“Serial Murderess” marks Melissa Weaver's third collaboration with Amanda Moody. Recently, Weaver directed “The History Lesson,” an opera by Howard Hersh, presented by the Festival of New American Music; and the experimental opera entitled “Kali,” with Indonesian poet/activist Gonewan Mohammad, composers Jarrad Powell and Tony Prabowo, the New Jakarta Ensemble and tenor John Duykers. Produced by Gamelan Pacifica, “Kali” premiered at On The Boards in June, 2000. Weaver is artistic director and co-founder of Agapé Performance Group. With Agapé, she conceived and directed new theatre works including “a.ga.pe,” “Last Stand” and “Trespass Knot,” featuring music by Miguel Frasconi and choreography by Jess Curtis. Weaver also directed Rinde Eckert's “The Gardening of Thomas D.” which toured nationally and overseas. Weaver also directed Eckert in “Dry Land Divine” at Zellerbach Onstage and at DTW in New York. She directed John Duykers in and designed Henze's “El Cimmaron” which was given the LA Times Beckmesser Award for Outstanding Contemporary Performance of 1983. Weaver was a founding member of the George Coates Performance Works and has been Production Director for the Paul Dresher Ensemble since 1986, collaborating in the creation of new music theatre pieces including “The Way of How,” “are/are,” “SeeHear,” “Slow Fire,” “Awed Behavior,” “Ravenshead” and the design for the Paul Dresher Ensemble Electro-Acoustic Band, touring through the US, Europe and Japan. Miss Weaver is currently collaborating in the development of two upcoming music theatre works: the new opera, “Caliban Dreams,” with composer Clark Suprynowicz, commissioned by the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival under artistic director Charles McCue; and the original oratorio, “Bitter Harvest (a love story),” with composer Kurt Rohde and sound designer Mark Grey, for The Berkeley Symphony Orchestra under the musical direction of Kent Nagano.