Melis May

About the Author
Melis May was born and raised in the coastal city of Izmir, Turkey. She is a graduate of Dokuz Eylul University and earned her BFA in Performing Arts as a dramaturg-playwright. Her graduation thesis was on the examination of the play-within-a-play technique in Max Frisch’s Biography play. This study, which proved proficiency in art, was taught as a sample thesis in sister universities.

May has been an assistant director in the opera, a private theater owner, a performing arts organizer and an owner of an advertising agency in Turkey. She emigrated to the US in 2016 and has become a citizen. She has been researching and working on theater and puppetry for the last 25 years and is currently writing her first series of puppetry plays for children.