Hi, I’m Melissa. I’m an award-winning actor, writer and producer with over 15 years experience in theatre, film, television and digital media.

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I’ve been obsessed with musical theatre and film since I first watched Judy Garland look wistfully to the sky and sing about rainbows and bluebirds. A maker of both film and theatre, I love to collaborate with artists to craft stories that inspire, entertain and challenge audiences. My projects have travelled the world; I’m grateful that sometimes I’ve even got to go with them!

 

Credits include:

Film

• Award-winning Directorial debut with the feature film Mother of All Shows

• Winner of Outstanding Narrative Feature and Outstanding Director of a Feature at the 2023 Art of Brooklyn Film Festival for Mother of All Shows 

• Starring and co-directing the post-apocalyptic Western films Six Days to Die and Six Guns for Hire

• Cayle Chernin Media Arts Award for the film script The Female Front

• Producer of feature films award-winning Mother Father Sister Brother Frank

• Co-director of upcoming Paige Darcy and the Case of the Stoned Cat with Matthew Campagna

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Highball.TV

• Co-founder of the international film festival streaming site Highball.TV

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Theatre

• Collaboration with Nightwood Theatre, Canadian Stage, and Tarragon Theatre

• Mentoring for the A.M.Y. Project, Theatre Revolve, Women on Screen, and the Paprika Festival

• Original live work featured at the Rhubarb Festival, UNO Festival, Harbourfront Centre, and Luminato

• Co-creator of the play Daughter, which had an international tour, was nominated for 4 Dora Awards, and received rave reviews at the Sydney Fest and Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Published by Nick Hern Books.

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Digital Media

• Canadian Screen Award for performance in the digital series Tactical Girls

• Man of Steel Song won the Silver Dragon at DragonCon Film Festival in Atlanta

 

In 2018 I launched the international film festival streaming site, Highball.TV, a co-venture with my partner Matt Campagna. We have collaborated on over a dozen film and digital projects through our production company Goldstrike Pictures.

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