AUTHENTIC STORIES, PERSONAL CONNECTIONS

Melrose Placed produces authentic narratives and champions the evolving role of storytelling in shaping societal attitudes. By placing characters and content first, our projects explore unexpected perspectives and universal truths with openness and curiosity — shattering assumptions in the process.

Our projects include Deaf U, a 2020 docu-series on Netflix that follows a group of deaf and hard of hearing college students who attend Gallaudet University, a private university for the education of the deaf and hard of hearing. An unprecedented 50% of the crew on the series were deaf.

We also produced Oscar Nominated short film Audible for Netflix, a coming-of-age film documenting the journey of football player Amaree McKenstry-Hall which The Guardian called, “Moving and evocative.”

We have on going projects in development with Universal, Netflix, Spectrum and other partners.

Projects

Audible Co-Executive Producer / Netflix It may only clock in around 38 minutes, but Audible possesses all the emotional weight of a feature-length documentary. Directed by Matt Ogens, who has many a sport doc under his belt (including 30 for 30), Audible effortlessly toes the line between sports film and intimate emotional drama. It’s also produced by Nyle DiMarco Sami Housman and Friday Night Lights creator Peter Berg!. The film is more about Amaree’s emotional journey than it is about anything else, but it brilliantly shows us how that journey manifests both on the football field and off, beautifully illustrating this world in the process. Trailer

Deaf U Producer / Netflix In this ground breaking reality series, a tight-knit group of Deaf and hard of hearing students share their stories and explore life at Gallaudet University Watch

DEAF PUNK Executive Producer / Creator/ Revelations Nyle DiMarco and Melrose Placed’s Sami Housman have partnered with Morgan Freeman and Lori McCreary’s Revelations Entertainment to develop and produce the drama series Deaf Punk. DiMarco is set to lead the series exploring how a cultural revolution was supported by the unlikely union of two minority groups. Deaf Punk is inspired by San Francisco’s famed music venue The Deaf Club, originally founded in the 1930s as a clubhouse for the deaf that would go on to showcase punk bands like The Dead Kennedys, The Offs, The Mutants, and The Thelonious Band after the space was rented nightly in the ’70s by music manager Daphne Hanrahan. Nyle DiMarco Developing Drama Series ‘Deaf Punk’ With Revelations Entertainment & Melrose Placed

“Netflix’s Deaf U is the authentic reality reset we need”
– TV GUIDE

UNT. NYLE DIMARCO COMEDY Executive Producer / Spectrum Nyle Dimarco, the deaf model and actor who won America’s Next Top Model and Dancing with the Stars, has sold a comedy about being a deaf man in America to Spectrum. Deadline understands that the Charter Communications-backed platform is developing the half-hour project with Daniel Dae Kim’s production company 3AD and Melrose Placed. Read

Feel the Beat Consultant / Netflix After blowing a Broadway audition, a self-centered dancer reluctantly returns home and agrees to coach a squad of young misfits for a big competition. Trailer

AUTHENTIC STORIES, PERSONAL CONNECTIONS

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