Josie Adams is a writer, producer, and founder of House of Water, an independent, women-led production company focused on writing and development for film, TV, books, audio, and theater.

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

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.

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 copywriter across tech, e-commerce, and publishing, before deciding to leave the corporate world.

She lives in New Jersey with her husband and two children.