Melissa Rocha is a Bushwick based veteran comedian and producer behind a new show called, “Latina Nite.”

I have had the pleasure of knowing Melissa for 2 years. We met at a Brooklyn storytelling art gallery show in the summer of 2016 and each performed unprepared stories about an important event in our lives.

She told a moving story about leaving an ex-boyfriend making an emotional experience full of humor and laughs making the audience cry with her. I went up after her telling a story about my Abuelita walking in on my re-enacting the boat sinking scene from Titanic when I was 6, I cried too. After the show we introduced ourselves and the rest is history.