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Melissa
Paulson
Introduction
I’m a performance artist, educator, writer and creator from Montreal. I went to theatre school at John Abbott College and hold a B.Ed from McGill University. I left Québec for New York City for a year and took a writing class at the PIT led by Peter Michael Marino. This was the start to the development of my one-woman show For the Love of Pieperformed my piece at the Montreal Fringe where it was nominated for Best Solo Fringe show and then Chicago where it was selected as one of the 5 best bets of the Chicago Fringe 2016 by Timeout Chicago.

In the last fifteen years, I have collaborated with artists to craft performances and programs that challenge societal norms and amplify women’s voices. I’ve advocated and promoted leadership programs for teenage girls in NYC schools through the organization WET Productions and developed a monologue writing workshop for The ROC youth centre in Picton. I’ve guest starred in The Boys, The Detectives, The Bold Type, Hallmark’s Christmas in my Heart and was part of the Bell Let’s Talk Day campaign Let’s Change This  in French and English. Most recently, I performed in the play Collected Stories with County Roads Theatre Productions and The Vagina Monologues with the Marysburg Mummers. I am the co-founder of Hysterical Hearts, a female-founded storytelling collective. Our first short film Savage Breakup was selected at St-John’s International Women’s Festival 2020. 









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