MEL ENGLAND has acted in Film, Television and Theatre roles since his debut at age 10 in CYRANO DE BERGERAC, directed by British Actor/Director Anton Rogers at the Dallas Theatre Center's Frank Lloyd Wright Theatre.

On Film, England co-starred in LITTLE BIG TOP with Sid Haig and Jacob Zachar, in the dark comedy PERSONA AU GRATIN, and more recently, as a Minister confronted with a crisis of faith at the funeral of his father in HIGHLIGHTS (nominated for Best Drama in the Moviefone Film Fest), and ARCHAELOGY OF A WOMAN. He’s currently shooting feature THE GRAWSILLS in Los Angeles, and recently signed to co-star in LOVE ANONYMOUS with Academy Award Best Actress Nominee and Golden Globe Winner Sally Kirkland.

Off Broadway, England’s solo show SWIMMING WITH THE POLAR BEARS premiered in April 2009 at the Bleecker Street Theatre in New York as part of a 3-day benefit for THE CLIMATE PROJECT, and featured posters of the show signed by former Vice President AL GORE. SWIMMING then toured world-wide, performing in Los Angeles, and at the 2009 UN SUMMIT ON CLIMATE CHANGE in Copenhagen, and on the National Mall in Washington DC as part of the 40th Anniversary of Earth Day. Other Off Broadway credits include HECUBA, THE MISANTHROPE and MARRIAGE.

In 2002, as part of the commemoration of the first anniversary of 9/11, England starred in the New York and then Los Angeles premieres of Israel Horovitz's One-Man play 3 WEEKS AFTER PARADISE at the Cherry Lane and 13th Street Theatres in New York and the Secret Rose in Los Angeles, to benefit WTC survivors. His own one-man show NAVAJO MEMOIRS, dubbed "Ingenious" by Backstage, premiered in New York, and he's the recipient of the NY Fringe Festival's "Best Acting Ensemble Award" for LUCKY MAN, and "Best Play of the Year" in Denver for the Regional Premiere of A SHAYNA MAIDEL. England has been a proud part of many notable New York productions, including the original casts of THE RING OF DEATH (by legendary Off Broadway writer H.M. Koutoukas) and MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM in Washington Square, HONEYSUCKLES (developed for TV by FOX),
SEA MONKEYS at Playwrights Horizons' by Chad Beguelin (Tony Nominee for Broadway's WEDDING SINGER),
and KING OF CONNECTICUT with Academy Award Winner Phillip Seymour Hoffman.

Other credits include Trofimov in Terry Schreiber's CHERRY ORCHARD, his critically-acclaimed
performance in O'Neill's ICEMAN COMETH in Denver, and the American premiere of Polish director
Lzeck Szopa's I, WITCACY at Tribeca Performing Arts Center. 

England has studied with Terry Schrieber, Stella Adler, at NYU, with members of the Royal Shakespeare Company at the British American Theatre Institute, with internationally-acclaimed director Agousto Boal, and at the High School for the Arts in Dallas. He worked on a dance/theatre piece by legendary Modern Dance choreographer Anna Sokolov. As a lyricist, England collaborated with Katie Agresta on several songs, featured in NAVAJO MEMOIRS.