- Nicknames
- Melito
- Melle Mel
- Born and raised in New York City. A graduate of The William Esper Studio and a member of the award winning LAByrinth Theatre Company and The Actors Studio Playwright-Director Unit. As an actor he's worked with Luna Stage, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Boomerang theatre company and the legendary Ridiculous Theatrical Company under the artistic direction of Everett Quinton. Stage work includes "Summer and Smoke", "Elliot, A Soldier's Fugue", "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and "Native Speech", "Short Eyes" as well as plays written by Miguel Pinero, Mando Alvarado, Stephen Adly Guirgis. He is a two-time semi-finalist The Princess Grace Playwright Fellowship award. His pilot script, "On The Boulevard" was a 2020 semi-finalist HollyShorts Screenplay competition and 2020 quarter finalist for the Los Angeles International Screenwriting Awards. In 2022 his screenplay, "Los Abandonados/The Abandoned" won the best feature length screenplay award at the 12th Annual International Puerto Rican Heritage Film Festival. His plays, "The Spirit, The Body & The Blood", "Prospect Avenue", "In Da Boogie Down", "Full Moon Inside a Red Sky" are published by Next Stage Press.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Mel Nieves
- Gender / Gender identityMale
- He was a Police Science major at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
- He went to John Jay College for Criminal Justice because of his love for the film "Serpico" and while as a student at the school met his first acting teacher and lifelong mentor Gus Fleming, who played the role of Dr. Metz in the film.
- Went along to help a friend on their audition for a little known theatre group and ended up being asked to become a member of the group, but not his friend, a few years later the very same theatre group would grow to become the award winning and internationally renown LAByrinth Theater Company.
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