MELANIE S. ARMER
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​Here's my directing resume.


For Nerve Tank Media – Co-founder & Artistic Director   
All pieces conceived and written by co-founder Chance Muehleck and developed with the company unless otherwise noted.

  Saturn's Return – co-produced with and presented by Tompkins Corner Cultural Center August 2021
  The Attendants 2020  - commissioned & co-produced by Arts Brookfield for their online series June 2020
  How To Explain Theater to a Dead Audience – co-produced with and presented by Perform @ Chinatown Soup
  Project Woyzeck – co-produced with and presented by The Performance Project at University Settlement June 2017
              (Adaptation by Melanie Armer, Additional text by Chance Muehleck)

  The Maiden – co-produced with LaMama ETC in The Club April 2014 
  Glory Road
(interactive installation) - commissioned & co-produced by Arts Brookfield at the Grace Plaza November 2013
 
10% Nation- presented at Dixon Place 2012
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The Attendants (interactive installation) - commissioned by Arts Brookfield & presented at the Arts World Financial Ctr 2011 
  Opal - presented at Incubator Arts Project 2011 
  Pitch! (or something sexy) - commissioned by The Tank, 2010 
  LIVE/FEED - produced by The Nerve Tank in residence at The Brooklyn Lyceum 2010 
  bauhaus the bauhaus - produced by The Nerve Tank in residence at The Brooklyn Lyceum 2009
  A Gathering - produced by The Nerve Tank in residence at The Brooklyn Lyceum 2009 
  In the Heart of a Chinese Curse - produced by The Nerve Tank at Grethe Holby Studio 2007


For The New Circle Theatre Company – co-Artistic Director 2017-2019   
  Betsy Ross Lies – by Ed Valentine at the Michael Warren Powell Creative Center as a part of the Sandbox Series  April 2019
  Consumption – by Ed Valentine at the Gene Frankel Theatre as a part of the Inferno Series: Lust & Gluttony June 2018 
  Tooth of Winter - by Ed Valentine at The Playroom as a part of the Inferno Series: Limbo June 2017

NEW YORK CITY – Independent Theater  
​My work in the NYC “indie theater” scene began with the Circle Rep Theater Company where I directed over 25 fully staged productions for Michael Warren Powell's Lab as well as readings and workshops of many plays. Working with writers as a dramaturg became an ongoing feature in my work with both established and developing writers. I was also affiliated with the Ensemble Studio Theater for a short time, and directed many productions in the NYC Fringe. The list below is a sampling of the work I have done in 25 years of working in this community. Most of these works are world premieres.

  For A Girl To Disappear by Larissa Kiel at HERE Arts Center 
  Scout’s Honor! by Ed Valentine for 2007 Fringe NYC at the Players Theater 
  Laundry Service by Beth Novick for The 2006 Samuel French Festival (finalist) 
  System Eternal by Chance Muehleck for 2005 Fringe NYC at the SoHo Playhouse 
  Kicking & Screaming (& additional book) by Jennifer Jiles for Workshop Theater Co. & Ars Nova 2003 
  Tagging April by Chance Muehleck at The Danny Kaye Playhouse 2003 & The Flux Theater festival in Pittsburgh
  Our Father’s House by Chance D. Muehleck at Milagro Theater for Screaming Venus 2002 
  The Last Nickel by Jane Shepard, at Theater for the New City for 2002 FringeNYC 
  Eating the Dead by Jane Shepard at Center Stage for LIVE Theater Company 2002 
  The Honeypot Redux & Devil Fingers by Chance Muehleck at CAP 21 for LIVE Theater Company 2001 
  The Honeypot Redux by Chance Muehleck at The Turbulence Theater Co. 2001 
  Floating by Catherine Gillette at Vital Theater Co. 2001
  Playwriting 101: The Rooftop Lesson by Rich Orloff for Word of Mouth at Greenwich House 2000
  The Pain In The Poetry by Glenn Alterman for The Turnip Theater Festival 1998
  Falling Grace by Mark Scharf  atThe Kraine Theater 1998
  Flamenco by Shawn Hirabayashi at Circle-In-the-Square for Circle East 1998, Theater 22 for Circle East 1998
           & NYSSSA at Adelphi University 1998
  Babylonian Tony by Timothy Mason at The INTAR Theater for Circle East 1998, Circle-in-the-Square for Circle East 1998
           & The Carmel Performing Arts Festival 1998
  Voices by Kim Anderson at The Ensemble Studio Theater 1997
  A Rage Of Chaos by Jane Shepard (featuring Circle Rep Artistic Director Michael Warren Powell) at The Westbank Theater
          for Circle East 1996,  Judson Memorial Church 1996, NYSSSA at Adelphi University 1996, One Dream Theater 1997,
          The Duplex for Circle East 1997, Carmel Performing Arts Festival 1997, INTAR Theater 1998
  Last Lap by Nancy Donahue at Circle-in-the-Square for Circle East 1996 & The Westbank 1996
  Cats in The Sun by Nancy Donahue at Circle-in-the-Square for Circle Rep 1995, The Westbank Theater 1995 & NYSSSA 
          at Adelphi University 1995
  The Man Who Couldn’t Dance by Jason Katims at Circle-in-the-Square for Circle Rep 1995           

