Her work in TV and film has featured her alongside actors such as Sissy Spacek, Dustin Hoffman, Keir Dullea, Jake Gyllenhaal and Beau Bridges.
From 2009 to 2013, Melia was a senior company member and performer in the award-winning production of Sleep No More, for which she created and originated the role of Hecate.
In 2012 she was part of the MIT/ NESTA project at Sleep No More which utilized online gaming and live video.
[4][5] In 2014 she founded Walden Shakespeare which is in residence in Massachusetts at NARA Park Amphitheater.
In 2017 she premiered The Gertrude Bell Project, a solo show based on the life of British explorer, politician and spy Gertrude Bell, at Boston Center for the Arts.