Prime Stage Theatre

Alyssa Herzog Melby
Education Director

Alyssa Herzog Melby is thrilled to join Prime Stage as their Education Director. Ms. Melby is a teaching artist, actor, and dramaturg in the Pittsburgh area. She recently received an MA degree in Theatre Arts from the University of Pittsburgh where her studies focused on theatre-in-education and theatre for youth. As a teaching artist, she has worked for the Pittsburgh Public Theatre (Shakespeare Monologue and Scene Competition), City Theatre (Young Playwrights Competition and Festival), Shakespeare-in-the-Schools at the University of Pittsburgh

(Teacher Workshop facilitator and Residency Teaching Artist), the MGR Foundation (Murals: Violence Prevention Through the Arts program), and Gateway to the Arts (Theatre Teaching Artist). Ms. Melby was recently seen in the theatre for young audiences production, Tomato Plant Girl, produced by Shakespeare-in-the-Schools, and as the title role in Phase3Production's Miss Julie. Ms. Melby presented at the 2009 Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE)/American Association for Theatre in Education (AATE) conference on two different panels: "'Ouch and Oops:' Best (and Worst) Practices of Working for or With Youth Populations" and "Risking Innovation in the Name of Lively Talkbacks." She has a forthcoming publication entitled "Modeling Gender Education in The Taming of the Shrew and The Tamer Tamed" in Performing Pedagogy in Early Modern England (Ashgate Publishing, 2010). Ms. Melby is a member of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) and the Literary Managers and Dramaturg of the Americas (LMDA). Prior to arriving in Pittsburgh, Ms. Melby received her BA in Theatre and English from the University of Minnesota, Morris.