BIO

Maria Messias Mendes is a playwright, screenwriter and lecturer.

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She writes female-led, character-driven stories exploring intimacy, illness, and survival under pressure, where private lives are shaped and distorted by wider systems such as care, control and social inequality. She's interested in what happens when ordinary lives are pushed into crisis, and the moral compromises that follow.

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Her work has been performed at various venues, such as Pleasance Theatre, Omnibus Theatre, Theatre Deli, Cambridge Junction, AMT Theatre 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)

First Class Honours in BA (Hons) English with Creative Writing (Queen Mary University of London)