Mellissa Marlowe is a director, performer, writer, and costumer for the theatre, who specializes in bringing new works to the stage and adapting classics for modern audiences. She has written several short plays that have been produced on local stages, and she has performed in over fifty theatre productions and directed more than forty plays.  Her work as a performer has been described as “haunting” at times and as “wickedly funny” at other times.  Her work as a director is provocative and captivating.  Mellissa firmly believes that theatre has a dual purpose – to provoke and to entertain.  Her aesthetic is visually spare and aurally intoxicating.  Her focus is on ideas and words; the “music” of the production is always clearly communicated.  She has a great love of people and great hope for the future.

Mellissa holds a B.A. in Drama from Trinity University, and an M.A. in Theatre Arts from Texas State University.  She is an Assistant Professor and the Coordinator of the Drama Program at Northwest Vista College.

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As a theatre artist, my aesthetic is simple – the words are where it’s at!  The spoken word is powerful – enough to change the course of history. When combined with beautiful spare visual and musical elements, the spoken word makes magic happen.  I specialize in bringing new and newly adapted works to modern audiences.  Classics are deemed so because they speak powerfully of universal human emotions.  They may be updated simply to communicate with today’s theatre audiences, which are constantly changing and growing.  I believe in theatre as collaborative effort.  The Theatre is a place where all the arts may come together to create one work – visual art, media arts, music, and dance are all elements of modern theatre production.  It takes a village…  As an educator, it is my job to bring a new generation to the theatre, not only as performers, designers, and technicians, but also as audience members.  I help others to experience and understand the power of live theatre – the most powerful means we have to share our stories with others.

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