Monet Hurst-Mendoza is an NYC-based playwright from Los Angeles, CA. Her plays have been developed with Rising Circle Theater Collective, |the claque|, Looking Glass Theatre (NYC), Amios, The Oneness Project, The Other Mirror, Magic Time @ Judson, The Kupferberg Center for the Arts, #serials@The Flea, WP Theater, and Playwright’s Playground at Classical Theatre of Harlem. She is a current member of the 2017 Emerging Writers Group at The Public Theater and is a 2016-2018 Van Lier Fellow at New Dramatists. Monet was a 2014-2016 WP Theater Lab Time Warner Foundation Fellow and has held residencies with The Other Mirror, The MITTEN Lab, and SPACE on Ryder Farm. She has been a finalist for Playwrights Week at The Lark (2011), Old Vic New Voices US/UK Exchange (2011), Many Voices Fellowship at The Playwright's Center (2013 & 2015), and the Leah Ryan FEWW Prize (Honorable Mention, 2017). Smith Prize for Political Theatre (2017) and Cherry Lane Mentor Project (2016 & 2018) nominations. Most recently, Monet worked as J.T. Rogers' assistant on the Tony-nominated Broadway production of OSLO at Lincoln Center Theater. She is a proud member of Rising Circle Theater Collective, where she co-facilitates INKtank/PlayRISE—a developmental writers lab and new works festival for emerging playwrights of color. B.A.: Marymount Manhattan College.