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Melanie
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Anthony
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Biography
Melanie Anthony (she,her/s). As a Los Angeles-based dramaturg focused on production dramaturgy, literary management, and audience engagement dramaturgy for theater, film and documentary media, I am as interested in how we engage in theater-making and community-building practices as I am in being an artistic partner in the creative process.
Credits include: KENNEDY CENTER AMERICAN COLLEGE THEATER FESTIVAL CONFERENCE Region 8 Dramaturgy Chair/Coordinator. Dramaturg & Talkback Moderator, MODERN WORKS FESTIVAL 2024 for emerging and established female playwrights (Urbanite Theatre, Sarasota, FL) with Lia Romeo (A NICE MOTHERLY PERSON), Sarah Elizabeth Grace (I’M SAVING YOU A SEAT), and Baylee Shlichtman (IN THE MOUTH OF THE BEAST). Artist Panel Reader, 2023, 2024 JEWISH PLAYS PROJECT contest and Workshop Dramaturg, 2024 for JPP Finalist Daniel Ajl Kitrosser (WHY THIS NIGHT, A TYPICAL 19th CENTURY QUEER SHETEL SEDER MURDER MYSTERY!). Juror, 2022 RISK THEATER MODERN TRAGEDY COMPETITION and Workshop Dramaturg for winner Franky D. Gonzalez (THAT MUST BE THE ENTRANCE TO HEAVEN). Literary Manager and Dramaturg, 2023/Dramaturg, 2021 NEW WORKS FESTIVALS to amplify marginalized voices and increase representation on the stage (Morgan-Wixson Theatre, Santa Monica, CA) including works by Khari Wyatt (SOME TYPE OF ECSTASY), Danielle Frimer (MONARCHS), Amy Dellagiarino (NO LOITERING), Dorinne Kondo (SEAMLESS), LaDarrion Williams (BOULEVARD OF BOLD DREAMS), and Diana Burbano (BEHEADING COLUMBUS); creator, 2023 Playwrights’ Gatherings informal developmental programming for the 2023 Festival. 2022-2023 season audience-facing dramaturgy and 2025, 2026 seasons selection/reading committee (Morgan-Wixson Theatre).
Other dramaturgical projects include consultation for award-winning documentary short films, dramaturgical collaboration in the UK, and creator/collaborator of the 2022 LMDA international conference panel “Ambassadors, Advocates & Artists – How Early Career Dramaturgs Create Art and Help Define Community Through Community Theater.”
Kennedy Center-LMDA Dramaturgy Intensive Fellow, KCACTF National Dramaturgy Fellow, KCACTF Regional Dramaturg awardee, and 25th annual Association of Theater in Higher Education (ATHE) Dramaturgy Debut Panel (2021). B.A. in Humanities: Dramatic Literature and Criticism concentrating on Dramaturgy, Directing and Journalism at UC Irvine, a busy personal and professional life, and returning student course work at Santa Monica College. My dramaturgical view also reflects lived experience as an award-winning documentarian, museum educator, STEAM instructor-advocate-activist, local social justice participant, mom, caregiver and concerned voter. I’m a proud member of the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA).
Let’s connect! IG: em.anthony_ and on FB: Melanie Anthony
Credits include: KENNEDY CENTER AMERICAN COLLEGE THEATER FESTIVAL CONFERENCE Region 8 Dramaturgy Chair/Coordinator. Dramaturg & Talkback Moderator, MODERN WORKS FESTIVAL 2024 for emerging and established female playwrights (Urbanite Theatre, Sarasota, FL) with Lia Romeo (A NICE MOTHERLY PERSON), Sarah Elizabeth Grace (I’M SAVING YOU A SEAT), and Baylee Shlichtman (IN THE MOUTH OF THE BEAST). Artist Panel Reader, 2023, 2024 JEWISH PLAYS PROJECT contest and Workshop Dramaturg, 2024 for JPP Finalist Daniel Ajl Kitrosser (WHY THIS NIGHT, A TYPICAL 19th CENTURY QUEER SHETEL SEDER MURDER MYSTERY!). Juror, 2022 RISK THEATER MODERN TRAGEDY COMPETITION and Workshop Dramaturg for winner Franky D. Gonzalez (THAT MUST BE THE ENTRANCE TO HEAVEN). Literary Manager and Dramaturg, 2023/Dramaturg, 2021 NEW WORKS FESTIVALS to amplify marginalized voices and increase representation on the stage (Morgan-Wixson Theatre, Santa Monica, CA) including works by Khari Wyatt (SOME TYPE OF ECSTASY), Danielle Frimer (MONARCHS), Amy Dellagiarino (NO LOITERING), Dorinne Kondo (SEAMLESS), LaDarrion Williams (BOULEVARD OF BOLD DREAMS), and Diana Burbano (BEHEADING COLUMBUS); creator, 2023 Playwrights’ Gatherings informal developmental programming for the 2023 Festival. 2022-2023 season audience-facing dramaturgy and 2025, 2026 seasons selection/reading committee (Morgan-Wixson Theatre).
Other dramaturgical projects include consultation for award-winning documentary short films, dramaturgical collaboration in the UK, and creator/collaborator of the 2022 LMDA international conference panel “Ambassadors, Advocates & Artists – How Early Career Dramaturgs Create Art and Help Define Community Through Community Theater.”
Kennedy Center-LMDA Dramaturgy Intensive Fellow, KCACTF National Dramaturgy Fellow, KCACTF Regional Dramaturg awardee, and 25th annual Association of Theater in Higher Education (ATHE) Dramaturgy Debut Panel (2021). B.A. in Humanities: Dramatic Literature and Criticism concentrating on Dramaturgy, Directing and Journalism at UC Irvine, a busy personal and professional life, and returning student course work at Santa Monica College. My dramaturgical view also reflects lived experience as an award-winning documentarian, museum educator, STEAM instructor-advocate-activist, local social justice participant, mom, caregiver and concerned voter. I’m a proud member of the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA).
Let’s connect! IG: em.anthony_ and on FB: Melanie Anthony
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English
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