Careena Melia 200 W 20th Street New York, NY Current. Artistic Director / Founder, Walden Shakespeare

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1 Careena Melia 200 W 20th Street New York, NY careenamelia@gmail.com Current Visiting Assistant Professor, Muhlenberg College Artistic Director / Founder, Walden Shakespeare present present Education Master of Fine Arts, American Repertory Theatre / Moscow Art Theatre* Institute at Harvard University 2009 *Three month residency in Moscow, Russia Bachelor of Arts, Sarah Lawrence College 1995 Year long residency, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland Walnut Hill School for the Performing Arts,* Natick, MA *Conservatory, Dance and Theatre major Certifications Fitzmaurice Voicework Certification, Associate Teacher 2014 Certification, Unarmed Stage Combat, American Repertory Theatre 2009 Certification, Yoga Teacher Training*, Center for Yoga, Los Angeles, CA *Anusara, Iyengar, Vinyasa Professional Memberships Actors Equity Association 1996 Screen Actors Guild / AFTRA 2001 Voice and Speech Trainers Association 2011 The Actors Center, Ron Van Lieu: Chairman 2011 Association of Movement Educators 2011 NY Women in Television and Film 2013 Harvardwood 2009 Teaching Experience Visiting Assistant Professor, Muhlenberg College Acting I - Undergraduate Actors Acting II - Undergraduate Actors On Camera - Advanced Undergraduate Actors

2 Acting Classical Verse - Advanced Undergraduate Actors Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Iowa: Grant Wood Fellow, Devised Theatre Acting I - Undergraduate Actors Collaborative Performance - Theatre, Art, Music and Dance Graduate Students Guest Lecture : Theatre for Social Change, Graduate Directors Guest Lecture : Staging Americans, Undergraduate Actors Iowa City Senior Center: Devised Autobiographies: River Stories Project ArtShare workshop : Movement / Viewpoints ArtShare workshop: Shakespeare / Voice ArtShare workshop: Acting / Ensemble work ArtShare workshop: Monologues Workshop, ICU, University of Iowa, Grant Wood Fellowship 2015 Two day workshop on cancer in performance with cancer survivors Guest Lecture, Coe College, Cedar Rapids Iowa 2015 Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Iowa 2013 Voice for the Actor Undergraduate Actors Shakespeare and Heightened Text Graduate Actors Devised Theatre: Workshop Undergraduate and Graduate Actors Embodying Shakespeare's Verse: Workshop Graduate Playwrights Private Instructor: Voice Dialects (Irish, British RP, Eastern European, Russian ) Acting Shakespeare and Text Teacher, Punchdrunk Theatre Company, NY Text for Dancers Trainer for new company members, various roles Guest Artist, Acton Boxborough High School Workshop: Voice and Shakespeare 2014 Workshop: Voice and Shakespeare 2013 Commonplace Dancers, Cambridge, MA Dance and Movement with Senior Community Members Guest Teaching Artist, Stoneham Summer Intensive, Stoneham, MA Dance Ensemble Performing Voice and Dialects Teaching Artist, Summer Arts Workshop, Concord, MA Improvisational Theatre Teacher, Mirman School for the Gifted, Los Angeles, CA Acting Dance

3 Teaching Artist, Youth Academy of Dramatic Arts, Los Angeles, CA Acting Dance Teacher, Superkids Winter Intensive, Los Angeles, CA Improvisation Co-Founder, Director and Teacher, La Ti Da Kids, Los Angeles, CA Theatre Yoga and Movement for Kids Music Producing, Devised Work, Directing and Choreography The Gertrude Bell Project (Writer, Producer, Actor) - Boston Center for the Arts 2016 Titus Andronicus (Director, Producer) Walden Shakespeare 2016 Staged Reading, all female cast A Midsummer Night s Dream (Producer, Director) Walden Shakespeare 2015 Gertrude Bell Project (Devised Work,Writer) University of Iowa, Grant Wood Fellowship Primary Grant Wood Project while in residence ICU, Complicite Theatre Company (Devising Workshop, Ensemble) 2015 Workshop on Performance and cancer with cancer survivors In The Cellar ( Devised Work, Director) University of Iowa 2015 Devised Work based on life and art of Grant Wood River Stories (Devised work, Director) Iowa City Senior Center 2015 Outreach project - Devised work based on autobiographies The Library (Director), Riverside Theatre, Iowa City, Iowa 2015 Workshop reading of Scott Burn s play about the aftermath of a school shooting Worth Fighting For (Devised Work, Director) Grant Wood Fellowship 2014 Pop up performance piece in conjunction with Liz Lerman s production of Healing Wars Women s Titus Project (Workshop), University of Iowa, Grant Wood Fellowship Project 2014 All female movement / devising exploration using Titus Andronicus text Macbeth ( Co- director and associate producer ), Shelter Theatre Group, NY 2014 Sleep No More (Devised Work ) Punchdrunk Theatre Company, New York 2013 Created the material for roles of Hecate and Matron Lang. Collaborated on Banquo one on one Glass Jaw (Devised Work ) Project Limb, Brooklyn, NY 2013 Created original material for and collaborated on movement based outdoor site specific piece Sleep No More/ MIT Project (Devised Work) Punchdrunk Theatre Company NY 2012 Created one on one material for online interactive project with MIT Media Lab Minsky's Bar (Devised Work) Punchdrunk Theatre Company and MIT Media Lab 2010 Created original material for piece at MIT Media Lab Office Situations, (Devised Work, Workshop) Louis Vuitton Headquarters, NY Role playing problematic situations with senior company / management Divorce and Law, ( Improvisatory Theatre ) Harvard Law School Role playing tricky divorce settlement with Harvard Law students

