As he spoke the first name, the half silence became a dense one. Its tension caught the reader, there was emotion in it, shared between him and them [the audience] and it turned all his attention away from himself onto the subject matter he was speaking.
Peter Brook, The Empty Space
Fresh Ink Theatre
presents
Priscilla Dreams the Answer
by Walt McGough
Directed by Melanie Garber
Dec 8- 17, Factory Theatre
http://www.freshinktheatre.com/index.html
Gan-e-meed Theatre Project
Not a Box Festival
Directing The Internet Means Never Having to say Goodbye
by N. Harrison Ripps
Dec 1- 4, Boston Playwrights' Theatre
http://www.ganemeed.org/
Education
Emerson College, Boston, MA, B.A. Theater Education and Acting, 2009 Hangar Theater Lab Company Ithaca, NY, Directing
Directing Experience
Actors Shakespeare Project, Boston, MA April '10-Feb '12
•Assistant Director for Medea, Director David Gammons (upcoming Feb '12) •Assistant Director for Henry IV Parts 1 & 2, Director Patrick Swanson •Assistant Director for Timon of Athens, Director Bill Barclay
Fresh Ink Theatre Boston, MA
•Director for Priscilla Dreams the Answer by Walt McGough Oct-Dec '11
Gan-e-meed Theatre Project, Boston, MA Dec '11 •Director for Not a Box Play Festival, The Internet Means Never Having to Say Goodbye by N. Harrison Rips
Queer Soup Theatre Boston, MA
•Director for Quick Pick Festival, three short new works mounted at BPT Sept 2011
Whistler in the Dark Boston, MA
Assistant Director for Aunt Dan and Lemon, Director, Bridget O'Leary Mar-May'11
11:11 Theatre Company, Boston, MA Aug-Oct 10 •Director for Poe; A Fever Dream, Adaptations of Tell-Tale Heart, Mask of the Red Death and The Conquerer Worm
Boston Actors Theatre, Boston, MA May-Aug 10 •Director for Light Comes and Turtles by Sarah Moon, Boston Greenfest 10, Summer Play Festival 2010
New England Russian Theatre Festival, Boston Playwrights Theatre Dec 09-Feb 09 •Voted Best Director at the 2010 New England Russian Theatre Festival
Hangar Theatre LAB Company, Hangar Theatre, Ithaca, NY May 09-August 09 •Assistant Directed Once on This Island, Armchair Traveler, and Adventures of a Bear Called Paddington
•Directed and conceived Scene Specific, Sight Specific, a series of Shakespearean scenes performed in unconventional spaces
Related Experience
The Huntington Theatre Company Boston, MA Script Supervisor, Child Wrangler, 35 Below Ambassador Sept 09-Mar10 •Took notes on line accuracy for Becky Shaw, Directed by Peter Dubois •Supervised child actors in productions of: Fences, A Civil War Christmas, and All My Sons
11:11 Theatre Company Boston, MA Artistic Associate June 10-Present •Originator and organizer of Rare Words, 11:11's premier Reading Series
GAN-e-meed Theatre Project Assistant Production Manager for Hamlet March 09-May10 •Organized house management team, obtained price quotes/props, organized transportation for actors/crew
Citi Performing Arts Center Boston, MA Education Department Intern Sept-Nov09 •Answered phones, filed papers, organized filing system, made signs, wrote postings for future programs •Assisted students aged 12-18 write their own devised work
Produced Plays______________________________________________
The Dearest Joy
New England Russian Theatre Festival, Boston Playwrights Theatre
Boston, MA 2009
Sheila
Boston Actors Theatre, Boston Playwrights Theatre
Boston, MA 2010
You Say Tomatoes
Mill 6 Collaborative, The Factory Theatre
Staged Readings______________________________________________
A Work in Progress
Whistler in the Dark, The Factory Theatre
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
Gan-e-meed Theatre Project, Elizabeth Peabody House
Somerville, MA 2010
Two People: A Series of Shorts
Provincetown Theatre Company, Provincetown Theatre
Provincetown, MA 2011
Related Experience______________________________________________
