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      <image:title>Work - We had our first workshop at New Dramatists, as part of PlayTime, Nov. '17</image:title>
      <image:caption>Cast &amp; Creative Team: (back L to R) Lisa Timmel, Kim Brockington, Eileen Rivera, Austin Ku, Erin Anderson, Tim Nicolai, Shanna Lesniak, Jonathan Kim Phillips, Michael Tisdale, Kara E. Young; (front L to R) Maria Mileaf, Melisa Tien, Matt Frey</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Work - Best Life</image:title>
      <image:caption>Written by Melisa Tien | Directed by Susanna Jaramillo with Cherrye J. Davis &amp; Erin Anderson “Hits with utterly timely resonance…Best Life is about that exact spot where the historical forces of injustice in America meet the individual capabilities of a single person.” - Exeunt NYC “⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐…Funny and thoughtful, even while it asks its audience to interrogate their own behaviour.” - The Reviews Hub</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Best Life was initially scheduled to open March 2020, starring Ayesha Jordan and Erin Anderson. It was featured in the Brooklyn Rail in a write-up by Matthew Paul Olmos. Then the pandemic hit…and theater took a pause. The play eventually opened in October 2021, with a new cast.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Best Life was part of the Bushwick Starr’s 2018 Starr Reading Series, featuring Erin Anderson and Kara Young.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>In Yellow Card, Red Card four female soccer players in a Muslim town in Cameroon prepare for a championship that will determine the future of the team, and the trajectory of each girl’s life. Incorporating movement based on the games and practices of a real-life Cameroonian girls’ team, this play-and-sporting-event-in-one explores what happens when young women in a socially and culturally restrictive environment begin to recognize their own agency.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The characters are based, in part, on a team of girls Melisa interviewed while she was in Cameroon to research the play.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Work - Familium Vulgare was invited to participate in the National Asian American Theater Conference &amp; Festival, Oct. 2014</image:title>
      <image:caption>The play was featured in the festival's reading series; dir. by Sarah Mitteldorf, featuring Justin Jain, Dan Kim, Bi Jean Ngo, &amp; Stephanie Walters.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Work - Daylight Saving is a contemporary song cycle with lyrics by Melisa Tien and music by Joseph N. Rubinstein</image:title>
      <image:caption>about a woman who is waiting to hear from her partner, a soldier away at war. The cycle is structured around shifting emotional 'seasons', and explores the elasticity of time, memory, and experience while one is in a state of not-knowing.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Work - The song cycle was a finalist for the 2021 National Association of Teachers of Singing Art Song Composition Award.</image:title>
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      <image:caption>a music-theater work conceived by Melisa Tien featuring 10 contemporary composers ~ Live and Online, 3.17.21 - 3.21.21 ~</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Work - A concert presentation of SWELL ran at HERE July 13-14, 2019. It featured singers Jonathan May, Jasmine Muhammad, &amp; Kannan Vasudevan, musicians Naomi Florin, Mila Henry, &amp; Jennifer Shaw, music direction by Mila Henry, projection design by Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew, &amp; stage direction by Elena Araoz.</image:title>
      <image:caption>[Photos: Al Foote III]</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Work - “Swell emphatically rejects the idea that there is one monolithic immigrant experience…there were moments of magic…like many of the people whose stories it tells, Swell is a piece on a journey, and there are many places it could go.”</image:title>
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      <image:title>Work - Untitled Landscape</image:title>
      <image:caption>is a theatrical experiment Melisa embarked on with director Tamilla Woodard and an ever-changing group of artist-participants. The following video was produced in conjunction with The Assembly Theater Project’s Deceleration Lab, where Untitled Landscape was in development in 2021, and with Adventure We Can.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Work - a new podcast series for the theater of your ear</image:title>
      <image:caption>co-produced by Karinne Keithley Syers and Melisa Tien. supported by the Venturous Theater Fund.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>From AFO Solo Shorts Round 2, featuring Sandra Daley.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Work - I’ve Been Pandemicking Here in New York City (5/17/20)</image:title>
      <image:caption>A single page of theatre for an anthology called Theater Artists Making Theatre With No Theater published by Tripwire Harlot Press.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A pandemic-era experience in which participants received a tree in the mail, and began contributing to a living document where they shared with each other how their tree was doing and how their lives were going. For more information, please visit the event webpage.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Community Forest was part of Post Theatrical, a national wave of theater by mail.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Work - The story of the great Lunar New Year race, told as a contemporary opera, for the delight of all ages.</image:title>
      <image:caption>A commission of Houston Grand Opera in partnership with Asia Society Texas Center, The Big Swim is a contemporary fable that fuses diverse influences into a single, compelling whole. Composer Meilina Tsui and librettist Melisa Tien have crafted a witty, heartwarming one-act opera that intentionally crosses boundaries between the traditional and modern, Eastern and Western, and classical and non-classical. In a new retelling, the 12 animals learn that fierce competition is not as crucial as caring for and supporting one another, side by side. Performances took place February 16-18, 2024. For more information, please visit the production webpage.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Composer Jorge Sosa and librettist Melisa Tien were commissioned by the University of Northern Iowa to write a new opera for the students of their opera program. The result was the dark comedy The Beehive, in which a young woman named Abby struggles to find her identity within a hairstyling community in small-town America, which is facing a crisis of its own. Joy, laughter, and tears abound in this contemporary opera, featuring a musical style influenced by pop and jazz, and performed by opera singers alongside a full orchestra.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A co-commission between On Site Opera and Brookfield Properties Arts &amp; Culture, this new opera by librettist Melisa Tien and composer Lisa DeSpain is a contemporary adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Nightingale”.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Performances took place September 8-30 across three of Brookfield Properties’ public spaces—Brooklyn Commons, Manhattan West, and Brookfield Place—and were free of charge and accessible to all.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>This modern-day fairy tale tells the story of a collector looking to gather up the world’s most beautiful objects.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>For more information, please visit the production website.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Work - Five Ways to Die/Family Heirloom</image:title>
      <image:caption>Five Ways to Die is a world premiere opera written and composed by artists in Experiments in Opera’s critically-acclaimed Writers’ Room, a regularly-occurring program for composers and librettists that Experiments in Opera began in 2019. The Writers’ Room challenges the precedent of single authorship and embraces a model where multiple composers and librettists create a large-scale work that embodies the spirit of an inclusive and collaborative community. Five Ways will feature a chamber ensemble of five musicians, a cast of six singers, and maximalist aesthetics to investigate superpowers, secrets, getting lost in the miasma of the past, and of course, death. For more information, please visit the production website.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Commissioned by Washington National Opera for the American Opera Initiative, Forever is a 20-minute tragicomic opera set in a post-human world where the protagonists are two microplastics and a hardy microorganism known as a tardigrade. Composed by Elizabeth Gartman and with a text/story by librettist Melisa Tien, the opera premiered January 19, 2024 at the Kennedy Center. For more information, please visit the American Opera Initiative website.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Work - Collages inspired by Forever, using one of the opera’s workshop scores.</image:title>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A pinch pot made with guidance from Ray Banke.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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