♥Jacqueline Vellandi ♥
A multi-hyphenate artist ready to use her Superpower of Storytelling to change perspectives and fight evil!
The Plays
Carmilla: The Musical
Twenty years before Bram Stoker buried her alive with Dracula, Sheridan Le Fanu gave us Carmilla - the world’s first vampire novel and asked us to consider what it truly means to be “a monster.”
In this new musical adaptation with a script by Jacqueline Vellandi and music/lyrics by Meg Moynahan, there was a lonely girl in a castle, and her father. There was... a monster, a lover, a fiend, and a friend. She lived off the souls of the innocent. When the sun sinks and the candles are all blown out, can you sometimes feel the memory of her presence? A draft in the hall with no windows open. The feeling of being watched from somewhere in the shadows. And sometimes, when you are entirely alone, can you hear the faintest footsteps at the base of your bed? Closer. Closer. To gift you her sweet bite.
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Carmilla: The Musical just closed a sold out run as a part of the Mason Gross School of the Art's inaugral Student Works festival at Rutgers University.
Reverie
Faced with the monotony and isolation of every day life, three young teens escape reality to a shared Reverie. Here the sun always shines and laughter is never ending. The more time you spend here in our reverie, the less important your real life will seem. You might as well forget it all and stay with us forever!
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Published through Concord Theatricals
Winner of the International Thespian Festival - Playwrighting Thespy
Selected for production at the Young Writers Festival with San Diego's Playwrights Project
"It was playful, whimsical and deeply moving... It feels very organic. A powerful and hugely relevant piece of writing." - Annie Weisman (Playwrights Project)
The Night We Danced
“The Night We Danced" is a dystopian tale of a community divided in two. Community with neighbors is strictly forbidden when a boy and girl from opposite sides of the world form connection in spite of their enforced differences. This play examines the overcoming power of connection and the fatal danger of silence breeding the repetition of dark histories.
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Winner of the California State Thespian Festival PlayWorks Competition