Blurring the lines between theater and performance, and the places we live and work, Melissa generates projects that are site responsive and center community conversation. She has produced festivals, creative convenings, artistic partnerships, pop-up theater events, and site-specific disruptions while also directing new plays at major theaters across the country and internationally. For St. Ann’s Warehouse with Yazmany Arboleda, Kievman generated 50 activations across the five boroughs of NYC for Little Amal Walks NYC. Kievman was a National Endowment for The Arts / TCG Directing Fellow, a Drama League Fellow, formerly Associate Artistic Director of New Dramatists, MFA faculty at Brown University and Brown / Trinity Rep. She is a founding board member of artEquity, an organization devoted to creating and sustaining a culture of equity and inclusion across the arts and culture sector. With Brian Mertes, Wendy vanden Heuvel, and hundreds of New York actors, designers, musicians, and craftspeople, Kievman has artistic produced The Lake Lucille Chekhov Project since 2003 as an experiment of living and art-making. Her Chekhov project film, I Am A Seagull, premiered at MassMoCa, The Noorderzon and Spoleto Festivals, and The New York Public Theater’s Under The Radar Festival. Kievman is currently Producer of Brown Arts IGNITE for Artistic Director Avery Willis Hoffma