Melanie Dreyer-Lude
Assistant Professor/Head of Performance
Department of Theatre Arts
412-624-1890
madreyer@pitt.edu
Melanie Dreyer graduated from Northwestern University with an MFA in directing, where she worked with Mary Zimmerman, Frank Galati, Tina Landau, and Bob Falls. She holds an MA in dramatic literature from Washington University and a BA in theater from the University of Denver. She is the former co-artistic director of ShatterMask Theater, a critically acclaimed equity theatre specializing in exploring alternatives to traditional modes of production.
Fluent in German, she specializes in the translation and direction of contemporary German plays. She is currently working toward producing bilingual productions (German and English) to tour both in the US and Germany.
Directing credits include: The Arabian Night (her translation) for Quantum Theatre, This is Our Youth for barebones productions, She Stoops to Conquer for Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre, Mother Courage (her translation), Ballad Hunter, Learned Ladies, and Silent Spring for University of Pittsburgh Repertory Theatre.
Additional directing credits: Endgame, Der Ozeanflug (rehearsed and performed in German), Vieux Carre, Measure for Measure, The Physician in Spite of Himself, Action, Old Times, Dreams of Baby, The Love Talker, The Middle Kingdom, Cabaret, The Servant of Two Masters, The Endless Adventures of M.C. Kat, Blue Moon Rising, and Coyote Ugly.
She works as a freelance director and runs the undergraduate performance-training program at the University of Pittsburgh.
Curriculum Vitae (PDF)
Melanie was featured (PDF) in Int'l, a publication of the University Center for International Studies.