Marissa Díaz is a Tejana writer, director, and producer. She works across mediums including scripted and unscripted film, television, and interactive media. Most recently, Marissa wrote and produced ORGASM INC: THE STORY OF ONETASTE, a feature documentary for Netflix. She worked on HBO’s hit series GIRLS, produced queer teen series GENERATION for HBOMax, and wrote WELCOME TO THE BLUMHOUSE LIVE, an interactive film event, for Blumhouse and 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 was selected as a finalist in McDonald’s Spotlight Dorado short film contest and received a $75,000 grant to write and direct FANCY FLOREZ’S SUMMER STAYCATION. Her 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, sponsored by Latin Tracking Board, Untitled Latinx Project, and NALIP. Her work has been supported by a number of industry fellowships including the Sundance Episodic Lab, Dan Lin's Rideback Rise, the Film Independent Episodic Lab, the Film Independent + CNN Original Series Docuseries Intensive, and the Producers Guild of America Create Lab. 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 and the Robert S. Ferguson Marketing Award in Television.