4 47 Ways to Die (Choreography) Club Oberon, American Repertory Theatre 2010 Choreography: Opening sequence Experiment America (Devised Work) American Repertory Theatre/ Institute of Contemporary Art 2010 Collaborated on site specific installation performance piece Commonplace Dance Company (Choreographer/ Director) Cambridge, MA Choreography, Holiday dance piece Sleep No More (Devised Work) Punchdrunk Theatre Company/ American Repertory Theatre 2009 Created all material for role of Hecate - US premiere Ajax in Iraq (Devised Work) American Repertory Theatre Institute Collaboration with playwright Ellen McLaughlin The Discreet Charm of Monsieur Jordan ( Choreography) Moscow Art Theatre Institute 2008 Choreography Fashion Designer Dance, Dance captain, assistant choreographer Gertrude's Map (Devised Work) American Repertory Theatre Institute 2008 Created and directed original piece based on Gertrude Bell Comfort Women (Devised Work) American Repertory Theatre Institute 2007 Created and directed art installation/ performance piece about Korean Comfort women in WWII Piece of Home (Devised Work) American Repertory Theatre Institute 2008 Created and directed an original movement piece based on women in the military The Dream (Devised Work) Moscow Art Theatre Studio, Moscow, Russia 2008 Created and directed an original piece based on Ostrovsky's The Forest Faded Coat of Blue (Devised Work) American Repertory Theatre Institute 2008 Created and directed an original movement/ music piece based on letters from the Civil War Joyce and Julius (Devised Work) American Repertory Theatre Institute 2007 Created and directed an original piece based on everyday people Military role reversal (Devised Work) American Repertory Theatre Institute 2007 Original piece about sexism in the military Hello, Dolly (Assistant Director) Mirman School for the Gifted, Los Angeles, CA Assistant Director, Assistant choreographer Boy Meets Girl, (Assistant Director) Mirman School for the Gifted, Los Angeles, CA Annie (Director, Choreographer) Youth Academy of Performing Arts 2006 Voice/ Dialect Coaching Voice coach, University of Iowa, Theatre Arts, Order Now 2014 Voice and Dialect coach, University of Iowa, Theatre Arts, Water by the Spoonful 2013 Voice and Dialect coach, University of Iowa, Theatre Arts, The Imaginary Invalid 2013 Voice coach, University of Iowa, Theatre Arts, The Playwright 2013 Voice coaching at School of Medicine, University of Iowa, IA Voice and Text coach, role: Puck, Midsummer Night's Dream, Brooklyn, New York 2013 Voice and Text coach, Much Ado About Nothing, Island Shakespeare, NY 2012 Voice coach, Urinetown Acton Boxborough High School, Acton, MA Dialect Research, Johnny Baseball, American Repertory Theatre, Cambridge, MA. 2010

