Melissa Reed is a performing and teaching artist currently pursuing her MFA in Acting at the University of South Carolina. Her experience as an arts integrator and teaching artist includes work for The Warehouse Theatre, South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities, Opera Carolina, and Tri-District Arts Consortium. She contracts to the Federal Bureau of Investigations and other forensic and governmental entities, designing and performing in scenario-based training protocols nationwide. She is a company member of P3 Studio, the performance and pedagogy wing of Pacific Performance Project/East.