Ideas to reality
Melanie has worked with adolescents and teens for over 20 years. In that time, she has written, devised, produced, choreographed, directed, stage managed, and taught countless productions with young people. She has studied with the famed Herbert Berghof, attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, preformed for young audiences around the US, interned with a youth theater company in Cork, Ireland, and spent the bulk of her career working with middle school students in New York City on both musical productions and self written performances. <br>Since the inception of this project, Melanie has branched out into numerous other disciplines and mediums of creative communication, including community organizing, production of public art and activism, and other curatorial pursuits. <br>