Born as Vanessa Lee in Bedford in 1972 she began Ballet at the tender age of 3yrs old!
She trained in all forms of Dance, winning many awards including The East Midlands Modern Dance Championship in 1987.
This then developed into LAMDA Drama and ESB examinations and she received the Most Promising Actress award at the Northampton Drama and Music Festival for her solo Acting piece as Gisela from "The Tinderbox"
During her childhood she was fortunate enough to spend many years performing at The Royal Theatre in Northampton under the direction of Artistic Director Michael Napier Brown appearing as "Julie Jackson" in Hugh Whitmore's spy thriller A PACK OF LIES and numerous pantomimes.
At 17 yrs She went on to train at the prestigious Arts Educational Schools, Chiswick, London where she was chosen in her second year by Cameron Mackintosh to appear in "Moby Dick- A Whale of a Tale" at the Piccadilly Theatre London. where she appeared as Swarm and understudied and played one of the leads.
Other favourite Credits to date include."Sheila Franklin" in HAIR (Euro Tour),
"Squeeky Fromme" in ASSASSINS.(Komedia, Brighton), Star to be/Dance Captain in "ANNIE" (N0 1 UK Tour), "Racksha Mother Wolf "in JUNGLE BOOK(Cheltenham Everyman), "Dina Calamari" THE WEDDING (Cafe Royal London)
"Mary Jeffers" in FROM HELL SHE CAME (Pleasance, Edinburgh Festival and The Gate, London).
Jodie is also one of the UK's finest Principal Boys in Pantomime appearing as Aladdin and Prince Charming in numerous productions for E&B and Qdos Entertainments.
Jodie was also chosen for Paul Elliot and Chris Moreno's Inaugral season aboard P&O's Oriana as a member of the Rep company. Roles included: "Rizzo" in GREASE, "Helen Walsingham" in HALF A SIXPENCE, "Tracy Lord" in HIGH SOCIETY and "Miss Blacklock" in A MURDER IS ANNOUNCED.
Jodie recently understudied "Rose Stopnick Gellman" in the British Premiere of "CAROLINE OR CHANGE" at the Lytteleton Theatre at The National Theatre which has just received the Evening Standard Award for Best Musical 2006 and also was awarded the Olivier for Best Musical 2007
hey jodie, hope you're well. please forgive another shameless plug, i thought it would be nice to go round everyone individually to spread the word...
'coming up for air' (previously unreleased track from 2003), and my record 'growing flowers by candlelight' are now available on digital download from i tunes worldwide (they'll be on other download stores soon also).
'flowers' is also available on cd from ainsliemusic.com (all copies sold through the site are signed and i ship worldwide), all branches of beanscene and edinburgh branches of hmv.
JODIE MICHAELS
Hey! I'm back from the tour, and i made a little video of some of the highlights of 2006....complete with an encounter i had with a Japanese toilet!! If you get a chance....you can see it on youtube....click here to watch it. Anyway, take care and i hope to see you somewhere on the road....i hit it again in May!
Kevin
JODIE MICHAELS
Happy New Year!!! I hope Santa was nice to you this year, and that 2007 is a great year.
We play Nottingham tonight, then Bristol, and Newcastle on Sunday......and then we have a couple of well needed days off. Al Perkins is playing his butt off on the tour....
Anyway, here is a little video i made of the guys in the band..for a laugh!...the Shawn Byrne bit will crack you up! Click here to watch it. Anyway, take care and hope to see you soon! Kevin
