Melanie Thompson (she/her) is a freelance CAEA stage manager, writer/editor, and arts administrator based in Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Selected theatre credits include Ce que je sais de vrai (Théâtre la Seizième); Children of God (2025 tour), On Native Land, Homecoming and Starwalker (Urban Ink); Carmen (Pacific Opera Victoria – ASM), S’effondrent les vidéoclubs and Nos repaires (Théâtre la Seizième); Berlin: The Last Cabaret (City Opera Vancouver), SRO (Urban Ink), The Full Light of Day (Electric Company Theatre – Appr. SM),  Away With Home (MISCELLANEOUS Productions), La bohème (Vancouver Opera – Appr. SM), Les Filles du Roi (Fugue Theatre/Urban Ink – ASM), Sonic Elder (The Chop),  FAME: The Musical (Bring On Tomorrow Co.), The Out Vigil (FirePot Performance), Underneath the Lintel (Pacific Theatre), Shrek: The Musical (Theatre Under the Stars), Arvaarluk: An Inuit Tale (Pangaea Arts), The Spitfire Grill (Midnight Theatre Collective/Pacific Theatre), The Exquisite Hour (Relephant Theatre), Grease, The Wizard of Oz, The Sound of Music, and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Footlight Theatre).

Outside of the theatre, Melanie works as Managing Director for the Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra (VICO), and writes grant applications and other copy of all kinds for clients in the performing arts. She is also a longtime member of the Board of Directors of Theatre Under the Stars. In a previous professional incarnation, Melanie was a publicist and/or media relations coordinator for a wide range of artists and arts organizations, including the Songwriters Association of Canada (Bluebird North/SongBird North), Blackbird Theatre, the BC Highland Games, Vancouver International Storytelling Festival, the World Peace Forum (2006) and the Vancouver International Film Festival.

Melanie holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) from McGill University and a Master of Arts from the University of British Columbia, both in History. Her scholarly focus was the study of cultural nationalism in late-19th-century Britain and Europe, and more specifically the role of music and theatre in the formation of identity and community. Ask her about the Welsh choral tradition, or the operas of Gilbert and Sullivan…

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Photo by Paul H. Wright.