Rebecca Roman Redd Spotlight: Montserrat Mendez

We’re thrilled to kickoff our spotlight of the creative team for Rebecca Roman Redd at the Most Dangerous Hour with the playwright himself! Montserrat Mendez is a longtime Flux collaborator, most recently as one of the co-creators of our Portal Project. We were delighted to ask him a few questions based on his dizzyingly funny and brilliant new play, which you can learn more about here and at the RSVP link below:

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On a scale of 1 to werewolf, how close of a relationship do you have with the moon?

Lunatically a warewolf.

Finish the sentence: the best kind of tart is a ____ tart.

Gay.

Who did you end up stuck with when the pandemic first struck…and how did that go?

My Mother. Very well. she taught me how to swing a machete in case it all went to hell in a handbasket.

If you were a Billy Carver book, what would your title be?

Montserrat Mendez and the Ringing Echoes of Silence (because of my tinnitus).

Where can we follow your work? Montserratmendez.com, and Instagram and Threads are @Thericanteur.

Montserrat Mendez, writer, (he/him, a playwright from Rincon, Puerto Rico, won the 2008 New York International Fringe Festival Best Playwriting Award for The Importance of Being Earnest Part Deux: Thoroughly Stupid Things. Montserrat was part of the 2024 People’s Theatre Project Playwrights Unit, where he wrote the Guantanamo PTSD comedy drama, Sombraluz O La Presencia. He is a core work member of Flux Theatre Ensemble, where he completed this play and the upcoming A Full-Blown Horror Story. His writing explores wit, character, and social equity, reflecting his fascination with storytelling’s power to shape identity and promote a more equitable future. He is a proud member of The Dramatists Guild.