Melisa Peter Biography

Melisa Peter is a performing artist and writer born and bred in Cape Town. She is a registered student at the University of Cape Town, pursuing a Diploma in Theater, Dance, and Performance, and specializing in Directing. Melisa Peter started writing and performing poetry in primary levels of education, presumably at the age of 11. She grew fonder of writing and used to be appointed to go out and represent the school during arts functions and occasions.
People’s awe-inspiring commentaries and assenting responses are ones that motivated her to begin to want to nurture her talent. Her writing is about everyday life experiences, no precise approach nor thesis. When inspiration strikes, she writes. When an opportunity arises, she performs. Her biggest aspiration is to write stories that can impact change in societies, to inspire, to education, and to heal through the arts. After graduating at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology Cape as a Dental Assistant, she then enrolled at Waterfront Theater School, which offered her a 4-year Full-Time Course in Musical Theatre, Dance Theater Tap, Ballet, Modern Contemporary, Jazz Dance, and Acting where she graduated through 'Licentiate of Trinity College London 'Diploma in teaching Speech and Drama. Coming from a dental profession to the performing arts, she believes her audience has now become her patients. She writes to touch lives and to heal.

I study at waterfront theatre svhool