Melissa Johnson Email & Phone Number

Melissa Johnson has had all the jobs and done all the things. *She is the founding mother of Miss Havisham’s Curiosities (www.misshavishamscuriosities.com), a décor and lifestyle brand for discerning individuals with darker sensibilities.Her now infamous insult teacups are the official cups of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert's Tea4Tuesday segments and have been showcased by Bust Magazine, Boing Boing, Bored Panda, and Extra Crispy among others. Before launching MHC, Melissa spent over 20 years as a production and development executive in New York and Los Angeles specializing in animation. She has created content for clients such as The Colbert Report, Saturday Night Live, Comedy Central, Robert Smigel’s TV Funhouse, MTV, A&E, Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, BET, and Oxygen. She's developed content for feature films, television series, on air promotions, websites and video games and comic books. She's a writer, a producer, a wise cracker, and a lover of all things haunted or weird. Melissa served as Head of Production at Buck Design (www.buck.tv) and We are Royale (www.weareroyale.com). She cut her teeth at the series/development lab, X-Chromosome for Oxygen Media which created and produced thirteen original series in two years and remains the only animated development lab ever created for women by women.She is married to Emmy winning puppeteer and director, Tim Lagasse. Together they like to travel, find perfect tiny objects, and train their growing cat circus. *An incomplete list of odd jobs and career tangents. Poor performance noted where necessary:Apple pickerSheep wrangler (Below average)School janitorCanadian sex researcherTheatrical costume designerTaco Bell bean cook (Fainted once)Editor of obscure Slavic academic journalColumnist (Overly opinionated)Ph.D candidateWorker in a troll factory (Fired)National Endowment for the Humanities grant recipientWriter of obituariesArt gallery assistantSitter of babes (Poorly suited yet patient)Library ladyPasta cook (Surly)Joke writerOrchestra tour managerHungarian tour guideDaughter (Not the favorite one but hard working nonetheless)

Listed skills include Writer, Joker, Tiger Tamer, Television, and 18 others.