Maryanne Melloan Woods is best known as a writer/producer for tv shows such as NBC's Suddenly Susan, Fox's Partners and Showtime's The Chris Isaak Show, among others.  Her screenplay, Steve, won “Best Comedy Feature Script” at the 2016 Nashville Film Festival. Her screenplay Match Made in Heaven won the Scriptation Showcase Screenwriting Competition in 2021. Her complete tv and film writing credits can be found here:  Maryanne Melloan Woods - IMDb

 

Her plays have been staged by theaters and programs around the country including HBO's New Writers Project and the Mark Taper Forum in L.A, and Playwrights Horizons (directed by Lisa Peterson) and Primary Stages in New York.  She has won the New England Theatre Conference's John Gassner Playwriting Contest, the Venice (CA) Playwrights' Festival and the Long Beach Playhouse New Works Festival.  She has also received a playwriting grant from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.

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​Maryanne is a Librettist Member of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop in New York City.  Her musical theater adaptation of Lauren Child’s children’s book Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Book? – written along with composer and co-lyricist Jack Mitchell -- will be produced by Birmingham Children's Theatre in February of 2025.  Her new musical, The Storm, is currently in development.

 

Her YA novel Lazarus,  a paranormal thriller, was published by Owl Hollow Press in 2020.  Her second book, a coming-of-age YA novel entitled Sour Flower, won the 2023 Chanticleer International Book Awards' Dante Rossetti Grand Prize for YA Fiction (it is not yet published.) She is currently at work on her third novel, a thriller entitled The Last Howl of the Westerlakes.​

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Maryanne holds a B.A. in Theatre Arts from Drew University and an M.F.A. in Screenwriting from The American Film Institute.​

 

She is a member of the Writers Guild of America, The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, The Dramatists Guild and the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators.​​​ ​​