Melanie Herrera

Melanie Herrera was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Mexican and Argentinian parents. A performer from early on, she started dancing classical ballet from age three, while singing and performing professionally with her father's Latin jazz band throughout her adolescence. Melanie graduated from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in Drama, having studied both musical theatre and screen acting with such instructors as Tony Award-winning actress Sutton Foster, Michael McElroy, Tyley Ross, Francesca Harper, and the incomparable Liz Swados, among others. She has performed in Madison Square Garden, Radio City Music Hall, and off-Broadway in The Talking Band's original production of 'The Golden Toad' at the historic La MaMa Theatre in New York City. She has acted and sang in three musical short films, including originating the role of 'Lizzie' in Nora Unkel's "The Goblin Song" which was featured as an official selection in the Sacramento Film and Music Festival, the Hollywood Sky Film Festival, and was a winner in four categories at the First Run Film Festival in 2015. Melanie was also featured in the short film "Better To Live" about the development of Liz Swados' revolutionary brainchild, the NYU 'Reality Show', which was featured as part of the Tribeca Film Festival in late 2015. In early 2019, Melanie starred in AmazeVR's three-part virtual reality horror film series, "Night Watch," in which she plays Anna, a security guard whose night turns for the worse after accidentally ending up working a haunted job site. A New York City transplant, she lives in Los Angeles, California.