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Melanie Maria Goodreaux, Playwright/Director, is a poet, playwright, fiction writer, actor, and director-dramatist from New Orleans, Louisiana. She has been living and creating art and plays in New York City since the late 1990's.  Her plays are surreal, stylistic, poetic, and  deal with the complications of race, gender, cruelty, and sex positive themes. The late Douglas Turner Ward of the original Negro Ensemble Theater Co, called her work, “a cornucopia of imaginative theatricality, written with enormous energy and poetic sensibility.” Crystal Field, Founder and Executive Director of Theater for the New City, heralds Melanie as “one of the greatest American playwrights of our time.”  Melanie Goodreaux was mentored by the legendary  Steve Cannon of A Gathering of the Tribes, and Dramaturge Anthony T. Saralegui.  Her plays were first produced at the House of Tribes Theater, the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, and then by Absolute Theater Company with Charles Drew, Jr. and his eclectic crewe of "Munsters.”  Some of her other  plays are Walter. Bullets. And Binoculars,  Saydee and Deelores, The White Blacks,  Enough Vo5 for the Universe, Controle’s Predicament, Katrina Who?!, SWAP, and Rita Is the Goat which is nominated for Outstanding Ensemble by AUDELCO 2025. She is the author of Black Jelly, and adapted the book  A Poem As Big As New York City. She teaches creative writing and drama with White Bird/Creative Theatrics and Theater for the New Audience in New York City.