MARA VÉLEZ MELÉNDEZ

SHE/HER

Playwright

MARA VÉLEZ MELÉNDEZ  (she/her) is a playwright born and raised in Puerto Rico. Her Off-Broadway debut took place in 2022 with Notes on Killing Seven Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Board Members, produced by Soho Rep and The Sol Project. Mara was a 2023 MacDowell Fellow, a 2020-2021 Playwrights Realm Writing Fellow and a member of Ars Nova's PlayGroup.She is currently adapting the Spotify/Gimlet podcast, Case 63. Other plays include Thelma and Louise and the Time Machine (2022 Breaking The Binary Theater Festival), Baby, I Fell In Love With The Computer (2023 Ars Nova Out Loud) and This Is Not The Oxcart (Clubbed Thumb Biennial Commission Finalist). Playwriting MFA: Hunter College