Josie Adams is a writer and producer based in New Jersey.

In 2025, she founded House of Water, an independent, women-led production company focused on writing and development for film, TV, books, audio, and theater. She maintains an active slate across multiple mediums and is continually developing new projects.

She recently appeared in two episodes of the CNN Originals culinary travel series Breaking Bread (“Marseille” and “Wisconsin”) alongside her father, actor Tony Shalhoub (Monk, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel), and has the great honor of co-writing a culinary narrative memoir with him, forthcoming from Simon & Schuster in 2026.

Her writing has appeared in McSweeney’s, Bon Appétit, and on Audible. After her sleep story “The Tea Shoppe” became a cult favorite among Audible’s sleep story listeners, she went on to write twelve additional stories for celebrity narrators, scheduled for monthly release throughout 2026.

She has attended the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and the Yale Writers’ Conference, and holds a BFA in Theatre from CalArts along with multiple culinary degrees. For the past decade, she worked as a professional copywriter across tech, e-commerce, and publishing.

She was adopted at birth from Omaha, Nebraska, and raised in Los Angeles.