About Melee...

Melee has been a working actor for twenty years. She trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama graduating with the James Bridie Medal and the Citizen’s Theatre Award. She holds an MFA in Acting from York University and a Graduate Certificate in the Teaching of Acting, also from York.

As an actor she has won the London New Play Festival Best Actress Award for her role as Julie in Wendy Hammond’s “Julie Johnson” and originated the role of Farrah Delamitri in Ben Elton’s Laurence Olivier Award winning West End hit “Popcorn” and was in the original West End production of Timberlake Wertenbaker’s Olivier Award winning “Our Country’s Good”

As well as her acting work in Canada, Melee has worked with some of Britain’s best directors - Max Stafford Clark, (Royal Court Theatre/ Out of Joint) Peter Gill, (Royal National Theatre of Great Britain) Simon Curtis, (Royal Court Theatre, Head of Drama BBC), Philip Howard (Artistic Director of the innovative Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh) as well as playwrights Phyllis Nagy, (Disappeared, Weldon Rising, Butterfly Kiss) Jim Cartwright, (Road, Two) Timberlake Wertenbaker (Our Country’s Good, The Grace of Mary Traverse). She knows first hand the tools actors need to make a performance live - both in the moment and over a long theatre run.

Melee trained as an acting teacher with David Rotenberg (Artistic Director Professional Actor’s lab) and Paul Lampert at York University. She currently teaches in the Acting Conservatory Programme at York, and at Professional Actor’s Lab in downtown Toronto..