Parity Productions promotes parity by empowering
women, trans, gender-expansive, and intersex artists in theatre.
ANNOUNCING OUR 2025
PARITY DEVELOPMENT AWARD WINNERS!
MONET HURST-MENDOZA AND DOM MARTELLO
Applications for the 2026 Parity Development Award
will open on Monday, February 16th at 12:00 pm EST!
Monet Hurst-Mendoza is an NYC-based playwright and TV writer originally from Los Angeles. In 2025, she received the Helen Merrill Award for Playwriting and a NYSCA grant for her play cycle about working-class women in Yucatán. Monet was a writer/producer for "Law & Order: SVU" and is a member of The Kilroys, Dramatist Guild, and WGAE.
Dom Martello’s work has been developed with Breaking the Binary, The Road Theater, The Workshop Theater, and The Elif Collective. Dom is a Celebration Theater Rites of Passage Commission Recipient with their play substantiation. Their play RED TIDE was the inaugural reading for the Blue Roses Project (produced by James McBride & Gideon Glick). Dom is a Truman Capote Fellow and a Brooklyn College MFA Playwriting ‘27 Candidate.