PRESS

June 18, 2024

Westword: Take a Look Back at ’80s Denver in Restored Horror Film The Jar, aka Charon

May 15, 2024

Westword: Adult & Cult Legend Ginger Lynn Allen is Coming to Denver

January 4, 2024

Westword: January Giallo is Denver's Best Film Series for Horror Fans

9/14/23

Cinematic Void podcast

Ep. 76: Theresa Mercado of Scream Screen

3/3/23

Westword: The Archive Video Store in Aurora shows "Physical Media isn't Dead"

April 18, 2023

Westword: Watch The Hills Have Eyes From a Desert Hot Spring at Scream Screen's One-of-a-Kind Event

1/11/21

Blank Slate Elyria interview by Zach Butcher

w/ Theresa Mercado

July 26, 2020

COFOH Live & Undead Podcast

w/ Theresa Mercado of Scream Screen!

March 7, 2020

Fighting in the War Room Podcast

Curb Your Enthusiasm, Dead-End Drive-In, Current CGI Animation Crisis?

February 29, 2020

Bleedingcool.com

DEAD END DRIVE-IN Used a 1986 Vocab to Show Us Our World Today

February 25, 2020

Bleedingcool.com

Theresa Mercado Is Planning to Scare You: "Dead End Drive-In", Scream Screens, and How to Program a Film Series

February 19, 2020

COFOH Live & Undead Podcast

w/ Theresa Mercado

August 6, 2019

Westword

"Sundown on Venus" Wants to Help Preserve Denver Punk History

September 22, 2017

303 Magazine

SIE FILMCENTER AND CHURCH FIRE TEAM-UP FOR UNIQUE “CREEPSHOW” PERFORMANCE

June 23, 2015

Westword

Scream Screen moves to the Sie FilmCenter

January 8, 2015

Westword

Church of Coen Worships Filmmaking Brothers

January 24, 2014

Westword

Inside Denver's New Neo-Cult Series Channel Z

January 8, 2014

Westword

Keith Garcia & Theresa Mercado launch Channel Z

July 5, 2013

Dear Denver

February 6, 2020

Westword

Josiah Hesse Summons Up a Haunted Writer's Retreat - With Cannabis

ACCOLADES

2019

Westword Best of Denver

Best Live Music with a Horror Film - Scream Screen

2017

Westword Best of Denver

Best Movie Theater Programming

2017

Westword Best of Denver

Best Film Series with Bands - Scream Screen

November 8, 2016

100 Colorado Creatives 3.0

2016

Westword Best of Denver

Best Recurring Classic Film Series - Scream Screen

2015

Westword Best of Denver

Best Bloodthirsty Film Host - Theresa Mercado

2014

Westword Best of Denver

Best Free Scare - Cruel Summer Horror Film Series

FILM PROGRAMMING / HOSTING

June 25, 2015 - present

Scream Screen

Sie FilmCenter, Denver Film Society, CO

January 28, 2015 - March 2015

Scream Screen

Alamo Drafthouse Littleton, CO

January 2015 - July 2016

Dirty & Divine

Fort Greene, Denver, CO

January 11, 2015 - July 10, 2016

Church of Coen

Syntax Physic Opera, Denver, CO

January 1, 2014 - December 24, 2014

Channel Z

Alamo Drafthouse Littleton, CO

Cruel Summer Film Series

Crash 45, Denver, CO

PRODUCED EVENTS

July, 2019

Sara Splatter's Bordello of Blood

DJ Night at Tooey's Off Colfax

June, 2019

Cult Legacy Launch Party

w/ Already Dead, French Kettle Station and DJ Sara Splatter

January, 2019

City Hunter "Deep Blood"

Album Release Show at Syntax Physic Opera

October, 2017

Slideshow of the Dead

At 1010 Workshop

2016

Slim Cessna's Auto Club NYE Show

Co-Designer / Producer frozen shipwreck themed party

July, 2013

Denver County Fair "2nd Annual Corpses & Crowns"

Zombie Beauty Pageant - Second Place Winner

March, 2013

Horror Brunch

at the Stanley Film Festival

July, 2012

Denver County Fair "1st Annual Corpses & Crowns"

Zombie Beauty Pageant - First Place Winner

October, 2011

Surgery Dinner

FILM / TELEVISION PRODUCTION

2017

JonBenet's Tricycle (Independent Feature Documentary)

Line Producer

Late Night Denver (The Lip TV)

Music Segment Producer

2013 - 2015

Prospectors (The Weather Channel)

Line Producer (27 episodes)

2009 - 2013

Cake Boss (TLC)

Line Producer (6 episodes), Jr. Line Producer (44 episodes), Associate Producer (54 episodes)

2010 - 2012

Next Great Baker (TLC)

Jr. Line Producer (5 episodes)

2012

Kitchen Boss (TLC)

Line Producer (40 episodes)

2011

HGTV: Making of Our Magazine (HGTV)

Line Producer (half-hour tv special)

Unwrapped (Food Network)

Associate Producer (26 episodes)

2009

My First Place (HGTV)

Casting (Season 11)

2009

My Big Amazing Renovation (HGTV)

Casting (2 episodes)

FILM APPEARANCES

2017

78/52: Hitchcock's Shower Scene

As Victim in Shower

2017

JonBenet's Tricycle

As Herself

2014

Doc of the Dead

As Herself

2007

Single White Fowl

As Herself / Victim

MUSIC VIDEOS

June 12, 2018

Echo Beds "Still Body"

As Woman in Black #2, Director: Vincent Comparetto

2016

DBUK "Uncle John's Boat"

As Boat Captain, Director: Ted Thacker

2016

Extra Kool "Rabbit Ears"

As Dark Witch, Director: Richard Taylor

MISC

November 2021

Gather 'Round for a Fearful Tale

A Folk Horror Conversation with Kier-la Janisse at Denver Film Festival 2021

September, 2020

Colorado Festival of Horror 'Live and Undead Podcast': Grieving

Jan, 2019 - present

Cult Legacy

Co-Founder / Co-Owner

July, 2019

Sundown on Venus Radio Podcast

Guest

January, 2019

The Narrators - "Habit"

November 8, 2017

The Narrators - "Making A Scene"

As part of the 40th Denver Film Festival

December 21, 2016

The Narrators - "Parents Just Don't Understand"

4/16/16

Audiobooks for the Damned

David Cronenberg’s RABID read by Theresa Mercado

April, 2014

Sounds on 29th

Host: Season 3, Episode 1 and Episode 17

2012 - 2013

Colorado Cactus and Succulent Society

President

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