Melissa Madden GRAY
singer, dancer, choreographer
Melissa Madden Gray
is a graduate of the Western Australia Academy of Performing
Arts. She has a Bachelor of Laws/Bachelor of Arts with Honours in
Fine Arts and German from the University of Melbourne,
and was awarded a DAAD scholarship to study theatre in Berlin.
Her recent performance credits include the Australian premiere of
Richard FOREMAN's My Head Was A Sledgehammer
(Kitchen Sink/B# productions, Belvoir Street);
John Cage Songbooks (Holland Festival 2001);
Design for Living (Melbourne Theatre Company);
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
(The Production Co, State Theatre);
New York `talk-show opera´ Dennis CLEVELAND
(Perth International Arts Festival, dir Mikel ROUSE);
the Adelaide Festival premiere of ELISION Ensemble's chinese Ritual Opera
Yuè Lìng Jié (and upcoming tours of Europe and Japan 2002);
And the Snake Sheds its Skin
(Opera Factory, London and UK tour, director David FREEMAN);
The Year of Living Dangerously
(Black Swan/Festival of Perth);
Brecht's Women (Fieldworks);
The Last White Romanov Ball (Sydney Theatre Company);
Lindsay Vickery's song cycle
[descent of the celestial monkey wrench]
with Magnetic Pig for the Totally Huge New Music Festival in Perth;
recordings in New York for the Cage Trust world premiere of
Alphabet;
various TV series and the feature film Risk.
Melissa was soloist with the Young Dancers Theatre
(Victoria) for six years. Her choreographic credits include:
Ham Funeral;
Caucasian Chalk Circle, UBU,
(for Company B and the Melbourne Festival);
Benedict ANDREWS' Ur/faust
(Weimar, Munich, Adelaide Festivals);
Diary of a Madman (Black Swan).
Future collaborations include a one-woman opera
Short Description of the World: Another Dada Suicide
with British composer John WHITE
(based on the life of Viennese writer Konrad BAYER);
de-and re-constructed French 60's cabaret `Meow-Meow´,
performance with Lindsay VICKERY
(using the Miburi -- Japanese movement-sensitive sound-suit);
numerous works with composer Max LYANDVERT, and
Monitor, a multi-media work with New York composer
Mikel ROUSE.
Melissa embarks next on the national tour of Masterclass,
directed by Rodney FISHER, and returns to Melbourne for solo performance
in the Virtuosic Visions series at the Melbourne Museum
in March 2002.
2001
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