The South End News Boston, MA
Contributing Writer November 2010-Present
The Huntington Theatre Company Boston, MA Script Supervisor Feb-March 2010 •Took notes on line accuracy for Becky Shaw, Directed by Peter Dubois
11:11 Theatre Company Boston, MA Artistic Associate June 10-June 11 •Originator and organizer of Rare Words.11:11's premier Reading Series 2011
Elsevier Publishing Burlington, MA Desk Clerk Employee Summer 2006 •Worked with Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint to edit book materials
Anthony Dangerfield (Roy) and Kevin LaVelle (D) in You Say Tomatoes. Mill 6's T Plays 2010, Factory Theatre
Acting Experience________________________________________________________________________
Bear Patrol Huggy Bear Vaquero Playground
Dracula: ReVamped! Jonathan Harker imaginary beasts
Welcome to the Hate Stare Conservative Boston Theatre Marathon
American Tapestry Carmella u/s Theatre Espresso
Neighborhood 3 Madison Happy Medium Theatre
MilkMilkLemonade Elliot * * Heart and Dagger
Pillow Talking Pillow One Holland Productions
Keno Lottery (Industrial) Waitress/Cashier GTECH Corporation
Gotta Get An Arm Ella Rough Week
Emerging America '10 Performer A.R.T.
C'mere Verne Hangar Theatre
What of the Night? Rainbow Emerson College
The Persians Atossa Emerson College
Measure for Measure Isabella New Voices, New Visions
**HUBBIE Award Winner for Oustanding Individual Performance by an Actor or Actress, The Hub Reveiw
Education________________________________________________________________________________
Emerson College, B.A. Theatre Education and Acting, 2009
Hangar Lab Company Member
Skills______________________________________________________________________________________
Character/Child voiceover, British, Southern, Irish accents, beat-boxing, hula-hoop, great with kids, Forrest yoga, experimental movement
As the role of Huggy Bear in John J. King's Bear Patrol, Boston Playwright's Theatre, Boston, MA, March 2011
Priscilla Dreams the Answer by Walt McGough
Fresh Ink Theatre Company
"Under Melanie Garber’s direction, the play whips by so quickly, you hardly have time to wonder what’s real and what isn’t."
- The Boston Globe
"Garber has formed the five actors into a cohesive ensemble that also relates well with the very closely situated audience."
- Broadway World
"Garber stages the play so it swirls around you, drawing you in to the story until you forget everything else but Priscilla, her problems and the unusual guest that are there to help her."
-Boston Event Guide
"The movement designed by Garber gives the play a dance-like....poetic quality of whimsy that tends to get lost in the reality of day-to-day life."
-The New England Theatre Geek
MilkMilkLemonade by Joshua Conkel
Heart & Dagger Productions
"played in convincing drag by Melanie Garber"
"Pelletier and Garber turned up the heat in every scene they shared with each other."
-My Theatre
"local bully Elliott (a highly convincing Melanie Garber, even when she's not sporting a penis)"
-Thomas Garvey, The Hub Review
"[In] their (Pelletier and Garber's) play-acting of a loutish husband and a sighing, dramatically affected wife (you can guess who takes which part), the two are hilarious. It’s like watching Tennessee Williams on mushrooms."
-EDGE Boston
11:11 Theatre Company Boston, MA Artistic Associate June 10-Present •Originator and organizer of Rare Words.11:11's premier Reading Series 2011
Acting Experience________________________________________
MilkMilkLemonade Elliot Heart and Dagger
Education_____________________________________________________________________
Skills________________________________________________________________________________
Awards____________________________________________________
HUBBIE for Outstanding Individual Performance by an Actor or Actress
as Elliot in MilkMilkLemonade from The Hub Reveiw
