Monet Hurst-Mendoza is an NYC-based playwright from Los Angeles, CA. Her plays have been developed with Rising Circle Theater Collective, Astoria Performing Arts Center, American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Atlantic Acting School/NYU Tisch, The Flea Theater, WP Theater, The Public Theater, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Westport Country Playhouse, and Long Wharf Theatre, among others. Monet is an alum of the Emerging Writers Group at The Public Theater, R&D Group at The Civilians, Fresh Ground Pepper's Playground Playgroup, WP Theater Playwrights Lab, and the Van Lier Fellowship at New Dramatists. She has been in residency at MacDowell, Millay Arts, Ucross, Stillwright, La Mama Umbria, The MITTEN Lab, and SPACE on Ryder Farm. Her play TORERA was featured on the 2019 Kilroys List and...
Monet Hurst-Mendoza is an NYC-based playwright from Los Angeles, CA. Her plays have been developed with Rising Circle Theater Collective, Astoria Performing Arts Center, American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Atlantic Acting School/NYU Tisch, The Flea Theater, WP Theater, The Public Theater, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Westport Country Playhouse, and Long Wharf Theatre, among others. Monet is an alum of the Emerging Writers Group at The Public Theater, R&D Group at The Civilians, Fresh Ground Pepper's Playground Playgroup, WP Theater Playwrights Lab, and the Van Lier Fellowship at New Dramatists. She has been in residency at MacDowell, Millay Arts, Ucross, Stillwright, La Mama Umbria, The MITTEN Lab, and SPACE on Ryder Farm. Her play TORERA was featured on the 2019 Kilroys List and received its world premiere at The Alley Theatre in 2023.
Monet served as a Producing Artistic Leader of Rising Circle Theater Collective for eight years, during which she helped develop INKtank/PlayRISE, a developmental writers' lab and new works festival for emerging playwrights of color. Remezcla profiled her in July 2019 as one of the "8 Most Exciting Latino Playwrights Making Work Right Now."
Finalist: Playwright's Week and the New York Jerome Fellowship at The Lark, Old Vic New Voices US/UK Exchange, the Many Voices Fellowship at The Playwright's Center, the Playwrights Realm Writing Fellowship, Artemisia Fall Festival, The Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference, Forward Flux Three New American Plays Project, and the Leah Ryan FEWW Prize (Honorable Mention, 2017). Smith Prize for Political Theatre and Cherry Lane Mentor Project nominations. Broadway: Assistant to JT Rogers for OSLO at Lincoln Center Theater.
Monet was a writer/producer for seasons 21-24 of "Law and Order: SVU." Episodes she co-wrote garnered multiple Imagen Awards nominations (and three wins) honoring positive portrayals of Latinos in media and a nomination for the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Allen Poe Award for Best Teleplay. Current commissions: Westport Country Playhouse and The Kennedy Center. Proud member of The Kilroys, Florida Studio Theatre’s Playwright Collective, The Dramatist Guild, and WGAE. B.A. Marymount Manhattan College.
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