Melissa House

Mel House is an Emmy-winning actor, writer and producer.

She won a 2025 New York Emmy Award for her work as writer, showrunner and star of HOT ANGRY MOM—a feminist punk-rock comedy about embracing your whole self, including your rage. The series screened at 26 festivals worldwide, earning over fifty nominations and twenty-three awards, including Best TV Pilot, Best Actress and an award for Representation of Women in Film.

On screen, Mel stars as Julie in "When Everything Was Blue," a short film that qualified for the 98th Academy Awards and as Parker in "The Binding" opposite Mike Houston (Rabbit, Rabbit) and Hudson Yang (Fresh Off the Boat). Other film credits include "Marina" (Cannes), "4960" (Slamdance), and she will also appear in "Miss Mermaid," selected for the 2025 Tribeca Creator’s Market.

On television, Mel guest-starred on CBS’s "FBI: Most Wanted" as Leah Wilson, a character inspired by Kathy Bates’s role in "Misery," starred opposite Chad Coleman in Showtime’s Broken Bird, and won two Telly Awards for HOT ANGRY MOM.

On stage, Mel was recently nominated for a Broadway World Award for her role as Maggie in Andrea Assaf’s Joyce Award–winning play "Drone" at the Detroit Public Theatre, and as Heidi in "What the Constitution Means to Me" at Syracuse Stage. Regional highlights include "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" (Arts Center of Coastal Carolina), "Roan at the Gates" (Luna Stage), and "Hedda Gabler" (North Coast Rep). Off-Broadway, she’s been seen in "Thistles" (59E59), "Shrunken Heads" (Playwrights Horizons), "Anaïs Nin Goes to Hell" (Manhattan Theatre Works) and "In the Bones" (NYIT Award for Outstanding Actress). Internationally, she toured with "The Baby Monitor" across Rome, Belgrade, Cagliari, Dublin and New York, and performed "All’s Well That Ends Well" at London’s Globe Theatre.

Mel is a proud member of the Actors Center Company, AEA, SAG-AFTRA, New York Women in Film & Television, the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, and is a certified teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework®.