Melissa is an award winning, British screenwriter who’s lived for several years in the US before recently returning to the UK. Melissa’s first feature script LOSING IT landed her in the Tracking Board’s Top 100 Young & Hungry writers list. Her latest feature script EASY OUT, a YA comedy-drama in the vein of Me, Early and the Dying Girl tackles the weighty issue of assisted suicide, has a warm, charming and quirky style, whilst being grounded in the very human issues and emotions that it unpicks. The script has a director attached and was a top 10 female penned script of the Nicholl Fellowship in 2019 and is currently a Top 5 finalist for the Final Draft Big Break contest.

In addition to her writing, she’s made two short films; NOTHING and CHANGE. The latter, which she wrote, produced and directed, won many awards including the Frameline Audience Award at Toronto and the Best Drama Award at the Minghella Festival. CHANGE explores the irony of a law passing to prevent same-sex marriage on the same day that America elected its first black President. CHANGE was acquired by Frameline’s ‘Youth in Motion’ program where it was made available to schools throughout California and plays on iTunes and Shorts TV.

Melissa was excited to be selected for the BBC Drama Writers room Programme 2020 for which she is working with BBC Drama Studios. She is also developing original TV series with Studio Lambert, Firebird Pictures, producer Tanya Seghatchian (HARRY POTTER, COLD WAR) and adapting a book for screen with TEN THOUSAND & 86.