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LATEST NEWS

LADY CAPULET review by Brynn Hambley on Substack!
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Watch​ ZOE COMES HOME - on YouTube
Click Here!

PictureZoe (Jess Beverage, right) tries to cope with her troubled mother (Susan Mendoza, left) and placate an irate neighbor, upset over her mother's backyard "art."

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NEW YORK TIMES features Farm Arts Collective DREAM ON THE FARM - The Scientists - in the ARTS section 
Read NY TIMES article HERE
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Simon Kowalcuk-Swartz, Doug Rogers, composer, and Melissa Bell, writer-musician; New York Times. Photo: Michelle V. Agins.
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John Roth, Melissa Bell, Jessica Barkl, Michael Chojnicki, and Pam Scott. New York Times, photo by Michelle V. Agins
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AMISH AF performing Amish Wet Dream. Time's Up!
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Watch a live performance video presented by MusiCoLab 
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Listen to the score, visit
 Finding Madame Curie Website 
PicturePerformance 2021

Nominated for Best "Adaptations & Modernizations" for 2020 & 2021 by New York Shakespeare and Henley Rose Competition FINALIST
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Jianzi Colón-Soto
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Preston Fox
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Preston Fox and Jianzi Colón-Soto. Photo by Kent Fairfield
“Tantalizing”… "Juicy" -RoundtheWorldStage  
What caused the feud between the Montagues and Capulets?
Nominated for Best "Adaptations & Modernizations" for 2020 & 2021 by New York Shakespeare, ​this prequel to Romeo and Juliet follows the journey of Rose from country girl to matriarch, navigating her repression and power in 16th Century Verona.
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Barefoot Shakespeare Company Cast: 
​Jianzi Colón-Soto as Rose, Andrew Dunn, Preston Fox, Marlena Holman, and Jefferson Reardon
Directed by Emily Gallagher
Fight & Intimacy Direction by Robert Aronowitz

With original music by Graham Russell of Air Supply
Costumes for Rose by Sally Ann Parsons of Parsons-Meares LTD
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Marlena Holman and Jianzi Colón-Soto
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Preston Fox and Jianzi Colón-Soto
Fourth Folio Shakespeare: Romeo & Juliet with Panelists David Serero, Emily Gallagher & Melissa Bell https://youtu.be/4uSFkhUacq4

LADY CAPULET Sizzle Reel

Melissa and her projects are affiliated with 29th Street Playwrights Collective, The Tank, Barefoot Shakespeare, CreateTheater/ETC in New York City and Farm Arts Collective, Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, and Comedy Tribe in the Catskills.
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  • LATEST NEWS
  • LADY CAPULET
  • ZOE COMES HOME
  • Productions and Plays
    • DREAM ON THE FARM
    • COURAGE
    • FINDING MADAME CURIE
    • DEVIL & THE DEEP
    • GAME BOY
    • ICEBOX PLACENTA
    • LOST IN LOVE at the Triad
    • LOVE, SEX, ANARCHY
    • STAGED READINGS & FESTIVALS
    • Farm Arts Collective
  • BIO / Resume
  • About
  • Home
  • Music & Past Lives
  • Get in Touch
  • PUBLICATIONS
  • Journal