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Melissa Ross

MELISSA ROSS

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    The Gersh Agency, NY  represented by Jessica Amato

Plays include THINNER THAN WATER, YOU ARE HERE, DO SOMETHING PRETTY, THE ALLIES, and NICE GIRL. THINNER THAN WATER was originally produced by Labyrinth Theater Company and is included in the anthology New Playwrights: Best Plays of 2011 by Smith and Kraus. It received its Chicago premiere spring 2014 at The Gift Theatre. Melissa has had readings and workshops with The Amoralists, The Cherry Lane Theater, Dorset Theater Festival, The Juilliard School, Labyrinth Theater Company, LCT3, Manhattan Theater Club, Montana Rep, New York Stage and Film, The New Group, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, and The Pacific Playwrights Festival. Her play OF GOOD STOCK will receive its world premiere at South Coast Repertory in 2015. Melissa is a graduate of Bennington College, was a Lila Acheson Wallace Playwriting Fellow at The Juilliard School, and is a two-time recipient of the Le Comte Du Nouy Award. She is a proud member of the Dorothy Strelsin New American Writers Group at Primary Stages and Labyrinth Theater Company.

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below is a list of Melissa Ross's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Allies, The         Do Something Pretty         Nice Girl         Of Good Stock         Thinner Than Water         Too Much Too Soon         You Are Here

Allies, The

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Do Something Pretty

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Nice Girl

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In suburban Massachusetts in 1984, thirty seven year old Josephine Rosen has a dead end job, still lives with her mother, and has settled into the uncomfortable comfort of an unintended spinsterhood. But when a chance flirtation with a old classmate and a new friendship at work give her hope for the possibility of change, she dusts off the Jane Fonda tapes, and begins to take tentative steps towards a new life. A play about the tragedy and joy of figuring out who you are and letting go of who you were supposed to be.

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Dramatists Play Service, Inc. NY (2015)   978-0-8222-3376-3

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Of Good Stock

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The three Stockton sisters are witty, brilliant, beautifuland a total mess, thanks to the legacy of their complicated novelist father. In OF GOOD STOCK, these women gather at their family home on Cape Cod for a summer weekend. Their reunion ignites passions, humor, and wildly unanticipated upheavals. With her signature poignancy, Melissa Ross takes a hilarious look at the fun and dysfunction of that thing we call family.

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South Coast Repertory    2015

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Dramatists Play Service, Inc. NY (2015)   978-0-8222-3374-9

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Thinner Than Water

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Martin is debt ridden, gambling addicted, pissed as hell, and dying. Unfortunately his three estranged children couldn't care less. Instead they argue with each other and everyone around them in a desperate struggle to do the right thing and mend their rapidly deteriorating lives. As the world around them crumbles, they are each surprised to discover family in unexpected places. Whether a spouse, a friend, or a chance encounter with a random stranger blood is often Thinner Than Water.
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Cherry Pit, 155 Bank Street, New York, NY 10014    15 Feb 2011

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LAByrinth Theater Company

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Dramatists Play Service, Inc. NY (2015)   978-0-8222-3219-3

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Too Much Too Soon

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Too Much Too Soon is a collection of short plays commissioned by Red Elevator Productions and Lesser America. the production is a sequel to Red Elevator's Too Little Too Late, that ran at HERE Arts Center in 2010 and that earned three New York Innovative theater Award nominations, including Best Short Play, Best Actress in a Featured Role, and Best Ensemble. It included work by Lucy Alibar (Sundance Screenwriting Award), Bekah Brunstetter (Be A Good Little Widow), Sam Forman (the Moscows of Nantucket), Amy Herzog (4000 Miles - Lincoln Center, After the Revolution - Playwrights Horizons), Elizabeth Meriwether (No Strings Attached, New Girl) and Daniel Talbott (Yosemite - Rattlestick, theater Hall of Fame Fellowship Award). Following Too Little Too Late's example, Too Much Too Soon will spotlight the work of promising and fiercely adventurous playwrights with distinct and diverse voices.
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An evening of short plays by Nikole Beckwith, Dean Imperial, Nick Jones, Melissa Ross, Emily Schwend And Ken Urban

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Theater for the New City
155 First AVenue, New York, NY 10009    29 Sep 2011

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You Are Here

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