Melissa Martin is an award winning producer/writer/director working in independent film, and theatre. She teaches Graduate Screenwriting and Graduate Directing for Film.
Martin has an MFA from Carnegie Mellon School of Drama’s Dramatic Writing Program and has taught in the school since 2004. Martin is the Producer /Writer/ Director of The Bread, My Sweet, a critically acclaimed, award winning, commercially successful, independent film. An award winner on the film festival scene, The Bread, My Sweet screened at more than twenty festivals and was released theatrically nation-wide. It was distributed world-wide by Fox International, streaming by Universal/Screen Media, and on ShowTime, Starz, The Sundance Channel and network television. Martin wrote the screenplay for Dear Zoe (Zin Haze Productions/Sadie Sink, Jessica Capshaw) released 11/22. Martin’s current directing project, Basic Psyche, (an indie feature with Michael Cerveris, David Conrad, and Cotter Smith) is in post-production. Dog Bytes, a web series on which Martin is a writer and director has garnered international attention: the first episode is an award-winning stand-alone short; both it and the full series have screened at more than twenty film festivals, among them Berlin, Cape Fear and Cannes. Flour Baby, a short Martin directed also screened at multiple film festivals. Other work includes Paper Umbrellas (short), I’ll Call You (web series), Come With Me (pilot), The Cookie Table (short), A Weekend in Toronto (short).
Rob Handel
Professor of Dramatic Writing Area Chair, Dramatic Writing
Rob Handel is a librettist and playwright. LOOKING AT YOU, a surveillance capitalism opera with music by Kamala Sankaram, was produced at HERE after development by The Civilians R&D Group, BRIC, and Opera America. The original cast recording, on the Bright Shiny Things label, reached the top ten on the Billboard traditional classical chart and was included in Opera News’s five best new works of 2021.
Further works by Sankaram & Handel include THE INFINITE ENERGY OF ADA LOVELACE (a scientific romance), ALL DECISIONS WILL BE MADE BY CONSENSUS (the first live Zoom opera), ONLY YOU WILL RECOGNIZE THE SIGNAL (a space opera serial), and BOMBAY RICKEY MEETS THE PSYCHOLOGY OF DESIRE (a cabaret). Productions include the Prototype festival at HERE, Tête à Tête in London, Opera Ithaca, New Camerata Opera, Opera Theater of Yale College, Boston University, and 3rd Eye in Chicago.
Handel‘s plays have been produced and developed by New York Stage and Film, Long Wharf, Target Margin, Rorschach Theatre, Just Theater/Shotgun Players, Curious Theatre, the Royal Court, Donmar Warehouse, National Playwrights Conference, Soho Rep, Portland Center Stage, and Theater am Käfigturm in Bern, Switzerland. Upcoming: THE ARTWORK OF THE FUTURE, a science fiction opera with music by Eric Moe.
Handel was a member of the theater company 13P, was a resident playwright at New Dramatists, and served on the board of the MacDowell Colony.
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