Melanie Rada

Akanda
Actor, Director, Art Director, Concept Artist, Performance Coach, Playwright, Illustrator, Lighting Designer, Stage Director, Dramaturge, Choreographer, Makeup Artist, Set Designer and Theatrical Producer

Praha, Czech Republic

Member Since:
March 2014

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About Melanie

I have a degree in Theatre and Fine Arts. Ihave worked in many theatrical fields including Directing, Acting, Stage Management, Lighting Design, Set Design in Venezuela, Canada, and now The Czech Republic. Since moving to Prague, I have taught theatre to both children and adults and have been actively involved in many theatres as an actor, director, script writer, stage manager, and lighting designer. Some of the plays I recently directed include Peter Weiss' Marat/Sade and John Cameron Mitchell's rock musical Hedwig and The Angry Inch. Currently, I am the Artistic Director of Akanda.

Unique traits: Fluent in English, French and Spanish. Working knowledge of Czech and Japanese.

Gender:
Female

Height:
5' 3"

Weight:
120

Body type:
Slim

Hair:
Chin Length

Hair color:
Brown

Eyes:
Mixed

Ethnicity:
Caucasian

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Light up Your Life (2013)
Theater by Dare to Light co-creator, director
Beirut (2013)
Theater by Akanda Actor
Cabaret Macabre (2012)
Theater by Akanda Director, co-producer, make-up designer
Unmaking Hedwig (2012)
Film by Akanda Actor, co-writer, co-producer
Marat/Sade (2012)
Theater by Akanda Director
Romeo and Juliet (2011)
Theater by Prague Shakespeare Company Lighting Designer
Hedwig and The Angry Inch (2011)
Theater by Akanda Director
Lovecraft (2009)
Theater by Blood, Love & Rhetoric Actor and Lighting Designer
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (2008)
Theater by Blood, Love & Rhetoric Lighting Designer
La Machine (2007)
Theater by Miloco Stage Manager, Set and Light Designer, co-producer
True West (2007)
Theater by Prague Playhouse Lighting Designer
Macbeth (2006)
Theater by Prague Shakespeare Company Lighting and Set Designer, Stage Manager