I have directed people of all ages and skill levels, from grade-school children to seasoned professionals, on shoestring budgets and in well-equipped theaters with wizardly crews and everything in between.
I was the first woman to direct a mainstage production at Trinity Rep, the Tony Award-winning regional theater in Providence, Rhode Island. From 2008 to 2010, I served as Artistic Director of Little Fish Theatre in San Pedro, the bustling port of Los Angeles. When my daughters were younger, I created a program in the elementary school, staging adaptations of books and plays that introduced hundreds of children to the magic of theater.
I have been blessed to work with many superb talents and wonderful spirits - performers, designers, crafters - and, of course, the amazing playwrights who continue to change the way I look at the world.
THE WAX MUSEUM by John Hawkes - Brown University/Trinity Rep - with Monique Fowler & Mallory Maxwell
TWELFTH NIGHT by William Shakespeare - Brown University Thesis Production - with Brad Brockmann, Andrew Tonks & Susan Connors
TALLEY'S FOLLY by Lanford Wilson - Trinity Rep - with Amy Van Nostrand & Richard Kneeland
CRIMES OF THE HEART by Beth Henley - Little Fish Theatre - with Lynn Alliston Dickson, Heather Handwerk & Sarah McKenna
A CHRISTMAS CAROL adapted from Charles Dickens by Adrian Hall and Richard Cummings - Trinity Rep - with George Martin and Richard Jenkins
IN THE JAR by Mark Harvey Levine - Little Fish Theatre - with (from left) Linda Steelman, Corina Bowler, Rachel Levy, Art Krispin & Sarah McKenna
FULLY COMMITTED by Becky Mode - Little Fish Theatre - performed by Sam Lloyd
AN ALMOST PERFECT PERSON by Judith Ross - Trinity Rep - with Margo Skinner & Peter Gerety
COLONIAL FOLLIES by Melanie Jones - Harbor Magnet/Park Western Place School - This is the student-designed, student-printed program cover.
HEDDA GABLER by Henrik Ibsen - Little Fish Theatre - with Kalie Quinones
A PLAY OF ONE'S OWN by Barbara Bejoian - Edinburgh Festival Fringe - with Alysia Reiner
ARMS AND THE MAN by Bernard Shaw - Little Fish Theatre - with Isaac Nippert, David Graham & Meghann Baker
THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL by Richard Brinsley Sheridan - Little Fish Theatre - with Thor Edgell
WHAT THE BUTLER SAW by Joe Orton - Little Fish Theatre - with Rebecca Sigl, Rodney Rincon & Mark A. Cross
LOUDMOUTH CHOWDER by Joanne Green-Levine and Melanie Jones - originally presented as part of the Los Angeles Olympic Arts Festival - performed by Joanne Green-Levine
MENOPAUSE MAMA - written by and performed by Rose Weaver - Little Fish Theatre
MOUSE SOUP A New Musical based on the book by Arnold Lobel by Melanie Jones & George Howe -- first produced by Curtains Up!