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Intimacy Director: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Come From Away, August Wilson’s King Hedley II, Yellow Face, You Are Cordially Invited to the End of the World!, Smote This, A Comedy About God…and other Serious $H*T, The Taming of the Shrew, Henry IV, Part One, Emma
Fight Director: You Are Cordially Invited to the End of the World!, August Wilson’s King Hedley II, The Taming of the Shrew, Emma
Associate Fight Director: Midsummer Night’s Dream, Come From Away, Yellow Face, Henry IV, Part One
At OSF: Fight Director: Fat Ham, Macbeth, Jane Eyre. Intimacy Director, Julius Caesar, Jitney, Fat Ham, As You Like It, Quixote Nuevo, Shane, Macbeth, Jane Eyre, Romeo and Juliet, Rent, Twelfth Night, The Three Musketeers; Associate Fight Director, The Three Musketeers. Intimacy Director, King John, Confederates, It’s Christmas, Carol! Member of Unkle Dave’s Fight-House and proud New Yorker committed to building confidence in brown and black girls through storytelling. Credits include: Broadway:POTUS, AIN’T NO MO. The Metropolitan Opera: Fire Shut Up in My Bones, Eurydice, Rigoletto, Rodelinda, Lucia. Off-Broadway/regional theatre: How to Defend Yourself, On Sugarland (NYTW), The Bandaged Place (Roundabout), Your Own Personal Exegesis (LCT3) 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). Rocio is also a fight director and an award-winning actor. www.rociomendez.com