Melisa Tien
Melisa Tien is a playwright, lyricist, librettist, producer, and educator. She is the author of the plays UNTITLED LANDSCAPE, BEST LIFE, THE BOYD SHOW, YELLOW CARD RED CARD, FAMILIUM VULGARE, and REFRAIN. She is co-author of the music-theater works SWELL and MARY. SWELL was part of the HERE Summer Sublet Series in July 2019. BEST LIFE will be produced at JACK in March 2020. MARY will have a reading at New...
Melisa Tien is a playwright, lyricist, librettist, producer, and educator. She is the author of the plays UNTITLED LANDSCAPE, BEST LIFE, THE BOYD SHOW, YELLOW CARD RED CARD, FAMILIUM VULGARE, and REFRAIN. She is co-author of the music-theater works SWELL and MARY. SWELL was part of the HERE Summer Sublet Series in July 2019. BEST LIFE will be produced at JACK in March 2020. MARY will have a reading at New Dramatists in June 2020. A New Dramatists resident playwright, Melisa is a recipient of an EST/Sloan commission, and has been a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow in Playwriting/Screenwriting, a resident at MacDowell, Millay, and Tofte Lake Center, and a member of the 2010-2012 Women’s Project Lab. She has presented work at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Great Plains Theatre Conference, the Women Playwrights International Conference, and the National Asian American Theatre Conference and Festival. She teaches experimental theatrical writing at Sarah Lawrence College. BA, UCLA; MFA, Columbia University. Website: www.melisatien.com