Melissa had a great time with the theater scene at Yale. While a freshman, she starred in the fall musical SHE LOVES ME as Amalia for professional director Sarah Louise Lazarus. She also was invited to sing with the Yale Drama School and head their production of THE MIKADO. Also that year, Melissa played the romantic lead in an original musical called WHITECHAPEL composed by Peter Foley. Peter is still a very good friend, and a promising member of the new musical generation. (Now an awarded composer, his latest complete work is THE HIDDEN SKY which debuted at the Prince Theater in Philadelphia in 1999) Melissa took time off from Yale to play Cosette, and when she returned she played Irina in THE THREE SISTERS, a production which also featured Edward Norton as Vershinin, and Alessandro Nivola as a suitor. She played Sally Bowles in CABARET on the Yale Dramat mainstage, with Rob Berman conducting the orchestra. Also on that stage, she did an original musical BLUE SKIES by Benji Feldman and Robert Carey based on Milton's "Paradise Lost." She also worked on BURN THIS and a new play that she wrote about an Italian painter. Her fellow thespians and friends Isabel Rose and Robert Carey have become filmmakers, and there are so many more great and busy folks... keep in touch!!!