MELODY BARTA
Mrs. Wormwood
Melody is excited to be joining this fabulous, talented, and supportive team to play Mrs. Wormwood in Matilda! This role is such fun to play - a vapid, insecure, money-hungry dance fiend, who she hopes to have little in common with.
Melody last worked with ECHO Players in 2012, when she played Rosie in Dancing at Lughnasa.
It’s been too long since she spent time on stage, having most recently participated in the NTG Christmas pantomime as Alan-A-Dale in Robin Hood and His Very Merry Men (2018).
Other favourite past theatrical experiences include playing Soupy Sue in Urinetown (Schmooze, 2016), Lulu in Cabaret (NTG, 2014), Thea in Spring Awakening (Schmooze, 2013), Joanne in Godspell (NTG, 2010), and Gertrude McFuzz in Seussical (Arts Alive, 2005).
When not on stage, Melody works as a teacher-librarian and wants to reassure the kids in the audience that at school in real life she’s more of a Mrs. Phelps than a Headmistress Trunchbull!