Current and Past Collaborators
Tree.Lock//Productions Origin
In 2018, Sterling texted Meg to see if she wanted to collaborate on a dance-theater piece that would span the country, and launch them toward founding Tree.Lock//Productions. Since then they have premiered four original works in the Minnesota Fringe Festival, Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Philly Free Fringe, and independently. In 2025, longtime friend and collaborator, Andrew Lindvall, joined as co-producer, rounding out the core team. We celebrate the expansive list of collaborators we have been able to work with, and are continuously searching for more like-minded creatives. We are further developing and solidifying our company, investigating our modern existence through contemporary dance, physical theater, and improvisation. Please join us for or open rehearsal series as we grow.
Core Producers
Sterling Melcher
Sterling is a director and performer based out of Minneapolis. His work focuses on the collision of disparate forms of creation and their outcomes. A graduate of the Pig Iron School in Philadelphia, he uses physical theater to investigate the absurdities of our world through otherworldly character creation and speculative narrative archs. His work has been featured in the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, the Minnesota Fringe, bike shops, riverfronts, and cheesesteak shops.
Meg Singh
Andrew Lindvall
Past Collaborators
Savannah Reich is a playwright and screenwriter whose work is focused on experimental forms and unusual engagement with audiences. Her plays have been produced at theaters and universities across the country; commissioned by Walking Shadow Theater Company, the University of Minnesota, SuperGroup, and Caridad Svich at the Lucille Lortel Theater; developed by the Playwrights Center, The Flea, and Seven Devils New Play Foundry; and supported by residencies at Tofte Lake Art Center, MassMoCA, and Millay Arts. She is a longtime DIY arts producer who has created and toured original works to bars, basements, backyards, and occasionally even theaters across the country for over 15 years. Her feature-length screenplay “Beebe and Barton” was the winner of the national Sloan Student Grand Jury Prize in 2015, and her short film “Men Among Men” was the winner of the Bill Murray Comedy Award at the Twin Cities Film Festival (judged by Bill Murray himself). She was a 2020/21 McKnight Fellow at the Playwrights Center, and her auto-theater experiment “Oedipus in Seattle” was the winner of the audience choice award at the 2022 Philadelphia Fringe Festival. She holds an MFA from Carnegie Mellon, where she was mentored by Rob Handel, and as of September 2024 is a new Assistant Professor of Playwriting & Screenwriting at Drexel University in Philadelphia.