Education
Harvard University.
composer conductor jazz musician
Harvard University.
Some of Melnick’s earlier film score credits include Story, The Only Thrill, Convicts, and Farce of the Penguins. His television credits include the Public Broadcasting Service"s, Cinema"s Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood, Indictment: The McMartin Trial, Grand Avenue, and Lily Dale by Horton Foote. His first produced musical was Adrift in Macao, featuring script and lyrics by Christopher Durang.
Melnick then collaborated with Bill Russell on The Last Smoker in America, a musical comedy about a dysfunctional family struggling with a new law forbidding smoking.
lieutenant opened in Columbus, Ohio in fall 2010. Melnick and Russell have also worked together on two musical one-acts, Patter for the Floating Lady, based on the eponymous Steve Martin, and A Bad Spell, adapted from a Virginia Moriconi short story Simple Arithmetic.