Mel James - PR and Marketing

26/05/2026

After many years working across marketing, events, hospitality and community engagement roles, I’m currently expanding my freelance marketing and social media support work alongside exploring new opportunities in North Yorkshire. 📣

I’m available to support local businesses, charities, hospitality venues and community organisations with:

- Social media content & scheduling
• Event promotion
• Marketing communications
• Audience engagement
• Newsletters & promotional copy
• Event and coordination support

I have experience working across hospitality, arts, charity and events sectors, and I enjoy helping organisations connect with their audiences in a practical, affordable and professional way.

If you know a business, venue or organisation that could use an extra pair of hands with marketing, events or communications support, I’d really appreciate any introductions, recommendations or shares.

Thank you — and please feel free to message me directly. 🙌

12/05/2026

THE BAND dress rehearsal selfie!! 🤩🎭

What a night… and what an incredible week ahead with the amazing 💛

BrassNeck’s The Band opens tonight at and I genuinely cannot wait for audiences to see it. Absolute masterpiece. They’ve done it again! 👏

If you’ve got tickets, you are in for such a treat — a beautiful Tim Firth story packed with the iconic hits of Take That. WOW!!! ✨

Pictured here with the fabulous Charlie Kirkpatrick of .photography 📸

Top tip: bring tissues!!! 🥲

🎭 The Band
📆 12–16 May
📍 Yeadon Town Hall Theatre
🎟️ ticketsource.co.uk/brassnecktheatre

03/05/2026

Another fabulous programme from Stu of Marmaduke Designs with just a bit of input from me.

This one should definitely go for a cheeky NODA North East award 🏆

19/04/2026

Great to work with Kirkpatrick Photography and BrassNeck Theatre on The Band!!! 😎

Cannot wait to show week in just 3 weeks!!! 🎉

02/04/2026

Less than 6 weeks for BrassNeck Theatre and it’s going to be amazing!!

As a Take That fan - am loving the brilliant music and the live band!!! 😎

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27/03/2026

🎭 HAPPY WORLD THEATRE DAY!!! 🎭

So lucky to do what I do - both onstage and behind the scenes!

Thank you to all the amazing people I’ve worked with and performed with this year! Here’s to another exciting year of musicals and plays!!!

(Sorry for some of these dodgy BTS selfies! - but so many good memories that go with them!)

Always love working with new clients and doing more of what I do - so if you’d like to collaborate on one of your exciting upcoming and coming show projects - message me here!

16/02/2026

Really looking forward to catching this in Harrogate next month!

🎭The American dream meets the American nightmare… on a stage near you.🎭
Ever chatted with a stranger on a sunny afternoon — about the weather, the view, or nothing much at all? And then wondered who they really are, and what they carry with them?

Peter thought it was just small talk. But Jerry had been waiting to tell his story…

Find out what happens next.

Edward Albee's 'The Zoo Story' (Running time: 60 minutes)
📅 28 February – Huby at The Stage At The Stable
📅 4 March – Leeds at The Cardigan Arms
📅 8 March – Harrogate at Wesley Centre

🎭 The Classic Theatre Project
Classical plays. Up close.
👉 www.classictheatreproject.com

06/02/2026

And we’ve made it to Friday!! 😅🥳

A proper theatre-filled February and it’s pretty relentless!!

❤️ Harrogate Dramatic Society – Season 2026
Lots happening behind the scenes as we start sharing what’s coming up later this year — plenty to look forward to.

👜 Handbagged 👜
Very nearly sold out now, which is just brilliant to see. Huge buzz around this one.

🗞️ Ink - incoming. Cast announcement coming soon and it’s selling well already! 💪🏻

🎭 The Dresser 🎭 - LOVE LOVE LOVE this one! And directed by the brilliant Rachel Conyers!
Auditions coming soon so show journey starting soon again…another sure hit!

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Jerusalem- the BIG ONE!! The main house - best play ever is being prepped in the wings!!
Controversial to some but an epic play with Dermot Hill directing. Can’t wait!! 🤩

📸 Next Week’s Photoshoot!! 📸
Heading into a fantastic shoot with the lovely Matthew Kitchen Photography next week! Lots of BTS coming up for this one….😎

And Coming Up Soon!!

And finally! Prepping for the big photoshoot with Kirkpatrick Photography for BrassNeck Theatre
‘The Band’ with the epic and very talented cast and of course spreading that word around….!!

Phew!!

And the rest of 2026 is now open!!!

I’ve opened the books for a few more show journeys this year — if you’ve got a production coming up and want to chat PR & marketing, feel free to get in touch.

That’s February so far — busy, wonderfully creative and very theatrical.

Happy Friday! 🎭✨

📸 Steffany Collette and Made You Look

🎭 ❤️

27/10/2025

✨ It’s been a busy old time — a flurry of shows and plays through 2025!✨

I’ve loved being a small (and sometimes fairly big!) cog in all these wonderful productions, and I’m so looking forward to rounding off the year with the brilliant but emotional Barnbow Canaries. 💛

Thank you all for following me through these show journeys — it means the absolute world.

2026 is winking at me already… 👀✨

🎨 Marmaduke Designs

👉 melaniejamespr.co.uk ✨

13/10/2025

BACK TO BACK WITH 2 INCREDIBLE SHOWS!! 🤩

Starting this week with the SOLD OUT production of Goodnight Mister Tom with the Harrogate Dramatic Society at the Harrogate Theatre.

And then NEXT WEEK with the sassy and very naughty and very funny DISENCHANTED THE MUSICAL 🍎 gang at the The Joseph Rowntree Theatre which is selling very well! (PG13)

Both excellent shows and so proud to be a little cog in their productions!

Might be a ‘3 shredded wheat’ couple of weeks but can’t wait!!!