Melanie Rey

(AEA, SAG-AFTRA) Melanie Rey is an actor/writer with four plays premiered in NYC at The 78th Street Theatre, Audart Gallery, PSNBC at HERE, The Nuyorican Poets Café, Stage 36 and The Greenwich St. Theater.

Her Rock Musical Mi Vida En Jira/A Life...A Broad ran at The Greenwich St. Theater in 2005. https://playbill.com/article/mama-was-a-spitfire-melanie-rey-musical-a-lifea-broad-begins-at-nycs-greenwich-street-jan-31-com-123825

She has performed at Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Old Globe, The Kennedy Center, Minneapolis Children’s Theater, Soho Rep, ProjectTheater and many others. She created the role of "Leslie Burke" in Bridge to Terabithia,  (Kennedy Center), played the title role in Jose Rivera's Marisol, "Karana" in Island of the Blue Dolphins, "Wineva" for Criminals in Love, Esperanza Rising at CTC, and  “Cordelia” in Jose Rivera’s Sonnets for an Old Century directed by KJ Sanchez. She has performed at The Edinburgh Festival, the NYC Theater Festival, on the BBC, and as a guest star on NBC's Law & Order. Her performance last year for Parity Productions of EN LAS SOMBRAS, by Jordan Ramierez Puckett, opposite Lorelei Rey, was special not only because she performed with her daughter, but could dedicate the experience to her TexMex grandparents, Amá Reyes y Apá Muñiz, migrant workers picking cotton and fruit between Texas and Michigan for years. She recently read the role of "Rachel" in Joey Brenneman's screenplay reading of MINE! once again opposite her daughter, Lorelei Rey.