A Broadway, film, and television performer with a career built across stage, screen, education, and cultural storytelling.

Though easily recognizable from his Total Recall co-starring role opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mel is equally comfortable discussing the production of his one-man show Frederick Douglass: In the Shadow of Slavery, which premiered in California at the Torrance Cultural Arts Center, and his work with companies including Goldman Sachs, American Express, and Credit Suisse as a corporate counselor.

While living in Los Angeles, Mel served as Executive Producer of Shadow Entertainment’s Urban Horror label, Big City Pictures, producing the feature films Ragdoll, The Horrible Dr. Bones, Killjoy, and The Vault. He was also Artistic Director of The Imagination Workshop, whose community work earned an Ovation Award for Outstanding Community Outreach.

As a theater director, his work includes the award-winning Give ’em Hell Harry starring Jason Alexander, Oscar to Oscar, The Me Nobody Knows, The Ballad of Lizard Gulch, The Last White Man in the World, and Tom Dugan’s Robert E. Lee: Shades of Gray.

Mel’s Broadway credits include On the Twentieth Century, Eubie!, The Rink, Bob Fosse’s Big Deal, The Lion King, and Hot Feet!. He has a long relationship with The New York Shakespeare Festival, including the Shakespeare in the Park revival of Two Gentlemen of Verona.