Melanie Hawkins was nominated for "Best Female in a Leading Performance" in the stage play "Eighteen." The play was well received by the then under appreciated LA theatre scene and led the 25th Annual LA WEEKLY Theatre Awards.
"The bombastic Nagle and the effectively reserved Bledsoe are excellent, but it is the precocious Hawkins whose intensity staggers us. She is unqualifiedly splendid, a young actor whose career bears watching."
-- F. Kathleen Foley, LA TIMES
"Hawkins is exquisite"