Melissa House

Teaching Artist

Mel House is a Bronx-based multi-hyphenate artist: a writer/creator, producer, actress, comedian, voice coach and mom. She is the founder of Staircase Productionz, an award-winning production company dedicated to developing and producing powerful film, digital series, theatre and podcasts that center queer and female protagonists, with the goal of improving parity representation throughout the entertainment industry and promoting conversations around gender, power and sexuality. 

Mel is the writer/creator of, and plays the mom in, HOT ANGRY MOM--an award-winning dark comedy series about a people-pleasing mom who discovers that anger is her superpower. In 2023-24, HOT ANGRY MOM was an Official Selection at twenty-six film festivals worldwide, including the Oscar-qualifying Hollyshorts, Cleveland International and Dances with Films, where it was nominated for fifty and won twenty-two awards, including Best TV pilot, Director, Actress, Ensemble and an award for Representation of Women in Film. The series also ranked #2 in the U.S. and #5 in the world in the 2023 Web Series World Cup—an international ranking of over six-hundred digital series. The team is currently on track to reach one-million moms with upcoming distribution on Mom Cave TV. 

Recently Mel guest starred on "FBI: Most Wanted" as Leah Wilson, a character inspired by Kathy Bates’ role in Misery, played Heidi in "What the Constitution Means to Me" at Syracuse Stage and toured internationally in Rome, Cagliari, Belgrade, and Dublin with "The Baby Monitor." She has played iconic roles from Shakespeare to Ibsen, working Off-Broadway, regionally, and internationally, as well as originating roles for the web, film, and TV. She is a proud member of the Actors Center Company, Literature to Life, NYWIFT, VASTA, SAG/AFTRA, AEA, and a Certified Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework®.