Melody Valdez is excited to return to AfterWork Theater after previously working on Sing Out: A New World! She recently music directed Next to Normal with Okaeri Productions. Favorite credits include subbing on Keys 2 for Lempicka, music assisting on the Once Upon a Mattress Broadway Revival, and touring as AMD/Keys 3 for SUMMER: The Donna Summer Musical. Additional music directing credits include Lippa’s The Wild Party, Something Rotten, Cabaret, and A Chorus Line. She has also worked with AfterWork Theater, Berkeley Playhouse Conservatory, and National Asian Artists Project. Outside of theatre, Melody enjoys reading romance novels, eating Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, and daydreaming about traveling the world.