MozzleStead is an innovative creative partnership between actor/producer Armistead Johnson and writer/director/producer Montserrat Mendez that puts its focus on passionate storytelling, compelling characters and creating unforgettable experiences for audiences across all forms of media including theatre, film, television and digital entertainment.
Montserrat "Mozzle" Mendez
Mozzle's screenplay TRIAL was on of the top thirty screenplays in the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences Nicholl Fellowship Competition in 2004. His stage comedy THOROUGHLY STUPID THINGS was called “a comic masterwork!” By Backstage and won the Excellence in Playwrighting Award at the 2008 New York International Fringe Festival. In 2010, he founded MozzleStead with his writing partner Armistead Johnson to develop film and television product. Currently for film, Mozzle is writing BLANCO, about cocaine queen of Miami, Griselda Blanco for producer Nicholas Gray and with Mr. Johnson is working on CHISHOLM, a film about Shirley Chisholm America’s first black congresswoman who made a courageous run for the Democratic Presidential Nomination in 1972. He is in charge of MozzleStead’s one-hour development slate; which has yielded the comedy drama, Starlet and the C.I.A. drama Langley.
Check out www.montserratmendez.com. |
ArmiStead Johnson
is a successful stage actor in New York and has appeared in two of Mozzle’s stage plays, Hush Little Baby and the New York Innovative Theatre Award nominated Billy Carver and the Children in Mind. In 2010 he began a transition into television writing and partnered up with Montserrat Mendez to form MozzleStead to develop film and television properties. Since its inception Armistead has headed up the company’s comedy development slate. Developing the web-series comedy Polltakers and the television sitcoms, 15 Minutes and Belles. He also created the dramatic anthology series Heartset House. He is currently working with Mozzle on Chisholm, the inspiring story of Shirley Chisholm’s who was the first black congresswoman and also the first to run for President and The Bitter Woods – A Vengeance Fantasia, based on Mozzle’s graphic novel concept.
For more information, check out www.armisteadjohnson.com. |




