BIO

Maria Messias Mendes is a playwright, screenwriter and academic.

 

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 Omnibus Theatre, Cambridge Junction and London Performance Studios.

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

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Distinction in MA 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 particularly interested in work that open conversations that cross borders. Having come from a migrant (Zimbabwean-Portuguese) family and being a migrant herself, the meeting of cultures has been central to her experience and survival. Therefore, for her, an urgent question is how we tell stories that cross boundaries, languages, forms and genres to better reflect complex realities and identities.