Melanie Marnich is an American playwright and television writer best known for her work on the HBO drama Big Love which earned her a Writers Guild of America (WGA) Award nomination in 2010. Marnich also frequently writes plays for American regional theatres. Her most recent plays include Quake, Blur, Tallgrass Gothic, Calling All, Beautiful Again, These Shining Lives, and The Storm Coming. Blur received its world premiere Off Broadway at Manhattan Theatre Club and also won the Francesca Primus Prize from Denver Center Theatre. Quake and Tallgrass Gothic premiered at the Actors Theatre of Louisville's Humana Festival of New American Plays.
Discipline:
Theatre – playwriting
Melanie Marnich
Discipline:
Theatre – playwriting
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2007
Studios
Schelling
Melanie Marnich worked in the Schelling studio.
Marian MacDowell funded construction of this studio the year that the organization was established and the first artists arrived for residency. It was called Bark Studio until 1933, when it was renamed in honor of Ernest Schelling, a composer, pianist, and orchestral leader who served as president of what was then called the Edward MacDowell…