Jonathan Melo

Jonathan Melo is an Actor, Voice-Over Actor, and Singer-Songwriter based in New York City. His talent has graced audiences in several areas in television, film, animation, commercials, radio, and stage. Jonathan was born and raised in Salem, Massachusetts, in a first generation Dominican family household.

“Jonathan Melo is all gamine joy, and a rollercoaster of hope and hurt” “You will fall in love.” -BroadwayWorld

“Melo’s ingratiating, mellow vocals”- Ithaca Times Daily

Melo is a proud Marymount Manhattan College alumni; he received his BA in Acting with a minor in Musical Theatre and was also blessed to perform across New York City Off-Broadway Theatres and Live Performance Venues along side Frank Wildhorn, Patricia Birch, Titus Burgess, and Emmy Raver Lampman. Shortly after he went on to study under renowned acting coach Anthony Abeson. 

His recent credits include Disney’s animated feature film Strange World playing the role of Diazo, Ethans love interest. A major move for Disney making Jonathan Melo as Diazo an official Disney prince and an LGBTQ+ icon.

“Strange World finally delivers the queer version of Disney magic we’ve been waiting for” - Matthew Huff

Jonathan is also part of the new cast of Nickelodeon’s Monster High playing the role of Clawd Wolf a series favorite and regular, a co-star role on American Horror Story ‘New York City’ Season 11 on FX and Hulu as Theo’s Handsome Stranger, Netflix’s Reality Z, several National Commercial spots for Petsmart, Ritz, Kinder Joy, Chipotle, AT&T, T-MOBILE, and Adobe. He also gave voice to EVERY SINGLE CHARACTER on NETFLIX’S TRIVIA QUEST. He was the lead role playing Will in the Off-Broadway production Girlfriend, a musical by Todd Almond and Matthew Sweet, a supporting role of Monté in the Off- Broadway play Alexandria by Vince Gatton, a principle role as Shortstop in 2018 Superbowl Commercial 'Every Day Athletes', a  co-star role on CBS's BLUE BLOODS, a supporting role as Murphy in the new musical Sweetie, and a supporting role as Don Diego in the musical SkippyJon Jones: Snow What?! by Emmy Award Winner Kevin Del Aguilar.