Career
She has trained for improvisation at Chicago"s The Second City, performed in several sketch comedy shows, plays and in non-commercial radio (DJ Slothgirl, 891fm WIDR, Kalamazoo). She played Jane Doe in the 2003 feature film Muhammad and Jane directed by Usama Alshaibi and played Sabine in the 2007 feature film Orchard Vale directed by Tim Kinsella—both of which have been featured at the Chicago Underground Film Festival. In 2011, she appears as an interviewee in television on the Radio"s film, Nine Types of Light, directed by Tunde Adebimpe.
Melina has written about her experience of being on a bombed plane, Trans World Airlines Flight 840, in 1986.
