https://www.monethurstmendoza.com/home daily 1.0 2026-04-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5d8e2401232cf46ca41dde/9adbdfaa-b0a9-44ea-801e-2ed7e84095ff/IMG_8066.jpeg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5d8e2401232cf46ca41dde/96f156d7-a1b7-47fd-8568-076f5291862a/IMG_6463.jpg Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.monethurstmendoza.com/contact-me daily 0.75 2025-07-24 https://www.monethurstmendoza.com/plays daily 0.75 2026-01-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5d8e2401232cf46ca41dde/1769471273033-6SCJ9FE5ZT65S5GT3T0X/IMG_7537.jpeg Plays Jacqueline Guillén, Andrea Soto, and Elena Hurst. Photo by Joan Marcus. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5d8e2401232cf46ca41dde/1769471272651-TZZVFLCRB8HFDUJP4EPH/IMG_7533.jpeg Plays Christian Jesús Galvis, Jacqueline Guillén, Andrea Soto, Jorge Cordova, and Jared Machado. Photo by Joan Marcus. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5d8e2401232cf46ca41dde/1769471366073-EVCQV71KY2K4A9FM1ODQ/IMG_7541.jpeg Plays Jacqueline Guillén and Jared Machado. Photo by Joan Marcus. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5d8e2401232cf46ca41dde/1769471677939-BHD9RJB1BL4ILRCL2TXH/IMG_7535.jpg Plays Jared Machado. Photo by Joan Marcus. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5d8e2401232cf46ca41dde/1769471590147-FM6DKYDRTDAALPAKZUWT/IMG_7538.jpeg Plays Jared Machado, Christian Jesús Galvis, and Andrea Soto. Photo by Joan Marcus. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5d8e2401232cf46ca41dde/1668021570373-V8OROIEG9OB3OLKFKHFI/2017-2018_NYCompanyPlay_BlindCrest_Wyville_FNL_131.jpg Plays Gabriela Lopez Hernandez and Raf Nadal in a student production presented by The American Academy of Dramatic Arts, NYC. Photo by Mark Wyville, 2018. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5d8e2401232cf46ca41dde/1668021587055-NLG2KT7Y4ZV9TBWQE5M0/2017-2018_NYCompanyPlay_BlindCrest_Wyville_FNL_013.jpg Plays Gabriela Lopez Hernandez and Raf Nadal in a student production presented by The American Academy of Dramatic Arts, NYC. Photo by Mark Wyville, 2018. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5d8e2401232cf46ca41dde/1668021734568-DZO79FS6A43IH9CGFWGR/2017-2018_NYCompanyPlay_BlindCrest_Wyville_LR_091.jpg Plays Luke Anthony Neville, Gabriela Lopez Hernandez, and Mecca Christy in a student production presented by The American Academy of Dramatic Arts, NYC. Photo by Mark Wyville, 2018. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5d8e2401232cf46ca41dde/1668021754815-16FMSL9ZX04407YID7F5/2017-2018_NYCompanyPlay_BlindCrest_Wyville_LR_120.jpg Plays Raf Nadal in a student production presented by The American Academy of Dramatic Arts, NYC. Photo by Mark Wyville, 2018. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5d8e2401232cf46ca41dde/1668020671024-JWASGJKA0ECH178ULO1E/Lilia+-+85.jpg Plays Filipe Valle Costa and Jacqueline Guillén in Rising Circle Theater Collective’s workshop production. Photo by Al Foote III https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5d8e2401232cf46ca41dde/1668020672976-F3OGGFGFYHJMCBODODRP/Lilia+-+51.jpg Plays Oscar A.L. Cabrera and José Antonio Melián in Rising Circle Theater Collective’s workshop production. Photo by Al Foote III https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5d8e2401232cf46ca41dde/1668020672700-BX2JFFAQD6HUZZL4C7D1/Lilia+-+22.jpg Plays José Antonio Melián in Rising Circle Theater Collective’s workshop production. Photo by Al Foote III https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5d8e2401232cf46ca41dde/1668020676141-VFO7YJEKTT5931VLRWJL/Lilia+-+02.jpg Plays Jacqueline Guillén in Rising Circle Theater Collective’s workshop production. Photo by Al Foote III https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5d8e2401232cf46ca41dde/1668020853164-7GPNHBDNJBHVNWPC24UT/MRD_3481.jpg Plays Nikhaar Kishnani, Rajesh Bose, Christopher Reed Brown, Kayla Jackmon, and Sahar Bibiyan in Astoria Performing Art Center’s production. Photo by Michael Dekker. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5d8e2401232cf46ca41dde/1668020852646-YFNWD6I5BHFYO0AXQBO5/MRD_2230.jpg Plays Sahar Bibiyan, Rajesh Bose, and Nikhaar Kishnani in Astoria Performing Art Center’s production. Photo by Michael Dekker. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5d8e2401232cf46ca41dde/1668020860775-FLLYLIDQ48G04T36QUC8/MRD_3405.jpg Plays Nikhaar Kishnani, Christopher Reed Brown, and Kayla Jackmon in Astoria Performing Art Center’s production. Photo by Michael Dekker. