read an interview with Melissa about her design process in The Brooklyn Rail (Dec 11-Jan 12)
Screenplay
The Flea Theater
Dir. Jim Simpson
Playwright: A.R. Gurney
Jabu
The Flea Theater
Dir. Elizabeth Swados
Henry Hewes Award nominated design
Factory Girls
Williamstown Theatre Festival
Dir. Nye Heron
With Kate Burton and Celia Weston
Babylove
45 Bleecker Street
Dir. Julie Kramer/Christen Clifford
Much Ado About Nothing
Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival
Dir. John Christian Plummer
Shotgun
Florida Studio Theatre
Dir. Kate Alexander
The Lake
The Flea Theater
Dir. Hayley Finn
Playwright: Gary Winter
Iphigenia at Aulis
The Pearl Theater Company
Dir. Shepard Sobel
The Interlude
La Mama
Dir. Kimberly Ima
Ashley Montana Goes Ashore in the Caicos
The Flea Theater
Dir. Jim Simpson
with Bebe Neuwirth
Sophistry
Beckett Theatre
Dir. James Warwick
Playwright: Jonathan Marc Sherman
The Way of the World
Fordham University Theatre Department
Dir. Moritz von Stuelpnagel
Accomplice
Two River Theatre
Dir. Daniel Gerroll
The Woman Before
HERE Arts Center
Dir. Daniel Fish
Playwright: R. Schimmelpfenning
The Shoebox of Ebbets Field
Cherry Lane Alternative
Dir. Hayley Finn
Rocket to the Moon
Shubert Theatre
Dir. Kenneth Washington
A Heartbeat to Baghdad
The Flea Theater
Dir. Jim Simpson
Playwright: Glyn O'Malley
Kate Crackernuts
The Flea Theater
Dir. Hayley Finn
Playwright: Sheila Callaghan
The Orchard
Dorset Theatre Festival
Dir. B.T. McNichol
Curse of the Starving Class
University of Rochester International Theatre Program
Dir. Moritz Von Stuelpnagel
The Rover
Pope Theatre, Fordham University
Dir. Michael Goldfried
Mimesophobia
SPF Festival
Dir. Matthew August
None of the Above
Lion Theater
Dir. Julie Kramer
Refreshment of the Spirit
Cherry Lane Alternative
Dir. Anne Kaufman
Playwright: Anne Washburn
Meet John Doe
NYMF New York
Dir. Matthew August
Sliding into The Beast
NYU / Tisch and New York Theatre Workshop
Dir. Jim Calder
The Lunch Anxieties
The Lion Theatre
Dir. Michael Rupert
Do Gooder Productions
Così fan tutte
Delaware Valley Opera
Dir. Sam Helfrich
Madama Butterfly
Berkshire Opera Company
Dir. Gregory Keller
The Secret Agent
Center for Contemporary Opera
Dir. Sam Helfrich
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / Camera Obscura
Eos Orchestra
Dir. Peter Kazaras
West Side Story
El Paso Opera
Dir. David Grabarkewitz
Vinkensport, or The Finch Opera
Bard Graduate Vocal Arts Program
Dir. Dan Rigazzi
L'Heure Espagnole
Berkshire Opera Company
Dir. Gregory Keller
The Christmas Story (Schutz)
Eos Orchestra
Dir. Peter Kazaras
Song from the Uproar: The Lives and Deaths of Isabelle Eberhardt
Bard Graduate Vocal Arts Program
Dir. Dan Rigazzi
L'Enfant et les sortilèges
Bard Graduate Vocal Arts Program
Dir. Dan Rigazzi
Schubert Unfinished / Refinished
Eos Orchestra
Dir. Peter Kazaras
The Old Maid and the Thief
Berkshire Opera
Dir. Gregory Keller
Chrysalis
Chor. Jonathan Fredrickson
Stiff
Dance New Amsterdam
Chor. Neta Pulvermacher
Rainbow Girl
The Flea Theater
Chor. Neta Pulvermacher
In Full Swing
Joyce Theater
Chor. Charlotte Griffin
Again There's Only Darkness
2nd Avenue Dance Company
Chor. Jennifer Freedman
B.A. Brown University: Theatre, Speech, and Dance / Psychology
M.F.A. NYU Tisch School of the Arts: Costume Design