Director Melanie S. Armer is the Co-founder of The Nerve Tank, where she developed and directed Chance D. Muehleck's "In The Heart of a Chinese Curse" at Dixon Place as a part of their "Under Construction" series in 2008. She also developed and directed Mr. Muehleck's "The Attendants" at chashama in the fall of 2007. She is the Co-founder and Artistic Director of LIVE Theater Company, where she has produced and directed the world premieres of Muehleck's "The Honeypot Redux" and Jane Shepard's "Eating the Dead." She has also worked with EST, The Women's Project & Productions, New Georges, Theater for the New City, the 2002, 2005 & 2007 NYC Fringe Festivals and Circle East. She assisted Leonard Foglia on the Broadway revival of "Wait Until Dark" and director Michael Warren Powell on Lanford Wilson's A Sense of Place. She Armer is a member of SSDC and an alumna of The Lincoln Center Directors Lab. She has taught at Marymount Manhattan College and Point Park University in Pittsburgh. Her current focus is on developing non-traditional theater in collaborative environments.
Playwright Chance D. Muehleck has had work developed or produced at Theatre Artists of Marin in California, Circle Repertory Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theatre, and The Present Company in New York. Primary Stages commissioned him to write a short play on the American experience, which was then presented Off-Broadway. He is the recipient of the John Golden Award for Excellence in Playwriting and was a finalist for The Actors Theatre of Louisville's Heideman Award. His multimedia performance installation, "The Attendants," was developed while in residence at chashama. His physical theatre piece, "In the Heart of a Chinese Curse," was workshopped at Dixon Place. He has taught playwriting at Hampshire College and Point Park University, has written reviews for The New York Theatre Experience, and served as an adjudicator for the New York International Fringe Festival. Two of his monologues appear in the Audition Arsenal series published by Smith & Kraus. In 2008 United Stages published his short play Tagging April in the collection En Avant Playwrights. His memberships include The Dramatists Guild, Inc. and Circle East.
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