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5d8e2401232cf46ca41dde/1668021154253-1WUYCBWLFRI16WH87O8N/MRD_2367.jpg Plays Christopher Reed Brown in Astoria Performing Art Center’s production. Photo by Michael Dekker. https://www.monethurstmendoza.com/about-me daily 0.75 2026-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5d8e2401232cf46ca41dde/02ec3b1d-d46a-4ea3-8062-b91954af1605/Monet+Judd.jpg About Me - Monet Hurst-Mendoza is an NYC-based playwright and TV writer from Los Angeles, CA. Her plays have been developed with Rising Circle Theater Collective, Astoria Performing Arts Center, American Academy of Dramatic Arts, The Kupferberg Center for the Arts, 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 held residencies with The MITTEN Lab and SPACE on Ryder Farm. Her play TORERA was featured on the 2019 Kilroys List, 50 Playwrights Project’s 2019 Best Unproduced Latinx Plays, and their 2019 Latinx Plays for College Theatres lists. The play received its world premiere at The Alley Theatre in Houston, TX, in 2023. Remezcla has profiled her as one of the "8 Most Exciting Latino Playwrights Making Work Right Now." Monet was a core Rising Circle Theater Collective member for eight years, during which she helped develop INKtank/PlayRISE, a developmental writers' lab, and a new works festival for emerging playwrights of color. Monet was a writer/producer for seasons 21 through 24 of "Law and Order: SVU”. Episodes she co-wrote won three Imagen Awards for positive portrayals of Latinos in media and a Mystery Writers of America's 2023 Edgar Allan Poe Award nomination. She is a Florida Studio Theatre’s Playwright Collective member and has been commissioned by Westport Country Playhouse and The Kennedy Center. Proud member of The Kilroys, The Dramatist Guild, and WGAE. B.A. Marymount Manhattan College. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5d8e2401232cf46ca41dde/02ec3b1d-d46a-4ea3-8062-b91954af1605/Monet+Judd.jpg About Me - Monet Hurst-Mendoza is an NYC-based playwright and TV writer, originally from Los Angeles, CA. Her plays have been developed with The Alley Theater, WP Theater, Sol Project, Latinx Playwrights Circle, Outside In Theatre, Rising Circle Theater Collective, Astoria Performing Arts Center, Westport Country Playhouse, and Long Wharf Theatre, among others. She is an alumna of the Emerging Writers Group at The Public Theater, the R&D Group at The Civilians, Fresh Ground Pepper's Playground Playgroup, WP Theater's Playwrights Lab, and the Van Lier Fellowship at New Dramatists. Monet has been an artist-in-residence at New Harmony Project, Peacedale Global Arts, The Watermill Center, MacDowell, Millay Arts, La MaMa Umbria, Stillwright, The MITTEN Lab, and SPACE (formerly on Ryder Farm), where she now serves as a board member. Monet is a recipient of the prestigious Helen Merrill Award and the Parity Development Award, and has secured a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts to further develop her Yucatán Play Cycle. Notably, her work appeared on the 2019 Kilroys List and 50 Playwrights Project's listings for Best Unproduced Latinx Plays and Latinx Plays for College Theatres. Recognized by Remezcla as one of the “8 Most Exciting Latino Playwrights Making Work Right Now,” Monet was also recently named one of Broadway Women’s Fund’s 2026 Women to Watch. Monet made her mark in television as a writer and producer for seasons 21-24 of "Law & Order: SVU," with co-written episodes earning multiple Imagen Awards nominations—winning three—celebrating positive representations of Latinos in media. Her work also garnered a nomination for the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Teleplay. She is a graduate of the 2025 WGAE Showrunner Academy. As an artist-activist, Monet was a member of The Kilroys' second cohort, helping to create tools and initiatives that uplifted the work of women and TGNC+ playwrights, and was a Producing Artistic Leader at Rising Circle Theater Collective, where she helped develop INKtank/PlayRISE—a developmental writers' lab and a new works festival for emerging playwrights of color. As an educator, Monet is an adjunct instructor of playwriting at her alma mater, Marymount Manhattan College, and has guest-lectured at Columbia, Fordham, the University of Delaware, and Harvard. She has been a mentor for emerging playwrights at NYU and the Latinx Playwrights Circle. Her contributions to the theatrical industry continue to inspire bold creativity, nurture risk-taking work, and elevate the voices of underrepresented theatre artists. Monet is a proud member of The Dramatist Guild and WGAE.