Having received her SAG eligibility from National Headquarters for principal work on the ABC Family Film TREASURE OF THE WEST, Melissa is taking some time to focus on her own writing and has several of these films in the works for 2010 in addition to landing multiple roles in other independent and feature films. Melissa studied movement and Performing Arts at Boston University and the Five College Consortium in Amherst, MA. Most recently, she joined the community of artists and storytellers at Carter Thor Studios, esteemed in the Hollywood community as experts of film acting and creation. She sends love and thanks to her family.

Melissa Ham-Ellis admires and aspires to make films that move.

She believes in educating by doing, but, moreover, she believes in our living HISTORIANS: Storytellers and Artists. They are our Nurturers and Healers.

She admires Frank Coraci, Roger Kumble, David O. Russell, Johnathan Mostow, Robert Luketic and Andy Fickman for enthralling her with each process in their chance encounters on Boston crossroads, that phenomenon which has come to be known as "Hollywood East."

Melissa is temporarily invisible; an illusion, a ghost, and would like you to know that she is not afraid to cry, and that she is forever grateful for horrible bosses who fired her from pointless jobs and eventually pushed her into the car she proceeded to drive all the way to Hollywood, where she promptly developed the biggest crush ever on her acting teacher. Schoolgirl crushes stem from a deep seeded need to learn and serve as a reminder that she must never abandon the art of filmmaking. Melissa would like to thank everyone who has been unkind, and Christina Aguilera when she says: "Thanks for making me a fighter."

Cheers to films with fight. Cheers to having something to fight about.

Melissa writes films about having something at stake; about having both something and nothing to lose.

She writes films in the NOW. She writes films about YOU.

Only the camera never lies.