Sisters. The story follows a troupe of entertainers, the Swinging Victory Girls, as they travel to Europe to boost troop morale with music, comedy, and romance. Conceived by Megan Demarest with a book by Montserrat Mendez, as commissioned by Salem State College.
2010 - Salem State College
FILM
A Game of Cunning
Writer/Director – Feature Film - Currently in Pre-production
Description Not Available at this time.
Producers: Montserrat Mendez, Elizabeth Bendelac.
Writer/Director – Feature Film - Currently in Pre-production
Description Not Available at this time.
Producers: Montserrat Mendez, Elizabeth Bendelac.
A Trial of Spies
Logline: Madly devoted to each other, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg set on a path of espionage and treason in order to help the Russians save as many Jews as possible from the German Holocaust Machine leading to a Trial that would change America. As told by Ethel Rosenberg.
Top 10 - Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting
Logline: Madly devoted to each other, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg set on a path of espionage and treason in order to help the Russians save as many Jews as possible from the German Holocaust Machine leading to a Trial that would change America. As told by Ethel Rosenberg.
Top 10 - Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting
PRODUCED ONE-ACT PLAYS
Donde Esta Pedro Mano
2021 - City Theatre, South Florida
2009 - Ingenius Festival, Manhattan Theatre Festival
2007 - City Theatre, South Florida
2003 - Rutgers University
2021 - City Theatre, South Florida
2009 - Ingenius Festival, Manhattan Theatre Festival
2007 - City Theatre, South Florida
2003 - Rutgers University
Transference
2016 - New York Drama Therapy Department Commission
2016 - New York Drama Therapy Department Commission
Prospect Park
2015 - New York Madness, New York New York
2015 - New York Madness, New York New York
Hush Little Baby
2009 - February - Vagabond Theatre Ensemble
2008 - November - The Actor’s Playground Theatre Company
2007 - March- MadLab Theatre, Columbus Ohio
2009 - February - Vagabond Theatre Ensemble
2008 - November - The Actor’s Playground Theatre Company
2007 - March- MadLab Theatre, Columbus Ohio
SHORT STORIES
Donde Esta Pedro Mano
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A telenovela waiting for Godot. A woman waiting alone after the Sept. 11th attacks. Four women from literature yearning to be free of their construction. The journey of a diamond ring. Parents unable to figured out what to do about their newborn. A young nurse deals with a student coming into her womanhood. A baseball player can’t focus while on the plate. A mother and son say goodbye to their father. A gay affair with a therapist goes wrong. A Student Body group must make a decision about a dangerous new club in school and a white hipster couple, moves into a gentrifying neighborhood that is more than meets the eyes.
A collection of humans from the award-winning writer of Thoroughly Stupid Things. |
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ALWAYS TO BE CONTINUED
