Lineage Tribe

MELODY PARRA

Melody Parra (aka Melody Marie Tavitian-Parra) was born in Los Angeles, CA. A graduate of UCLA, she majored in English and Spanish with a concentration in World Literature. While attending UCLA, Melody was a member of ACT III Theatre Ensemble, where she was cast as the lead in several classics, including Oedipus, Othello, and Antigone, among many others.

Melody is of Mexican/Ecuadorian descent on her mother’s side and French/Lebanese on her father’s. She is native in English and Spanish, and conversational in French. In addition to booking the lead role in Nicole Picard’s Lineage Tribe, Melody’s current work includes the lead in a pilot, as well as commercials and print work for Samsung, Chipotle, AMPM, and Mazda.

While working on Lineage Tribe, Melody especially enjoyed Picard’s direction, as well as learning martial arts choreography for the first time, along with the creative dance routines and participating in several original songs. She states, “Everyone in the cast/crew was lovely to work with, and each one brought a unique energy to this story about battered women bonding together in order to heal and reconstruct their lives.”

Melody Parra’s most recent work is a feature film titled Nena, which she wrote, produced, directed, and starred in. The film is a drama based on a true story and was made into two versions, shot in both English and Spanish, respectively. It is currently in post-production.

Besides acting, Melody loves dancing, cooking, painting, and spending time with her family and little dog, Oliver.

GRACE FAE

Grace Fae is a dramatic and comedic actress with experience in film, on television, and stage. Also a singer/songwriter, dancer, and director, Grace has written and produced two original plays, and an album.

She grew up in suburban Connecticut as an athlete and leader in student government and graduated from Yale University cum laude with a Theater/ English degree.

After college, Grace acted on many West Coast stages, winning Best Actress in a Drama at the Sacramento Area Regional Theater Awards (for her performance in Tennessee Williams’ Kingdom of Earth as Myrtle, the irrepressible Southern showgirl with a dark past) in 2013.

Now based in Los Angeles, Grace sings vintage jazz with two bands, is recurring on Roku’s Charlie as a fairy godmother, and is shooting a web series called Jack and Jill in which she plays a couch-surfing party princess.

KYLE COLTON

Originally from the suburbs of southeast Michigan, Kyle Colton has been acting for over 20 years. Since moving to Los Angeles in 2011, Kyle has had the pleasure of playing many parts in over 40 productions. He can be seen in “Alicia’s Dream,” “Sierra Burgess is a Loser” (Netflix), and “Marfa,” starring Tony Todd (Candy Man, 1992), which premiered in 2020. Playing Omar in “Lineage Tribe” was one of the most interesting roles he’s had to date, playing a young Brit with a dark past and even more mysterious abilities was a wonderful experience.

“I don’t have the chance to speak with a British accent, so that was fun, and then working with all of these women! How lucky can you get!”

Learning the dance choreography with Melody really built our camaraderie and helped our physical chemistry. Working down on the beach was magical. I loved the entire ensemble; such a warm and inviting energy from the entire cast.

Omar, the Arabian Brit, is only one of the few male roles in Lineage Tribe. Some inspirations for the character were a toned-down Jack Sparrow with stylings akin to Duran Duran and the English new wave.

NICOLE PICARD – Sunev

My Producer, Director and Writer’s hats are on!

Nicole loves being part of a creative community. Producing music videos, TV shows, and films gives Nicole the opportunity to elevate awareness about social issues she cares about. She has appeared on television, in film and theatre productions, working with some incredible names in the industry, like Michael Jackson, Andy Warhol, Bon Jovi, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Michael J. Fox, George Hamilton, and one of her favorite leading men, Ted McGinley. She continues to do so, having worked on the TV series, Jane the Virgin, Mapleworth Murders, and the Untitled Jordan Peele Project playing opposite Daniel Kaluuya.

Nicole is now creating her own projects; writing, composing, directing, acting and loving the whole process, producing new projects with her production company, Picard Productions.

Nicole has written the screenplay for Lineage Tribe, a musical web series, an epic production, for which she wrote the music and is playing one of the lead roles.”I love acting; there is something so unbelievably gratifying about playing different roles, but now it’s time to impart my wisdom in a whole new way. Working with young girls and women to help accelerate their careers.”

Lineage Tribe received multiple awards at the International Independent Short Film Festival in Los Angeles.