Melanie Anthony (she/hers) is a production dramaturg, new play festival literary manager, inquiry-based new work developer, award-winning documentarian, and audience engagement creator/moderator focused on amplifying underrepresented voices. As (Kennedy Center) American College Theater Festival (ACTF) Pacific Southwest Region Dramaturgy Chair-Coordinator, she has expanded programming, representation and mentorship. Nationally, she has been festival dramaturg and talkback moderator for Urbanite Theater Modern Works Festival, Risk Theater Modern Tragedy Competition, and a workshop dramaturg for Jewish Plays Project (JPP). In Los Angeles, she has developed artist opportunities and fostered community as Literary Manager and Dramaturg for the Venice Voices Festival and Morgan-Wixson Theatre New Works Festivals, serves as Company Dramaturg for Santa Monica Rep, and as a co-Producer of the JPP Los Angeles contest. Respondent-evaluator credits include: Playwrights’ Center, MADLab-Moving Arts, and Risk Theatre. Production and audience-facing dramaturgical credits include world premieres at Urbanite Theater and Pacific Resident Theater. Experience in programming, PR-marketing and administration in the museum, education, and political worlds as well as parenting, caregiving, and social justice engagement all inform her work. Member, Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA).