Melinda’s brand new production, From Paris with Anxiety, premiered at Riverside Studios in London as part of their celebrated Bitesize Festival. This one-woman show laughs at the everyday crises of living in another country, trying to navigate your way in a foreign language, and getting through the parts of motherhood which threaten to make us all a little meshugeneh. Audiences will love the heartfelt honesty, and the actress will be thrilled to get out of the house. With original songs and somewhat original kvetching, Melinda invites you into her world of music and laughter, direct from Paris! To book From Paris with Anxiety, contact here.
“A wonderful actress who has talent and charm.”
“Mayor is hilarious, and her songs are sharp and clever…so warm and uplifting that it gave me the shivers.”
- audience reviews of Jew! (A Musical)
Melinda has been a performer since elementary school, when she played Nancy in Oliver Twist and all the parents in the audience laughed during her tragic death scene.
Since that time, her credits have expanded to include Libby Tucker, the leading role in Neil Simon’s I Ought to Be in Pictures (The Studio Players, Calgary); Connie Dayton in Come Blow Your Horn (Metro Theatre, Vancouver); and both the vampy chanteuse Celeste Romano and the shy, quiet bridesmaid Marina Galino in Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding (Hoarse Raven Theatre, Vancouver).
Melinda has written and performed a number of her own works, including Jew! (A Musical) (for the Vancouver Fringe Festival in Canada and Lost Theatre’s One Act Festival in London, UK). After moving from Vancouver to London to Paris, she created All That Matters (A Modern Mini-Musical about Motherhood), which premiered at the Montmartre Dionysia.
As a comic, Melinda has appeared at The Comedy MIX in Vancouver and was a guest comedienne with celebrated comedy troupe 30 Helens. In Paris, she has enjoyed appearances at Girls Gone Funny, French Fried Comedy Night, and Melting Pot Comedy Night.
Melinda also works as an emcee and performer for cabaret and burlesque shows, and she has performed in festivals and shows throughout Paris as well as in New York and St Louis. She served as co-producer and featured performer in Burlesque Moulin’s burlesque brunch series, Croissants & Corsets, and incorporated comedy and burlesque in her role as emcee for the very successful Cabaret et Vin, produced by Holly Bordeaux Productions.
Melinda’s cabaret work has led her to offering a successful series of classes in burlesque performance, confidence building, and public speaking. (Feel free to get in touch via the Contact page to learn more.) As for the stage, selected roles include Lady (formerly Lord) Capulet in Cygnet Theatre’s nearly-all-female production of Romeo and Juliet, and as one of the harrowed-but-hilarious mothers in Koël Purie Rinchet’s original work, Mummy’s Dead, Long Live Mummy!
