Provincial Director: Melanie Fleming – Queen Elizabeth Regional High School
Melanie Fleming is the Theatre Program director at Queen Elizabeth Regional High in Conception Bay South, Newfoundland and Labrador. An actor since the age of twelve, Melanie has dedicated her life to Theatre and Theatre Education through acting, producing and directing in the local arts community and working with (as she refers to her students) “Theatre professionals in Training”.  It was through the mentorship of her first junior high drama coach that she was certian Theatre was her life’s path.

She convocated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts-Theatre from Grenfell Campus, Memorial University in 2008, and completed her Bachelor of Education the following year. Since that time she has worked with various theatre companies throughout the province and has taught in six different schools in four different provincial regions.

The students she’s had the pleasure of working with have performed at various Provincial and Atlantic festivals, and many are now professional artists and teachers in their own right. Passing on the love of Theatre to the next generation is vitally important and the ultimate goal of her career.