Biographie
Michelle is an actor and producer with extensive experience across Canada. Her film and television credits include Frequency, Dead of Summer, The Romeo Section, The Whispers, Supernatural, A Novel Romance, Accidental Obsession, Traders on CTV, and two seasons as a series lead on CBC's evening drama Riverdale. She also completed the independent feature film Backroads, which was screened at the Sundance Film Festival, and the short film Sleepwalk, which won the Audience Choice Award at the New York City Short Horror Film Festival.
An accomplished theatre actor, Michelle is a founding member, producer, and Marketing & Communications Director of Classic Chic Productions (www.classicchic.ca). She portrayed Tom Hagen in Classic Chic's production of Corleone: The Shakespearean Godfather at Pacific Theatre and Ricky Roma in David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross. She was delighted to play the tortured Antigonus in The Winter's Tale, directed by Lisa Wolpe, Artistic Director of the Los Angeles Women's Shakespeare Company. Michelle also performed the title role in Daniel MacIvor's one-woman show See Bob Run at One Yellow Rabbit Performance Theatre in Calgary and Workshop West Theatre in Edmonton. Both theatres also featured her own acclaimed one-woman show, To Hear With Eyes, during their main stage seasons.
Other selected theatre credits include Colette in Four Dogs and a Bone (Egg Theatre), Les Liaisons Dangereuses and A Christmas Carol (Theatre Calgary), The Importance of Being Earnest and Fool for Love (Theatre Junction), Cressida (Workshop West), Misalliance and Night Must Fall (Shaw Festival), 1-900-Dee-Lite (Persephone Theatre), All in the Timing (Summer at the Roxy), Hitting Town (Alchemy Theatre Projects), Cymbeline (Shakespeare in the Rough), Twelfth Night (University of Toronto, Graduate Centre for Drama), and Summerfolk (Equity Showcase Theatre). Michelle holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from York University.
