About

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

She is currently in post-production for her feature film Puddysticks, which she is writing, directing, and acting in alongside Dan Bakkedahl (HBO’s Veep), Emmy-nominee Mamoudou Athie (Jurassic World, Patti Cake$) and Danny Deferrari (Shiva Baby), and is produced by Alex Coco (A24’s Red Rocket).

In 2021, she released her fictional podcast Every Year on My Half Birthday, which she created and stars in with Dan Bakkedahl and Peter Vack (Netflix’s Someone Great).

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's company), and the Art of Elysium.

As an actress, she played opposite breakout star Helena Howard in Twist, which premiered in competition at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival, on which she also served as co-producer. It won the jury prize at the 2020 Florida Film Festival, and qualified for the 2021 Academy Awards. She studies with Harry Mastrogeorge and can be seen in the upcoming first ever Filipino-American musical feature film 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.