Melory Mirashrafi

Melory Mirashrafi
Dramaturg
Melory Mirashrafi (they/she) is a first-generation Iranian-American theatre artist from Oregon, and Associate Director of DNA: Oxygen at Artists Repertory Theatre. Melory was a 2019 Young Conservatory Intern with American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, and the 2020 Literary Apprentice with the Huntington Theatre Company in Boston, where they currently serve as co-facilitator of the Huntington Playwriting Fellowship program. Selected credits: <<when we write with ashes>> and Layalina (dramaturg; National Queer Theatre), Abundancia (director; Matchbox Theatre Company), Shahmaran (director; Shaking the Tree Theatre). Melory’s writing can be found in the Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays and Routledge’s Troubling Traditions: Canonicity, Theatre, and Performance in the US.