Originally a NY actor and award-winning playwright, Melody is a 2024 mentee in Ryan Murphy’s Half Initiative directing program. She completed writing a feature adaptation of the African fantasy novel “Beasts of Prey” for Netflix and sold an untitled genre show to Netflix with Will Packer. Melody won Urbanworld's Grand Jury Prize for Best Screenplay in 2018 and started out as a staff writer on CW's Two Sentence Horror Stories while still in the 2019 HBO Access Writing Program. Other credits: story editor on Law & Order: SVU, co-producer on Power Book IV: Force. Melody did the Sundance Episodic Lab and won an Adobe Women at Sundance Fellowship in 2021. She’s co-founder of Nyx Horror Collective which produced 13 MINUTES OF HORROR, a program of women-directed short films that ran on Shudder. Melody has directed short films and also writes comic books (OMNI). Her writing residencies include Yaddo, UCross, Chateau de la Napoule and a 2024 Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Residency in Italy to develop a TV project and write a sci fi novel, both about climate change. She traveled to Antarctica on a National Geographic Explorer cruise to do research for those projects. Melody’s short stories have recently been published in African Ghost Short Stories and Best Climate Change Stories. She has developed several TV projects including for Reginald Hudlin, Tarell McCraney and Unapologetic Projects and has been asked to adapt the popular series of Emily Windsnap books.