Melina Moghadassian
Melina Moghadassian is a German-Persian actress, writer, producer, and founder of the nonprofit organization Humans for the Arts, based in New York City. An alumna of the Stella Adler Studio of Acting, Melina has performed in “A Bright Room Called Day,” directed by John Gould Rubin, and in the off-Broadway show “Almost Maine.”
She trains with various acting coaches and explores different techniques to refine her craft. Melina co-produced and starred alongside Eliana Ghen and Sandra Gitau in the short film “Bridesmaids Tale,” which was accepted into the Outshine Film Festival in 2021. In 2023, she wrote, produced, and starred in her short film “Flowers For You.”
Currently, Melina runs Humans for the Arts, which aims to foster academic, emotional, economic, and psychological growth through arts education and art therapy for at-risk and underserved youth. In 2022, she was nominated for the Points of Light Inspiration Honor Roll for her humanitarian work. Outside of her nonprofit, Melina coaches and directs actors of various experience levels to further develop their skills. She continues to work as an actor, writer, and producer and can’t wait to create new creative projects!
Annie Mokatsyan
As seen in Forbes Magazine for her humanitarian work, Annie Mokatsyan was born and raised in Los Angeles, California with a passion in the arts and nonprofit endeavors. Annie found fervor in acting at the age of nine and became identified as gifted in performing arts in the state of California since 2015. Annie enjoys exposing her performances on stage and has a background in improv, drama, and film endeavors in which she has been seen in.
Molly Sewalk
Molly Sewalk is a professional Event Planner, handling corporate, non-profit, and private events, utilizing virtual event platforms to keep our global communities connected and engaged in a meaningful way. With over 10 years in the industry, Molly has had the privilege of working with some of the world’s most recognized museums, non-profits, and Presidential administrations.
She is currently serving as an Election District Leader for Ward 4, District 11 for Westchester County, and is a proud mother to a vivacious, young daughter.
A Hunter Alum, with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in 18th Century European Art & Historical Ecology, her love of the arts began as a child. With a background in ballet, theater and classical flute, oboe & piccolo, her love, and recognition of the transformative power of art has only grown with age and experience.
Dr. Sadeghi-Yekta
Dr. Sadeghi-Yekta received her BA (Honours) and MA in Theatre Studies from Utrecht University, The Netherlands, and her Ph.D. in Drama, Applied Theatre from The University of Manchester, United Kingdom. She is a faculty member in the Theatre department at the University of Victoria, BC, Canada. Prior to teaching in Canada, she was a Lecturer in Drama and Theatre in London, and a graduate teaching assistant at The University of Manchester.
As a theatre practitioner, Dr. Sadeghi-Yekta has been involved in projects with different communities and in a variety of countries. For instance, she has worked with the Hul’q’umi’num’ community on Vancouver Island, with children in the Downtown Eastside in Vancouver, young people in Brazilian favelas, young woman in rural areas of Cambodia, adolescents in Nicaragua, and students with special needs in schools in The Netherlands. Currently, she is working on her SSHRC Partnership Development Grant and Insight Development Grant on Coast Salish language revitalization through theatre.
Her research has been supported by different scholarships, including SSHRC’s Partnership Development Grant; SSHRC’s Insight Development Grant; and the Prince Bernhard Scholarship for excellent research capacities, which is administered under the auspices of His Royal Highness Prince Carlos de Bourbon de Parma.
Giuditta Niccoli
Giuditta Niccoli is an actress, former dancer and Founder of Association Acto based in Italy.
She graduated in 2021 at Centro Teatro Attivo Milan. Since childhood Giuditta has been trained on stage and works with teachers all around the world such as Hollywood acting coach Bernard Hiller. She’s currently working and living in Italy producing the shows of her theatre company “Yours, Cyrano.”
She has appeared in the tv series “Domina”(2021), in the upcoming series “A Casa Tutti Bene 2”(2023) on Sky and in many indie movies such as Antropophagus II(2022), The Dream Fisher(coming 2022), Italian docu-fiction Stanotte a Firenze(2017) with Alberto Angela to name a few. She is also involved as a volunteer in some Italian indie festivals, events and shows.
Ambassadors
Theodora Miranne
An actress and producer, known for Legacies (2018), Gemini Man (2019) and The Blacklist: Redemption (2017).
Eliana Ghen
Eliana has appeared in Netflix's hit show Insatiable, NBC's Ordinary Joe, Hulu's Dopesick, Hulu's The Girl from Plainville, and Bezos, as well as Camila Cabello and Bazzi's music video, Beautiful.
Marios Gavrilis
Marios Gavrilis is a Greek-German actor and Voice Arts Awards winning voice actor working internationally and is based in Los Angeles and Berlin. He has voiced lead characters in major Videos Games such as Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, Far Cry 6 and Batman in Gotham Knights as well as Denver in Netflix’s Money Heist and has dubbed two-times Oscar winner Mahershala Ali in True Detective 3. 2019, he starred in his self-produced and award winning short film Shots Fired, addressing police violence and racism.