Melanie Martin Long
Instructor
Melanie Martin Long joins the KSU faculty after more than
twenty years of directing, acting and teaching in Atlanta, Minneapolis and New
York. She was a finalist for the NEA-TCG Directing Fellowship, a Dunn Peace
Scholar to South Africa, and a recipient of three Lotta M. Crabtree Theatrical
Trust Awards. She holds a B.A. from the
College of William and Mary (PBK) and an M.F.A. in Directing from the
University of Minnesota, where she also trained as Assistant Director to Joe
Dowling at the Guthrie Theatre. She further studied mask and performance in
Bali, Indonesia. Before returning to Atlanta, Melanie spent five years as an
Artistic Associate at the Lark Play Development Center in New York, where she
produced its highly acclaimed Playwrights’ Workshop with Arthur Kopit and
directed countless staged readings. She has taught and directed at the University
of Minnesota, University of Tennessee, Georgia College, Clayton State
University, Georgia Ensemble Theatre and for the Metropolitan Opera’s Creating
Original Opera Program. Favorite directing credits include Old Woman Flying (Eugene O’Neill Center), A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings (Lincoln Center Lab), the The A-Word (Off-Broadway at Greenwich
Street), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Virginia Shakespeare), Hamlet (Cape
Fear Regional), The Tempest (University of Pennsylvania Players), A
Shayna Maidel, A Body of Water, and Sight
Unseen (Minnesota Jewish Theatre), and most recently Melancholy Play here at KSU. Acting credits include Theatrical
Outfit, Alliance Children’s Theatre, Theatre Gael and Georgia Ensemble Theatre.
Memberships: Society of Directors and Choreographers, Lincoln Center Directors’
Lab. Special Interests: Magic Realism, Theatre and Special Needs populations.