Melory Mirashrafi

Dramaturg

Melory Mirashrafi is a first-generation Iranian-American theatre artist from Hillsboro, and the Artistic & Producing Associate at Artists Repertory Theatre. Melory was the 2020 Literary Apprentice at the Huntington Theatre Company in Boston, and a Young Conservatory Intern at American Repertory Theatre in San Francisco. Selected directing credits: English (Speakeasy Stage Company); The God Cluster (Fuse Theatre Ensemble); The Music Man (Third Rail Repertory Theatre); Shahmaran/شاهماران
(Shaking the Tree Theatre); Pygmalion: A Tall Tale (Artists Repertory Theatre); The Little Prince (Opera Theater Oregon). Selected dramaturgy credits: the ripple, the wave that carried me home (Portland Center Stage); <<when we write with ashes>> (National Queer Theatre); Layalina (National Queer Theater); True Story (Artists Repertory Theatre). Selected acting credits: The Music Man (Third Rail Repertory Theatre); Heathers: The Musical (Funhouse Lounge); Cabaret (Linfield College). 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.