Lindsay Mendez most recently starred on stage in the critically acclaimed, Tony Award-winning Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along opposite Jonathan Groff and Daniel Radcliffe. She reprised her Tony-nominated performance as Mary Flynn from the NYTW run, which garnered her the Outer Critics Circle Award, Drama League, Drama Desk, and Lortel nominations. In 2018, Mendez won the Tony Award as well as the Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards for her performance as Carrie Pipperidge in the revival of Carousel. 

On television, she starred in the FX anthology series American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez from Executive Producer Ryan Murphy as well as the Warner Bros television drama All Rise for CBS and OWN. 

Broadway credits include: Significant Other, Wicked (Elphaba, 10^th Anniversary company), Godspell, Everyday Rapture, and Grease. Off-Broadway/regional credits include: The Golden Apple (City Center Encores!), Dogfight (Second Stage; Drama Desk, Drama League, and Outer Critics Circle nominations), The Rose Tattoo (Williamstown Theatre Festival), 35mm, and The Winter’s Tale (Delacorte Theater). 

In addition to a debut album titled This Time, her concert work includes appearances with Lincoln Center’s American Songbook, the Library of Congress in Washington DC, the Kennedy Center, Feinstein's/54 Below in NYC, Lyrics and Lyricists, the San Diego Symphony, and the American Pops Orchestra. Other television and film credits include: Station 19, Elementary, Modern Family, Smash, Murphy Brown, Joanna Gleason’s feature debut The Grotto, and most recently the independent film These Little Ones Perish. 

In 2012, Mendez co-founded Actor Therapy, a training and mentorship program that she runs in New York City, with composer Ryan Scott Oliver.