Melanie Notinger

Melanie is an LA-based writer/director and actor from Texas. Shaped by a childhood gender-bending in the theatre, she found freedom challenging restrictions of gender early. Her last short film, Dress Code, was featured on NoBudge in 2021 who described it as "a character study about gender identity." It screened at festivals internationally from NewFest 2019 to, most recently, CINEMQ 2021 (Shanghai) and is featured on Vimeo's Staff Channel: LGBTQIA+ Voices. Melanie wrote, directed, and starred as a severely anxious comedian in her debut short Choke Artist (Lighthouse International Film Festival 2018). She co-wrote and played 7 erratic roles in Brooklyn No-Names Off-Broadway - Best Script winner of the 2018 SheNYC Festival. Melanie is an alum of Joan Scheckel's Filmmaking Series (Action Lab) and has a B.F.A. in Acting from Texas State University. She's working on an unsettling feature drama about young people discovering boundaries - in devastating ways.