Melisa Annis

Mêlisa is an award winning playwright, and as a playwright her plays have been developed and presented at and with Rosalind Productions, Primary Stages, Clutch Productions, BMG Music, Parity Productions, The Lark with Dorset Theater Festival at the Theresa Rebeck Writers Colony, The Wales Millennium Centre, Parsnip Ship, The New School, ESPA*Drills, The Lark, The National Arts Club NYC, The Playground Experiment, Rattlestick Theater, Tangent Theater, And ToTo Too Theatre Company, RAL, and Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center.​ Mêlisa was lead writer on radio series For Spacious Skies which was awarded the True West Award, CO. Mêlisa's short play "Beginnings" was awarded the Spirit of The Festival Award, 2021, Ireland.

As a director, Mêlisa has had the pleasure of working with and at; Red Bull Theater, NYC (Something in The Ground by Theresa Rebeck), Primary Stages, NYC (A Walk With Heifetz, The Clinic, A Christmas Carol), The Ambassadors Theatre Group, London (Tom & Jerry Vs Fred Quimby by James Inverne), The Arcola Theater, London (Remember the Future by Yasmine Lever), Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center CO (Matilda, the Musical - nominated for 19 Henry Awards), Athena Film Festival NYC (Lucky 13 by Denise Meyers), Shadowland Stages (The Night Alive, Mystery of Love & Sex, Disgraced), Rattlestick Theater NYC (Various Readings), Clutch Productions at HERE Art Space NYC (The Worth of Water), Tangent Theater NY (Circle Mirror Transformation), Queens College NYC (Hairspray, Xanadu, Mary Poppins), Rebellious Subjects NYC (Henry V, Twelfth Night), The Playground Experiment NYC, New York University NYC, Theater Masters FL. Line producer and creative producer credits include: The Waves in Quarantine (written by Lisa Peterson & Raul Esparza music by David Bucknam and Adam Gwon, dir Lisa Peterson) for Berkley Rep, and Glimpse (written and directed by Theresa Rebeck).

Personal essays have been published in several major publications (The Western Mail, Cara, Dinesydd, Salon, HowlRound), and she is a frequent contributor to the BBC, BBC Wales, BBC Radio Wales. Mêlisa is a proud fluent Welsh language speaker.