BIO

Maria Messias Mendes is a playwright, screenwriter and lecturer.

 

Shortlisted for Alpine Fellowship Theatre Prize

Quarter-finalist for Hollywood’s PAGE Screenwriting Award.

Top 12% BBC Writers Room.

Her play 'and the stench of flowers fills the air' received an Arts Council Project Grant 30k (+10k in kind) and was produced by Carmen Collective.

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Her work has been performed at various venues, such as Pleasance Theatre, Omnibus Theatre, Cambridge Junction and the NOLA Project.

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Currently lecturing 'Theatre Practice and Production' at the University of Cambridge.

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Distinction in MSt Writing for Performance (University of Cambridge) and BA (Hons) English with Creative Writing (Queen Mary University of London). Mercury Creative and alumni of Mercury Theatre and Cambridge Junction Writing Labs.

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Particularly interested in work that finds beauty in the ordinary and opens conversations that cross borders. Being from a mixed migrant background, she is keen to platform new voices and explore the question of how we can tell stories to better reflect complex realities and identities.