Mel England
- Actor
- Producer
- Writer
Mel England has starred on Screen and Stage, Off Broadway, internationally and across the USA, most recently in the play "Electricity", winning Best Actor in Tour from Lavender Magazine. In title role of "Ron And Laura Take Back America", England won Best Acting Ensemble, two Best Actor nominations, and the film which he co-wrote and co-directed with Janice Markham, earned 14 other wins and nominations, including Best Comedy & Best Director, and co-stars Golden Globe Best Actress Nominee Irene Bedard. He stars in the feature "Best Day Ever", available on Amazon Prime (Best LGBT Film, IndieFest), and appears alongside Academy Award Best Actress Nominee and Golden Globe Winner Sally Kirkland in "Archeology of a Woman". He recently signed to star with Kirkland in the upcoming film "Love Anonymous". England also stars in "Little Big Top" with horror film star Sid Haig (released worldwide on Netflix), in dark comedy "Persona Au Gratin" (Best Comedy, IndieFest), and "Highlights" (Best Drama Nominee, Moviefone Film Festival). Most recently, he can be seen in "From Zero to I Love You", and in the TV movie "Fame at a Deadly Cost" on Liftetime and internationally on Canal.
On Stage, England's solo show "Swimming with the Polar Bears" directed by Jill Andre, premiered Off-Broadway as part of a benefit for The Climate Project, featuring posters of the show signed by former Vice President Al Gore, and then toured world-wide, to the 2009 UN Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen, LA, and the National Mall in Washington DC for the 40th Anniversary of Earth Day. Other Off Broadway credits include "Hecuba", "Marriage" & "The Imaginary Invalid". England's solo show "Navajo Memoirs" was dubbed "Ingenious" by Backstage. He starred in the NY & LA premieres of Israel Horovitz's one-man "3 Weeks After Paradise", Other notable productions include "Lucky Man" (Best Acting Ensemble, NY Fringe), "A Shayna Maidel" (Best Play of the Year, Denver), and he was a proud part of the original NY productions of Chris Sanderson's "Midsummer Night's Dream" in Washington Square, "Sea Monkeys" by Tony Nominee Chad Beguelin ("The Prom"), "The Honeysuckles" (developed for TV by FOX), "Freddy" at LA's Fountain Theatre, and "King of Connecticut" with Phillip Seymour Hoffman.
On Stage, England's solo show "Swimming with the Polar Bears" directed by Jill Andre, premiered Off-Broadway as part of a benefit for The Climate Project, featuring posters of the show signed by former Vice President Al Gore, and then toured world-wide, to the 2009 UN Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen, LA, and the National Mall in Washington DC for the 40th Anniversary of Earth Day. Other Off Broadway credits include "Hecuba", "Marriage" & "The Imaginary Invalid". England's solo show "Navajo Memoirs" was dubbed "Ingenious" by Backstage. He starred in the NY & LA premieres of Israel Horovitz's one-man "3 Weeks After Paradise", Other notable productions include "Lucky Man" (Best Acting Ensemble, NY Fringe), "A Shayna Maidel" (Best Play of the Year, Denver), and he was a proud part of the original NY productions of Chris Sanderson's "Midsummer Night's Dream" in Washington Square, "Sea Monkeys" by Tony Nominee Chad Beguelin ("The Prom"), "The Honeysuckles" (developed for TV by FOX), "Freddy" at LA's Fountain Theatre, and "King of Connecticut" with Phillip Seymour Hoffman.