About

Megan Seely is an award-winning writer/director/actress who has honed her ability to use dark comedy to reveal unspoken everyday truths. 

Her debut feature Puddysticks is currently playing across the nation, theatrically distributed by The Future of Film is Female in collaboration with NEON. She wrote, directed, and starred in the film with Dan Bakkedahl (Veep), Emmy-nominee Mamoudou Athie (The Drama) and Danny Deferrari (Shiva Baby), produced by Oscar-winner Alex Coco (Anora).

In 2021, she released her fictional podcast Every Year on My Half Birthday, which she created and starred in with Dan Bakkedahl and Peter Vack (The Sweet East).

Her short, My Loyal Audience, which she wrote, directed, and starred in, won the favorite film of the Catalina Film Festival and best Emerging Filmmaker at the Sunscreen Film Festival, and has played across the nation, including at the Florida Film Festival, Newport Beach Film Festival, and Santa Fe Independent Film Festival.

She co-wrote The Mad Whale, a feature starring Camilla Belle, Summer Phoenix, Dominic Rains, and James Franco (now streaming on Amazon Prime), and has worked closely with Borderline Films (Sean Durkin, Antonio Campos, Josh Mond), Indian Paintbrush (Wes Anderson films), and the Art of Elysium.

As an actress, she can next be seen alongside pop-dup Magdalena Bay in Amanda Kramer’s upcoming feature Imaginal Disk, premiering at the 2026 Tribeca Film Festival. She studied with Harry Mastrogeorge, played opposite Helena Howard in Twist (premiered at Tribeca and qualified for the Academy Awards), and acted in the Filipino-American musical The Girl Who Left Home.

Megan received her M.F.A. in Film & Television Production from the USC School of Cinematic Arts and her B.A. from Vanderbilt University.