5 Dialect Research and Compilation, Gillian Lane Plescia Accents of New England CD 2009 Private Dialect Coach, Irish Dialects, Los Angeles, CA Acting : Stage Gertrude Bell Project, Gertrude Bell, Grant Wood Fellowship Presentation 2015 Romeo and Juliet, Romeo, Shelter Theatre Group, NY 2014 Merchant of Venice, Portia, Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles 2014 Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, Shelter Theatre Group, NY 2014 Sleep No More*, Hecate and Matron Lang, Punchdrunk Theatre Company, NY *2011 winner Drama Desk Award and Alliance Award for Unique Theatrical Experience Drama League Nomination Distinguished Performance, Ensemble 2011 Winner OBIE, Design Macbeth*, Lady Macbeth, Empirical Rogue Theatre Company, NY 2013 *Benefit performance Glass Jaw, Ensemble, Project Limb, Brooklyn, NY Hamlet, Gertrude,Empirical Rogue Theatre Company, NY 2011 Sleep No More*, Hecate, Punchdrunk Theatre Company/ American Repertory Theatre *Elliot Norton Award Outstanding Theatrical Experience Minsky's Bar, Lola, Punchdrunk Theater Company/ MIT Media Lab 2010 Experiment America, Ensemble, American Repertory Theatre 2010 The Leer Sisters (staged reading), Regan, American Repertory Theatre 2009 Trojan Barbie*, Helen of Troy, American Repertory Theatre 2009 *World Premiere Seriously Funny, Various, American Repertory Theatre Institute 2009 The Seagull, Nina -Understudy, American Repertory Theatre, Dir. Janos Szsas 2009 Largo Desolato, Susanna, American Repertory Theatre Institute 2009 Ajax in Iraq, Gertrude Bell, American Repertory Theatre Institute, Dir. Scott Zigler 2008 The Discreet Charm of Monsieur Jordain, Composer, American Repertory Theatre 2008 Institute, Dir. Dimitry Troyanovsky Oblomov, Olga, Moscow Art Theatre Institute, Moscow, Russia 2008 The Forest, Raisa, Moscow Art Theatre Institute, Moscow, Russia 2008 Romeo and Juliet, Juliet, Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles 2002 Shamrock, Fiona, Sundance Film Festival script workshop, NYC 2000 Moby Dick Rehearsed, Cordelia/Pip, BerkshireTheatre Festival, MA Macbeth, Third Weird Sister, Theatre for a New Audience, NY, Dir. Ron Daniels 1999 The One Eyed Man is King, Sarah, GeVa Theatre, Rochester, NY 1998 Ah, Wilderness, Muriel, The Huntington Theatre, Dir. Kyle Donnelly 1998 All The Rage, Annabelle Lee, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, Dir. Chris Coleman 1997 The Tempest, Miranda,Great Lakes Theatre Festival 1997 Sunnyside, Sarah, Irish Repertory Theatre 1997 Sunday Mornings, Siobhan, Irish Repertory Theatre 1997

6 Anne Frank and Me, Mimi Baker, American Jewish Theatre 1996 The Playboy of the Western World, Susan Brady, Alpha Omega Theatre Company 1996 Much Ado About Nothing, Hero, Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Touring Company 1995 La Dispute, Egle, Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Touring Company 1995 The Visions of Simone Machard, Simone, Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Touring 1995 Company All My Sons, Anne, Samuel Beckett Center, Dublin, Ireland 1994 Lisa on the Couch, Lisa, Samuel Beckett Center, Dublin, Ireland 1993 The Madwoman of Challiot, Ensemble, Williamstown Theatre Festival 1993 Beckett Shorts, Various, Williamstown Theatre Festival,Directors Projects 1993 The Jaguar Child, The Snake, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Children's Theatre 1993 Acting: On-Camera The Good Wife, Guest Star, CBS 2012 WAKE, Lead, San Francisco Film School, Short 2005 JAG, Guest Star, CBS 2002 Moonlight Mile, Featured*, Dir. Brad Silberling, Paramount Pictures 2002 *With Dustin Hoffman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Susan Sarandon My Best Friend's Wife, Featured, Bridge and Tunnel Productions 2001 XCU:Extreme Close Up, Lead, Crystal Lake Entertainment Wheels of Justice, Guest Star, TNT 2000 Under Hellgate Bridge, Lead, CaVu Pictures 2000 Songs In Ordinary Time, Lead*, Dir. Rob Holcomb, CBS 2000 *With Sissy Spacek, Keir Dullea and Beau Bridges Touched By an Angel, Guest Lead, CBS 2000 Shakespeare in America, Lead,ABC Special 1999 Two Way Crossing, Lead, Saachi Productions 1998 The Dark Light, Featured, Omega Pictures 1997 Awards and Distinctions Sleep No More: Drama League Award Nomination: Distinguished Performance 2011 Guest Speaker*, Shakespeare and Adaptation, Shakespeare Society, Lincoln Center *With Diane Paulus and Marjorie Garber 2011 Additional Professional Training Linklater Intensive : Shakespeare, Body and Voice, Linklater Center, NY 2013 Pamela Prather, Fitzmaurice Workshop: Laughing Voice 2013 Tiffany Little CanfIeld: Television and Film Intensive 2013 Diana Castle: Acting class, 2100 Square Feet, Los Angeles, CA Michael Howard Studio: Audition Intensive, NY 1999

7 Michael Howard Studio: Television and Film Intensive, NY 1999 Abbey Theatre, Dublin, Ireland: Internship 1994 Williamstown Theatre Festival Summer Intensive 1993 Circle in the Square Summer Institute 1992 Centre De Danse De Rosella Hightower, Summer Company Training, Cannes, France 1990 Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet Summer Intensive Boston Ballet School References: Beth Schachter Chair - Theatre Department Muhlenberg College Beth.Schachter@gw.muhlenberg.edu Nancy Houfek Former Head of Voice and Speech American Repertory Theatre nancy@nancyhoufek.com Maura Pilcher Director - Grant Wood Art Colony University of Iowa maura-pilcher@uiowa.edu Anne Marie Nest Assistant Professor of Theatre / Former Head of Voice University of Iowa annemarienest@gmail.com