BIOGRAPHY
Michelle Jasso is an award-honored performer with credits encompassing opera, cabaret, theatre, television, commercial, and voiceover. Within her repertoire of over 25 leading and supporting roles, favorites include the title role in Puccini’s Suor Angelica, The Witch (Into the Woods), Sally Bowles (Cabaret), The Beggar Woman (Sweeney Todd, Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award recipient: Featured Actress in a Musical), Ursula (The Little Mermaid), Lily (The Secret Garden), and Elizaveta Grushinskaya (Grand Hotel, Jeff Award recipient: Performer in a Supporting Role, Non-Equity). At the time of the COVID-19 shutdown, Jasso was on the national tour of The King’s Speech, and was also in its North American premiere at Chicago Shakespeare Theater in fall 2019, the cast of which included Harry Hadden-Paton (Broadway’s My Fair Lady, Downton Abbey, The Crown) and James Frain (The Tudors, True Blood, The White Queen). She has also appeared in Chicagoland with Music Theater Works, Porchlight Music Theatre, Kokandy Productions, Lifeline Theatre, and Oil Lamp Theatre, and regionally with TheatreSquared, the Wyoming Theatre Festival, Opera Grand Rapids, Portland Opera, and The Industry in Los Angeles.
Michelle has appeared in co-star roles on NBC’s Chicago PD, on the hit Showtime series The Chi, and on Investigation Discovery’s I Almost Got Away With It. She also appeared in a Latine web series entitled Border'd, which may be viewed on Open Television (OTV).
A Mexican-American California native, Michelle just returned to her native Los Angeles after several years in the Chicago market. She is a proud member of Actors’ Equity, SAG-AFTRA, and AGMA, and is represented for theatre by Big Mouth Talent Chicago and by Henriksen Talent Management in Los Angeles.
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