Melanie RW Oram (She/Her) earned an Emmy for REAL SPORTS WITH BRYANT GUMBEL while at HBO Sports and a Peabody for the documentary DARE TO COMPETE: THE STRUGGLE OF WOMEN IN SPORTS. Under the Bajan Brownstone Productions banner, she wrote and directed SHOOK, a short film that aired on Showtime and won several festival awards including Best Film at the Juneteenth Film Festival. She produced A-ALIKE which won the Student Academy Awards and aired on HBO. She directed the short play NMA that was part of a short play collection called "The R-Word" which did a short off-Broadway run.

Currently she is working on a feature-length documentary called RUN LIKE A G.U.R.L. (Galvanized Unapologetic Real Leader) about female politicians and female grassroots activists who persist in the face of extraordinary barriers.

Melanie is also producing a feature length documentary called FINDING BERNIE that tells the story of Shon Keane, a film professor, who comes out as non-binary to their mother and decides to resolve their life-long struggle with gender identity. They search for their gender non-conforming childhood role model, Bernie, take a roadtrip with a group of intergenerational trans people, befriend a trans historian, and discover how, for many trans folks, the personal is political.

Melanie earned a Bachelor of Arts, cum laude from Harvard University and an MFA from Columbia University -School of the Arts -Filmmaking Division.