Anne DEMELO

Anne DeMelo is a director and writer working across theatre, film, opera, and rock n’ roll. Raised in the rural Blue Ridge Mountains, she is now based in New York City and Los Angeles.

Anne develops surreal, energetic, genre-melting work that employs live musical scoring and song as integral storytelling components, revels in lush visual spectacle, and examines power in all its forms. Her direction has been seen at a variety of theaters including Ars Nova’s ANTFest, The Bushwick Starr, Exponential Festival at The Brick, JACK, LaMama Galleria, Pipeline, Prague Fringe, LPAC, and Columbia University; her production of Ellen McLaughlin’s The Trojan Women was nominated for a Drama Desk Award. In 2023, Anne was the Creative Director for GRAMMY Award-winning duo Rodrigo y Gabriela’s national tour, In Between Thoughts. Her debut short film, I Have Love In Me, is currently on the festival circuit.

As an associate/assistant director, Anne has collaborated on two world premieres subsequently recognized by the Pulitzer Prize, several international opera tours, and at cultural institutions including BAM Next Wave, LA Opera/REDCAT, St. Ann’s Warehouse, Detroit Opera, Atlantic Theater Company, and the Prototype Festival.

She is currently an Associate Editor at 53rd State Press, a New Georges Affiliated Artist, an Associate Member of the SDC, and a frequent collaborator of The Windmill Factory.

Anne completed her MFA as a John Wells Directing Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University in May 2022.
 

anniecdemelo@gmail.com

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Selected Press—
Parterre Box, You Against Nature
Glide Magazine, Rodrigo y Gabriela at Brooklyn’s Kings Theatre
The New York Times’ Critic’s Notebook shouts out The Wagging Craze
The Tartan, Power/Trip
The Wagging Craze featured on the Go Out! List
Front Row Center, Alone in Our Sex
TheaterMania, The Trojan Women
CultureBot, The Trojan Women
Lighting and Sound, The Trojan Women

CURRENT / UPCOMING

11.09.2024—05.05.2025 Associate Directing Port(al) with VIA at the Brooklyn Navy Yard
12.19.2024—12.19.2024 Release Date for “How” with Anastazia [Music Video]
04.09.2025—04.16.2025 I Have Love In Me is an Official Selection at Poppy Jasper International Film Festival

ARCHIVE

[2024]

11.11.2024—11.13.2024 Directing Alaina Ferris’ Simone At The Museum with Amanda+James [Workshop]
11.07.2024—11.17.2024 I Have Love In Me is an Official Selection at St. Louis International Film Festival
09.24.2024—09.29.2024 I Have Love In Me is an Official Selection at Richmond International Film Festival
08.23.2024—08.25.2024 I Have Love In Me is an Official Selection at DIFF Shorts
08.17.2024—08.17.2024 53rd State Press at BOMB’s Small Press Flea
08.12.2024—08.17.2024 Directing Joseph White’s You Against Nature [ThingNY/Exponential @ The Brick]
08.05.2024—08.10.2024 Workshopping In Our Time at Oak Park Festival Theatre / Chicago Performance Lab
07.27.2024—07.27.2024 I Have Love In Me is a Semi-Finalist at Flickers’ Rhode Island
06.24.2024—06.28.2024 Lead Artist at The Mercury Store, developing Sharp Needle
12.28.2023—01.08.2024 Directing Anastazia’s “How” [Music Video]

[2023]

07.01.2023—10.31.2023 I Have Love In Me Post-Production
06.04.2023—07.11.2023 Director’s Assistant to Tolga Karaçelik on The Shallow Tale…
05.29.2023—06.04.2023 I Have Love In Me Shoots on Location in Virginia
04.18.2023—07.01.2023 Creative Directing: Rodrigo y Gabriela’s In Between Thoughts…
03.12.2023—04.16.2023 Assistant Directing Osvaldo Golijov’s Ainadamar at Detroit Opera
03.10.2023—03.11.2023 Directing Georgina Escobar’s And Other Things at La MaMa [Reading]
03.09.2023—03.09.2023 Guest Directing in support of Eli Nixon’s Naturedrag at Mercury Store
01.18.2023—01.18.2023 I Have Love In Me is a Screencraft Film Fund Quarterfinalist
01.05.2023—01.15.2023 Associate Directing In Our Daughter’s Eyes at The Prototype Festival

[2022]

12.20.2022—12.20.2022 I Have Love In Me is a Narrative Finalist with The Film Fund
11.09.2022—11.13.2022 Directing Matthew Paul Olmos’ The Un’admiring with AFO [Staged Workshop]
09.26.2022—10.01.2022 Directing Joseph White’s The Wagging Craze at Prague Fringe Festival
09.19.2022—09.22.2022 Associate Directing Allen Stone’s Karaoke Extravaganza
09.15.2022—09.18.2022 Curated Programs showing at The Greenpoint Film Festival
08.20.2022—08.20.2022 53rd State Press at the BOMB Magazine Small Press Flea
05.23.2022—05.23.2022 Named an Associate Member of the SDC
05.14.2022—05.14.2022 Graduation from Carnegie Mellon [MFA in Directing, John Wells Fellow]
04.05.2022—04.17.2022 Associate Directing In Our Daughter’s Eyes at LA Opera/REDCAT