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Melanie Schmidt<\/h4><\/div>

“Your dream is realistic. It’s your I can’t that’s not realistic.”<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Hello world! My name is Melanie. Nice to meet you!<\/span><\/span><\/h2><\/div>

I am theater producer, director and actor. Currently play J. Finch Fletchley in Puffs. Recently in Bye Bye Birdie, Mary Poppins and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. \u00a0At the 2021 MACT*Fest Competition, produced and directed the award winning production, \u00a0“How to Host a Murder Mystery Dinner Party (In Fifteen Simple Steps). As well as produced and directed Hairspray, the Broadway Musical and Disney’s High School Musical on Stage. \u00a0I earned my degree at the University of Minnesota Duluth in Theater and Film in 2014. \u00a0Two years later I founded Stage and Spotlights Community Theatre (Click for Website)<\/a> in order to save a production after it was canceled and have been producing and directing ever since.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I am also a content creator. \u00a0I love filmmaking, editing and photography! I’ve been acting, editing and capturing videography\/ photography for the last 16 years. For the past 8 years specifically, I have been managing a variety of social media platforms and have earned HubSpot’s Social Media Marketing Certification alongside the Google Analytics IQ Certification. \u00a0In 2023, I was elected as the Marketing Director on the Prior Lake Players (Click for Website)<\/a> Board. Recently have been working on Drone Car Ads, \u00a0Puffs Teaser Trailer, Finding Nemo Teaser Trailer, promotional footage for Stage and Spotlights and Papi is a Queen (Drag Queen Web Series).<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>

Celebrating diversity\u00a0and inclusion are a priority to me.\u00a0\u00a0\u270a\ud83c\udffe\ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\ud83c\udf08<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Personal\/Business Facebook Account Update!<\/h2><\/h1><\/div>

Back on Monday August 19, 2024 \u00a0my personal Facebook page that I have had for 18 years and my Facebook business page Stage and Spotlights Community Theater was hacked<\/strong>. I’ve been working with cybersecurity professionals on LinkedIn this past year and have been trying to contact Facebook. As the founder of Stage and Spotlights Community Theatre I am working tirelessly to retrieve my Stage and Spotlights Community Theatre\u2019s Facebook Business Page along with my personal page so we can proceed forward with our fourth season hopefully in 2026. The last post on the August 19, 2024 at 7:41am was an ad about silicone dentures, that was not posted by me, but by a hacker. Thank you for your patience while I work through this unfortunate situation. \u2013 Melanie Schmidt<\/p>\n

Dear Facebook Reps<\/strong>, all my social links are listed above (Click the icons) so you can see I have cross reference proof of my identity between all my platforms. I will be sending in pictures and further explanation to a fb representative soon.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Social Media Business Pages that I managed on my Melanie Schmidt Facebook account!<\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Stage and Spotlights Community Theatre
\nfrom 2016 – August 19, 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>

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River Valley Theatre Company
\nfrom 2019-2022<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>

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Prior Lake Players Community Theatre
\nfrom Summer of 2023 – August 19, 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>

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Note: I still manage the Prior Lake Players Facebook account presently with my secondary Facebook account that I created after I was hacked. This is the account I will be contacting a Facebook representative from and is Meta verified. For security purposes I won’t say the name of that account on here.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

(click here for my bio)<\/a> to see my info about my job with Prior Lake Player Website. I manage their Facebook, Instagram and Website. I have picture proof of me managing the Facebook account with my Melanie Schmidt Account that was hacked and also proof with my new Secondary account.<\/p>\n<\/div>

My Instagram Account (Click here)<\/a> was linked to my Melanie Schmidt Facebook account, I have screenshots of the hacker getting into my account and changing the username, but I was able to save that and is meta verified.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Hairspray 2017<\/strong><\/h2><\/div>

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You can’t stop the BEAT<\/p><\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Pictures of recent projects<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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J. Finch Fletchley<\/h3><\/div>

Puffs (In Progress)
\nPrior Lake Players, 2024<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Photographer<\/h3><\/div>

Branzoe, Eden Prairie, 2023<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Coggins, Morris Person, Inventor<\/h3><\/div>

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
\nRiver Valley Theatre Company, 2022<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Evil Queen<\/em>, \u00a0Camera Operator, Makeup Artist<\/h3><\/div>

“Guardian of Aegora” Feature Film, 2021<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Theater Work<\/span>
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