Melanie is tremendously proud to be a member of Signal Ensemble Theatre for her fourth season. Her first appearance with Signal was as Beatrice in their 2003 production of Much Ado About Nothing. She also appeared in Signal's world-premiere, Jeff-nominated production of Landslide, and played Kate Hardcastle in She Stoops to Conquer. She was nominated for a Jeff Citation award for The Weir. Melanie is also an artistic associate with First Folio Shakespeare Festival, where she has appeared as Amanda in their Jeff-recommended production of Private Lives and as Gwendolen in The Importance of Being Earnest. Other credits include The Long Christmas Ride Home (Next Theatre), King John (Chicago Shakespeare), A Christmas Carol and To Kill a Mockingbird (Metropolis), The Misanthrope (BackStage), and productions with Seanachai, Reverie, Breadline, Rising Moon, Shaw Chicago, Powertap, and Lifeline theatre companies. Melanie trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, and is a graduate of Illinois Wesleyan University.

Melanie Keller is training as the Chicago Fellow at the Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Theater at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Canada.

PRODUCTIONS

The Weir - Valerie
She Stoops to Conquer - Kate Hardcastle
Landslide - Sarah
Much Ado About Nothing - Beatrice