Maryanne Melloan Woods is a playwright/author/screenwriter. In her career as a tv writer/producer, Maryanne has worked on shows  for networks including NBC, Showtime, ABC, Fox, the WB, Nickelodeon and ABC Family.

Maryanne's plays have been staged by theaters and programs such as HBO's New Writers Project and the Mark Taper Forum in L.A, and Playwrights Horizons and Primary Stages in New York.

Maryanne has won the New England Theatre Conference's John Gassner Playwriting Contest, the Venice (CA) Playwrights' Festival and the Long Beach Playhouse New Works Festival.  She also received a playwriting grant from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. 

Maryanne’s screenplay, "Steve,” won “Best Comedy Feature Script” at the 2016 Nashville Film Festival.  Her YA novel "Lazarus, " a paranormal thriller, was published by Owl Hollow Press in 2020.

Maryanne is a Librettists Member of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop in New York City.  She is also a member of the Writers Guild of America West, The Dramatists Guild, the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators.