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 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’s half-hour pilot 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, supported by Latin Tracking Board, Untitled Latinx Project, and NALIP. 

Marissa is a Film Independent + Netflix Episodic Lab Fellow, a Film Independent + CNN Original Series Docuseries Fellow, and a Producers Guild of America + Google Create Fellow.

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.