Melanie Anne Phillips is a prolific author, filmmaker, photographer and composer. She is primarily known as the founder of the transgender community on the world wide web and as the co-creator of Dramatica - a new theory of story structure that is the basis for the most widely used software for story development (also called Dramatica).Beginning life as David Michael Phillips, Melanie lived her life as a male until age thirty-six when she began a three year process of sex change, culminating with sex reassignment surgery.As a boy she began a career in filmmaking and music, eventually directing two feature films before the age of thirty and recording over thirty hours of original music.… During transition she kept a daily journal which has become the most widely read transition diary. She also maintained an audio journal with includes not only her gender experiences but a progressive development of Dramatica-based theory called Mental Relativity which culminates in her proposal of a unified field theory.Today, Melanie continues her creative and intellectual activities, developing new models of psychology and physics, composing experimental music, photographing nature, and editing her previous works to make more of the material available for publication.