Melinda Buckley

MELINDA BUCKLEY (Writer / Performer) has appeared on Broadway and in the national tours of several shows, including Crazy For You, A Chorus Line and Bob Fosse’s revival of Sweet Charity. She performed improv and sketch material with Gotham City Improv and Chicago City Limits, and appeared as a stand up at Caroline’s, Stand-Up NY, and Gotham Comedy Club. She has written and performed several solo shows, her latest being, MOTHER (and me). On the other side of the table, highlights include directing Town Hall’s hit musical series, “Broadway By The Year”, which featured a Tony award winning cast, and choreographing Paramour, which starred Len Cariou and premiered at the Old Globe Theatre. For the big screen, she choreographed the musical sequences for Columbia Pictures’, Stuart Little I and II...

MELINDA BUCKLEY (Writer / Performer) has appeared on Broadway and in the national tours of several shows, including Crazy For You, A Chorus Line and Bob Fosse’s revival of Sweet Charity. She performed improv and sketch material with Gotham City Improv and Chicago City Limits, and appeared as a stand up at Caroline’s, Stand-Up NY, and Gotham Comedy Club. She has written and performed several solo shows, her latest being, MOTHER (and me). On the other side of the table, highlights include directing Town Hall’s hit musical series, “Broadway By The Year”, which featured a Tony award winning cast, and choreographing Paramour, which starred Len Cariou and premiered at the Old Globe Theatre. For the big screen, she choreographed the musical sequences for Columbia Pictures’, Stuart Little I and II with Geena Davis, Hugh Laurie and Jonathon Lipnicki, the independent film 1999, starring Amanda Peet and Jennifer Garner, and assisted Pat Birch on Working Girl as well as several episodes of Saturday Night Live. Other TV credits include, choreographing the daytime drama One Life to Live and an award-winning promo for the CBS Fall Lineup. Most recently, she choreographed a CBS promo for Girl Power which aired during Super Bowl 2019 and was named one of the top ten ads by Paste magazine. She assisted Lonny Price (as SDC Fellow) in the filming of Company at the NY Philharmonic, which starred Neil Patrick Harris, Patti Lupone, Stephen Colbert, Martha Plimpton, and Jon Cryer.

Melinda has written, directed, and choreographed numerous commercial and corporate productions for such clients as Bloomberg Philanthropies, Fox, ESPN, WE tv, Sesame Street, McDonald’s, Microsoft, Pepsi, IBM, American Express and Audi. She is a proud member of AEA, SAG-AFTRA and SDC.

Scripts

Colour My World

by Melinda Buckley

Synopsis

“Love doesn't hide. It stays and fights. It goes the distance, that's why love is so strong. So it can carry you all the way home.”

Nancy Ripley desperately wants to get back to her husband and her two boys. But the damn bus is not coming. A stranger sits next to her and noticing how anxious she is, strikes up a conversation. As they chat, she realizes that not only is Malachy not a stranger but he was her...

“Love doesn't hide. It stays and fights. It goes the distance, that's why love is so strong. So it can carry you all the way home.”

Nancy Ripley desperately wants to get back to her husband and her two boys. But the damn bus is not coming. A stranger sits next to her and noticing how anxious she is, strikes up a conversation. As they chat, she realizes that not only is Malachy not a stranger but he was her last minute High School Prom date! They laugh and reminisce about that crazy night 45 years ago. It all comes back in the kind of vivid detail as if it’s all happening again and then, Malachy plays the theme song, Colour my World on his phone. It’s the slow dance they never did at their Prom, but later fell in love to under the stars up on Hoppin Hill road. As the iconic piano chords play, one last burst of memory washes over Nancy: Malachy is her husband. He has found her again and he is there to bring her home, as he always has since her diagnosis of early onset Alzheimer’s. A home health aide enters and helps Nancy back upstairs into their home as Malachy removes the fake Bus Stop sign and pushes the bench back up onto their lawn.