REGIONAL THEATER
  Terminal Lucidity by Amy Bernstein at Baltimore Theater Project –Baltimore, MD 2018
  Hamlet: See What I See for Rebel & Misfit Productions at the Barnett on Washington, St Louis MO 2016 
  The Cay by Gayle Cornelison at Prime Stage – Pittsburgh, PA 2005
  As Bees in Honey Drown by Douglas Carter Beane  at Open Stage Theater – Pittsburgh, PA 2005
  A Gathering by Chance Muehleck   at Open Stage Theater –Pittsburgh, PA 2004
  Tagging April by Chance Muehleck   for Bare Bones Productions –Pittsburgh, PA 2004
  Sympathetic Magic by Lanford Wilson  at Open Stage Theater - Pittsburgh, PA 2004
  The Man Who Tried to Save the World by Artistic Director Gerome Davis  based on the book by Scott Anderson:  
          A development workshop for the Burning Coal Theater - Raleigh NC 2003


UNIVERSITY THEATER PROJECTS
  A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare at The Mansion on Post Campus – Long Island University Undergraduate
          program, April 2022

  Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury at The Little Theatre on Post Campus – Long Island University Graduate program, Nov. 2019
  UBU ROI by Alfred Jarrey at The Little Theatre on Post Campus – Long Island University Undergraduate program, October 2018
  Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare (adapted for five players) – Long Island University Graduate program, May 2018

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR 
  Wait Until Dark by Frederick Knott  – Assistant Director to Leonard Foglia on the 1998 Broadway revival with Stephen Lang,
          Marisa Tomei and Quentin Tarrantino at The Brooks Atkinson Theater
  Cheat by Julie Jensen – Assistant Director to Joan Vail Thorne for the Women’s Project 2002
  The Louis Slotin Sonata by Paul Mullin – Assistant Director to David Moore at Ensemble Studio Theater 2001
  A Sense of Place by Lanford Wilson – Assistant Director to Michael Warren Powell 1998 Original Workshop Production
          with The Cape Cod Theater Project

RADIO/PODCAST 

  Saturn's Return by Chance Muehleck, Podcast for Nerve Tank Media 2022
  Dreamland by Chance Muehleck, Podcast for Nerve Tank Media 2019
  
Save Me by Ty Adams for National Public Radio, September 1999
 

TEACHING POSITIONS 
  Adjunct Professor, Theater Department, Point Park University 2005
  Associate Professor, Dance Department, Marymount Manhattan College 2002
  Playwriting Teacher/Mentor in S.T.A.C Advanced After-School Program, Long Island school system 2002
  Academic Advisor at Western New England College; directed Skin Of Our Teeth by Thorton Wilder 1991

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS 
  Artistic Director and Co-founder of Nerve Tank Media, 2006-current
  Co-Artistic Director of New Circle Theatre Company, 2017-2019
  Managing Director of Open Stage Theater, Pittsburgh, PA, 2004
  Alumnus of Lincoln Center Directors Lab (2006) & Director's Lab West (2018)
  Founding Member of Circle East – formerly Circle Repertory Lab

EDUCATION
  B.A. Theater, University of Massachusetts (Co-founder and president of Student Valley Productions)
  Poetics Precision Workshop (Lecoq derived technique) Elena Zucker, 2009
  Noguchi Gymnastics Workshop with Butoh Master Mari Osanai, 2008
  Workshop with Butoh Master Ko Morobushi, 2007
  Master Class with Lawrence Sacharow Alaska Summer Conference, 2004
  Master Class with Joseph Chaikin, 2000
  Shakespeare and Company Intensive taught by Tina Packer, Kristen Linklater and Kevin Coleman

REFERENCES
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