Melis MayMelis May was born and raised in the coastal city of Izmir, Turkey. She is a graduate of Dokuz Eylul University and earned her BFA in Performing Arts as a dramaturg-playwright. Her graduation thesis was on the examination of the play-within-a-play tehnique in Max Frisch's Biography play. This study, which proved proficiency in art, was taught as a sample thesis in sister universities.May has been an assistant director in the opera, a private theater owner, a performing arts organizer and an owner of an advertising agency in Turkey. She emigrated to the US in 2016 and has become a citizen. Melis May has been researching and working on theater and puppetry for the last 25 years and is currently writing her first series of puppetry plays for children.She continues her life as a happily married wife and mother with a child. Read More Read Less