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Melle Powers
MELLE POWERS is an actress and writer who lives and works in New York City. Her solo show, Whence Came Ye Scarlett OHara OHanrahan?, enjoyed successful runs as part of the 2007 New York International Fringe Festival and the 2008 Frigid Festival. In 2006 she co-created the two-woman show The Adventures of Lock and Kay which ran at the UCB Theater. Off-Broadway she has appeared at Playwrights Horizons in the world premiere of Lynn Nottage's most recent play Fabulation, as well as Christopher Durangs Miss Witherspoon. She has been in many off-off Broadway productions. Ms. Powers is co-founder and served as managing producer of The Mud/Bone Collective. While managing producer, she co-produced workshops of original plays (most notably Tough Titty by Oni Faida Lampley, which was performed at Williamstown in the summer of 2005, and In the Continuum, which was produced off-Broadway by Primary Stages). Ms. Powers is a teaching artist, a certified CPR teacher, and a diversity trainer. She holds an MFA in Acting from NYU. Other projects include: film (MVP—2004 Sundance entry, and Why George?—upcoming release; and television (appeared regularly on Chappelles Show, as well as on Law and Order, One Life to Live, Guiding Light, and Why We Love Geeks on E). She has spent a year of her life traveling the world, teaching and performing Shakespeare, and she loves the Theater.
