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Award-Winning Filmmaker
Melanie Gretchen is an independent filmmaker of the romance "Like a PowerPoint" and psychological thriller "The Back Garden."
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Melanie Gretchen
Melanie Gretchen, based in New York, is executive producer, writer, and lead actor in the award-winning short "Like a PowerPoint." Since it premiered in September 2022 at the Paris Independent Film Festival, it has won 24 awards for acting, directing, and composing. Her second short, "The Back Garden," just premiered in the Art is Alive Film Festival, and just screened in the Below the Line Film Festival.
Originally from the Bay Area, Melanie went to school in the Philippines, Malta, and Switzerland. After earning her bachelor's degree in journalism and theater from the University of Denver, she studied acting with the Atlantic Theater Company and Karen Kohlhaas in New York. She is a member of film/TV and theater unions, SAG-AFTRA and Actors Equity Association. She is the 10th person ever to complete Karen's 20 Monologue Challenge, to perform 20 memorized pieces consecutively, in the 10 to 15 years that Karen has offered it.
In addition, she started studying improv with Susan Messing and Rachael Mason in Chicago and Jennifer Bareilles in New York. She is a Founding Supporter of the Tennessee Williams Rectory Museum in Clarksdale, Mississippi, where the playwright grew up, and plays softball throughout New York City.