Other works

(1973) Album: "The Melvin Van Peebles Collection".

(2009) Interviewed in "Reflections on Blaxploitation: Actors and Directors Speak".

(1986) Music video: Directed "Funky Beat" for Whodini.

(1971) Stage: Wrote music / lyrics / book for "Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death [Tunes From Blackness]" (earliest Broadway credit). Musical. Musical direction and supervision: Harold Wheeler. Scenic Design by Kert Lundell. Directed by Gilbert Moses. Ethel Barrymore Theatre (moved to The Ambassador Theatre 17 Nov 1971-close): 20 Oct 1971-30 Jul 1972 (581 performances + 10 previews that began on 8 Oct 1971). Cast: Barbara Alston (as "Performer"), Toney Brealond (as "Performer"), Marilyn Coleman (as "Performer"), Bill Duke (as "Performer"; Broadway debut), Gloria Edwards (as "Performer"), Joe Fields (as "Performer"), Clebert Ford (as "Performer"), Arthur French (as "Performer"), Minnie Gentry (as "Performer"), Carl Gordon (as "Performer"), Albert Hall (as "Performer"), Jimmy Hayeson (as "Performer"), Sati Jamal (as "Performer"), Lauren Jones (as "Performer"), Garrett Morris (as "Performer"), Madge Wells (as "Performer"), Ralph Wilcox (as "Performer"), Dick Anthony Williams (as "Performer"), Beatrice Winde (as "Performer"). Replacement cast [During Ethel Barrymore Theatre run}: Charles Adu [Replaced Dick Williams] (as "Performer") [from 9 May 1972-?]. [During Ambassador Theatre run]: Cecelia Norfleet [Replaced Lauren Jones] (as "Performer") [from 4 Jan 1972-?]. Produced by Eugene V. Wolsk, Charles Blackwell, Emanuel Azenberg and Robert Malina. Associate Producer: Howard Friedman.

(1972) Stage Play: Don't Play Us Cheap! Musical/fantasy.

(1980) Stage Play: Reggae. Musical.

(1982) Stage Play: Waltz of the Stork. Comedy.

(9/13) His art work headlined a group exhibition at the Strivers Gardens Gallery in Harlem, New York City, in the debut as a painter in a show called "eMerge 2.0: Melvin Van Peebles & Artists on the Cusp"

Book: "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song: A Guerilla Filmmaking Manifesto" (filmed as Baadasssss! (2003)).