Susan Melinda’s plays have appeared at the Sixth Festival in Chicago, the Last Chance New Play Fest in Montana, the William Inge Festival in Kansas, as part of an aerialist production with Project in Motion in New Mexico and at a maximum security prison in Lancaster, California. She has curated a theatre program for Bric Studio in Brooklyn. She got her start in theatre in Prague, The Czech Republic, by stage managing for an expatriated theatre company.
She has studied dramatic literature at Columbia University and was part of the team that catalogued the Tennessee Williams Collection at Columbia University’s Rare Book and Manuscript Library. She worked in publishing for St. Martin’s Press and Columbia University Press. She has also worked for theatre institutions including New York City Opera and Blue Man Group.

In 2022, the National Endowment for the Arts asked Susan Melinda to serve as a grant panelist.

Susan Melinda currently teaches classes in poetry and fiction writing for Cruces Creatives. She has taught creative writing and literature at Brooklyn College, where she received her MFA in creative writing and received the Louis B. Goodman Creative Writing Scholarship. She has also taught expository writing for Rutgers University, theatre appreciation for Western New Mexico University and created a class called Environment + Literature for Montana Technical University.