Melissa Jo Peltier
NYC, NY
USA
20 Years Experience
Professional Experience
Ms. Peltier is a five-time New York Times best-selling author and a multi-award-winning writer/director/producer of television and film fiction and non-fiction. She specializes in solidly structured storytelling, persuasive and powerful documentaries, and instinctually recognizing a winning property (she and her partners discovered the script for MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING, and discovered and developed the unique talents of Cesar Millan, TV's "Dog Whisperer".) As a director, she's helmed just about every type of non-fiction film there is, and her dramatic specialties include being a "hyphenate" (director-writer-producer-editor), working with children, and the unique ability to get convincing performances out of non-actors. Recently she produced the indie film, WHITE IRISH DRINKERS, with husband, John Gray. Her novel about the dark side of reality television has just been picked up by Apostrophe Books.
Expertise
Director 17 YearsProducer (television) 20 YearsOther, Specify 10 Years
Specialty
Arts & Humanities 20 YearsCrime 15 YearsOther, Specify 20 Years
Industries
Broadcasting - Ent - TV (National) 20 YearsIndependent Feature Film 15 YearsBook Publishing Trade/B2B 7 Years
Media Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)
- Lifetime Network (3-5)
- Written By Magazine (3-5)
- Simon and Schuster Books (1-2)
- A&E, History Channel (10+)
- Crown-Harmony Books (6-10)
- Court TV (1-2)
- HBO Films/Gold Circle Films (1-2)
- Hearst Entertainment (1-2)
- Discovery, TLC, Animal Planet, Travel Channel (6-10)
- VH1 (1-2)
- Ovington Avenue Productions (1-2)
- Paramount Syndication (1-2)
- Perseus Books/Capo Press (1-2)
- National Geographic Channel (6-10)
- Touchstone Television/CBS (3-5)
- Sci-Fi Channel (3-5)
- CBS (3-5)
- Churchill Educational Films (3-5)
Corporate Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)
- Perseus Books (1-2)
- Crown Harmony/Random House (3-5)
- Simon and Schuster Publications (1-2)
