Trained and experienced stage actress transitioning into audio narration!
STAGE/LIVE THEATRE (Select Recent Roles):
On Golden Pond (Ethel); A Streetcar Named Desire (Eunice); Justice (Dorothy Dix); Thoroughly Modern Millie (Miss Flanery); The Full Monty (Jeanette); Lettice and Lovage (Lettice); Plaza Suite (Karen, Muriel & Norma); Vagina Monologues (“Memory of her Face,” "Under the Burqa"); Talking With (Marbles)
COMMERCIAL TV:
Sugardown (Spokesperson, National commercial); Wendys (Principal character, National commercial); Huggies (Principal character, National commercial)
FILM:
JCPenney “Project Salon” (Penny); Kaleidoscope (Mother/ Character Role); Money for Nothing (Janice)
VOICEOVER/NARRATION:
Communicating Intimacy in Older Adulthood (Narrator); Communication Among Grandmothers, Mothers, and Adult Daughters (Narrator); Various Tag line radio
2012 Patrick Fraley Voiceover training
1995 Ph.D. Performance Studies USC
1985 M.F.A. Acting USC
1981-1983 Actor Training with Zina Provendie
1982 B.A. Psychology & Communication
Michelle is a Ph.D. in Social Science Research and an audiophile who listens and performs narration for both fiction and nonfiction, including academic or technical titles. She is involved in health research but also live theatre, having played a variety of recent theatrical roles such as the Kate Hepburn role in "On Golden Pond" and all three female leads in "Plaza Suite."