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Fight Director & Intimacy Director, Macbeth and Jane Eyre

At OSF: Intimacy Director, 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