(they/she). Member of Unkle Dave’s Fight-House and proud New Yorker committed to building confidence in brown and black girls through storytelling.  Rocio was recently nominated for two Drama Desk Awards and the resident Intimacy Director at Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Rocio is also an award-winning actor. rociomendez.com Credits include: Broadway: POTUS, AIN’T NO MO, Merrily We Roll Along. The Metropolitan Opera: Fire Shut Up In My Bones, Eurydice, Rigoletto, Lucia. Off-Broadway/Regional Theater: The Great Gatsby (Paper Mill Playhouse), How To Defend Yourself, On Sugarland (NYTW), The Bandaged Place (Roundabout), The Harder They Come, Merry Wives, Romeo y Julieta (Public Theater), Black No More (The New Group), NIOR (The Alley Theater), Vietgone, The Royale (Geva Theater Center), The Wolves (Actors Theater of Louisville), Secret Life of Bees (Atlantic Theater Company). The Three Musketeers, Romeo and Juliet, RENT, Twelfth Night, King John, Confederates, It’s Christmas, Carol! (OSF).