Marissa Díaz is a Tejana writer, director, and producer who is a writer on LOPEZ VS. LOPEZ (NBC). Most recently, Marissa was named the grand prize winner of McDonald’s Spotlight Dorado, and received a $75,000 grant to write and direct FANCY FLOREZ’S SUMMER STAYCATION. The film won her a Telly Award for excellence in Branded Content and a yearlong creative residency and brand partnership with McDonald’s. 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. Her work has been supported by a number of industry fellowships including the Sundance Episodic Lab, the Film Independent + FX Imaginar TV Incubator for Fearless Latinx Creators, Shondaland + 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.