an award-winning actor, who has appeared in dozens of series and films.  She is perhaps most well-known for playing “Dana” - Olivia Rodrigo’s mom, in the High School Musical series on Disney+.  She can also be seen on I Love That for You, The Goldbergs, Grey’s Anatomy, One Big Happy, Bad Judge and 2 Broke Girls, among others.  She stars with Melissa McCarthy in the scripted episodic podcast Hildy the Barback and has voiced characters on Aunties and The Mike Tyson Mysteries.

An accomplished singer and dancer, Michelle has been in numerous world premiere plays and musicals and was in the original tour of “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.”  More recently, she played Bebe in a star-studded benefit production of “A Chorus Line,” where she was joined by Kristen Bell and Ana Gasteyer for the famous “At the Ballet” trio.  She regularly hosts a “living room cabaret” where writers, directors, comedians and Broadway veterans gather in her home for the pure love of sharing a song for each other.

Michelle won Best Actress in a Short Film at L.A. Film Festival, for her work in Overshare, which she wrote and which was also her cinematic directing debut.