Marissa Díaz is a Tejana writer, director, and producer. Most recently, Marissa was named the winner of McDonald’s Spotlight Dorado short film competition, and received a $75,000 grant to write and direct FANCY FLOREZ’S SUMMER STAYCATION. Before that, Marissa wrote and produced the feature documentary, ORGASM INC: THE STORY OF ONETASTE (Netflix.) She worked on hit series GIRLS (HBO), produced queer teen series GENERATION (HBOMax), and wrote WELCOME TO THE BLUMHOUSE LIVE (Amazon Studios). Previously, she worked at Lena Dunham’s Good Thing Going, Fox Searchlight, MGM Studios, Bravo TV, Martin Scorsese’s Sikelia Productions, and The Weinstein Company. Marissa’s half-hour comedy COCHINAS was selected for The Black List + Netflix’s Latinx List, an industry-curated list that highlights 10 exemplary film and television screenplays from talented Latinx storytellers. Her work has been supported by a number of industry fellowships including the Sundance Episodic Lab, the Shondaland and SeriesFest Women Directing Mentorship, Dan Lin’s Rideback Rise, the Producers Guild of America’s Create Lab, and Film Independent’s Episodic Lab and their CNN Original Series Docuseries Intensive. Marissa holds a BFA in Film & TV Production from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, and an MFA from the Peter Stark Producing Program at the University of Southern California, where she was awarded the Stark Special Production Grant for writing and directing.