Melanie is a freelance theatre director based in Ōtautahi Christchurch. She holds a Master of Theatre Arts (Directing) from Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School & Victoria University and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Canterbury.
She is a previous Associate Director of The Court Theatre. Her Court Theatre directing credits include Groundswell, The Great Art War, Constellations, In The Next Room, or the vibrator play, A Streetcar Named Desire, and ONCE the Musical.
Melanie is the Artistic Director of Cubbin Theatre Company for whom she has created and directed Up and Away, Play Play, Me and My Nana, and Sportsball. Mel is a board member of PAYPA (Performing Arts and Young People Aotearoa).
Court Shows
- 2024 - A Doll’s House - Director
- 2021 - Once - Director
- 2020 - A Streetcar Named Desire - Director
- 2018 - In the Next Room, or the vibrator play - Director
- 2018 - - Director
- 2016 - Macbeth - Assistant Director
- 2016 - Badjelly The Witch - Director
- 2015 - Youth Reaction - Director
- 2015 - Constellations - Director
- 2014 - The Hound of the Baskervilles - Director
- 2014 - White Rabbit, Red Rabbit - Director
- 2014 - When the Rain Stops Falling - Assistant Director
- 2013 - The Mikado - Assistant Director
- 2013 - Beauty and the Beast - Director
- 2013 - Postal - Director
- 2013 - The Great Art War - Director
- 2013 - Groundswell: Stories from the Quake - Director
- 2012 - The Gingerbread Man - Director