Acting Coach

Melanie McHugh

Melanie is from Derry, Northern Ireland and trained at The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

She received a Best Actress Nomination in the 2016 OffWestEnd Awards for THE DOGS OF WAR (Old Red Lion Theatre, London)

Theatre includes HERE I BELONG (Pentabus Theatre) Edna O’Brien’s THE COUNTRY GIRLS (Minerva Theatre, Chichester) WONDERFUL TENNESSEE (Sheffield Crucible) THE DOG IN THE MANGER, PEDRO THE GREAT PRETENDER, TAMAR’S REVENGE (The Royal Shakespeare Company/SPANISH GOLDEN AGE Season, Stratford and London,West End) PEER GYNT, THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD (National Theatre) TWELFTH NIGHT (Oxford Creation Theatre) DANCING AT LUGHNASA (New Vic Theatre) BLOOD WEDDING (Newcastle Playhouse) OVER THE BRIDGE and SPOKESONG (Finborough Theatre) THE ART OF SUCCESS (Arcola Theatre) MIDDEN (Oldham Coliseum) SUMMERHOUSE and THE SINGULAR LIFE OF ALBERT NOBBS (Druid Theatre, Galway) PLAYGIRL and RUMPELSTILSKIN (Abbey Theatre, Dublin) THE ILLUSION (Charabanc Theatre, Belfast) THE LAMENT FOR ARTHUR CLEARY (7:84 Theatre Scotland) SILAS MARNER (Olympia Theatre, Dublin).

In Television she had a regular role as Jules McGonigle in the award winning Irish drama series RED ROCK (BBC/TV3 Ireland). Other credits include Holby City and Dani’s Castle.

Film includes A PORNOGRAPHER WOOS.

Melanie has written 5 short plays, all performed at the LANDOR THEATRE, LONDON, one of which, BUNGALOW, was made in to a short film.

She is an audiobook artist, recording for Audible.co.uk and RNIB, as well as many radio plays in Ireland.