A director, writer and performance maker, Mel is the Co-Artistic Director of Lost and Found Opera. Recent works include The Trial (Perth Festival & Lost and Found Opera with WA Opera and WASO); The Children (Black Swan State Theatre Company); The Fairy Queen (WAAPA); Mary Stuart (Perth Festival & Performing Lines); The Watsons (WAAPA); Whale Fall (Perth Festival / PICA); Nocturna (The Kabuki Drop); The Arsonists (WAAPA); Slap and Tickle (Adelaide Cabaret Festival); Blink (Perth Winter Arts Festival) and The Elders Project (Fremantle Festival). Highlights from her previous role as Artistic Director of Perth Theatre Company include Tender Napalm; The Ugly One; Blackbird; Equus; From the Rubble; The Goat; A Number; Speed the Plow; The Removalists. Mel has received numerous awards for her work and was the recipient of an Emerging Leader’s fellowship from ISPA (The International Society for the Performing Arts). She has a BA (Film, ECU) and post-graduate Bachelor of Performing Arts (Directing, WAAPA). Mel has been a guest lecturer and director for Notre Dame; ECU and WAAPA and has been commissioned by PICA; Playlab; BSSTC; City of Perth; Lotterywest & Barking Gecko.
