Moey's Music Party

Moey!

Moey is Melissa Levis, an award-winning Off Broadway songwriter who became a children’s music teacher in an attempt to get her son into a sold out nursery school. Though he never got into the program, she found a new career and her true artistic calling.
Melissa just released MOEY’S MUSIC PARTY CD with the #1 single – I Gotta Go Potty.
Melissa heads the music department at York Avenue Preschool and leads mommy & me classes at Gym Time Rhythm and Glues on the Upper East Side on Manhattan. She teaches Moey’s Music Party (a 45 minute music class featuring piano, drums, guitar, puppets, and contemporary fairytales) Rocking Renoirs (a music and art class), Musical Chefs (an integrated music and cooking class), and Tiny Tots (where she writes songs to teach baby signs to pre-verbal children.) In the summer of 2005, Melissa produced Moey’s Music Party as a children’s television show on local cable in Manchester, Vermont.
Melissa wrote the book and lyrics to THE JOYS OF SEX, which played Off Broadway in 2004 at the Variety Arts Theatre. JOYS debuted at the 2002 Fringe Festival, where the sold-out, extended-run production took home the awards for Audience Favorite and Best Director. She wrote the lyrics to IT’S A HIT!, a comic murder-mystery musical that premiered at the 2006 New York International Fringe Festival. She also wrote the lyrics to OF SHE I SING! A musical celebration of great women on the 20th Century.
Since 1993, Melissa has been writing and performing custom songs for private parties and corporate events. She has written songs for New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, Brian Mulroney (past Prime Minister of Canada), Eli Wallach, Jonathan Tisch, Ethel LeFrak, The Guggenheim Museum, Fox TV, Vogue, and Bankers Trust. She has performed at events in Washington D.C., Beverly Hills, Aspen, Boston, and Palm Beach.
Melissa earned a Master of Fine Arts in Musical Theatre Writing from The Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. She is an alumna of Brown University, The BMI Musical Theater Workshop, and the Commercial Theatre Institute. She is a member of The Dramatists League and The League of Professional Theatre Women.