Melory Mirashrafi

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Melory Mirashrafi is a first-generation Iranian-American theatre artist based in Portland, Oregon. Melory’s work spans from new plays and translations to musicals and operas, focusing on art that is rigorous, relevant, and theatrical. They have spent time at notable institutions including the Huntington Theatre Company in Boston, American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, and Artists Repertory Theatre in Portland, where they work as Artistic & Producing Associate. Selected credits: Young Americans (Portland Center Stage); American Fast (Artists Repertory Theatre); the ripple, the wave that carried me home (Portland Center Stage); English (Speakeasy Stage Company); The God Cluster (Fuse Theatre Ensemble); The Music Man (Third Rail Repertory Theatre); Layalina & <<when we write with ashes>> (National Queer Theatre); Shahmaran (Shaking the Tree Theatre); The Little Prince (Opera Theater Oregon). 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. @meloryjasmin