Jonelle M. Meyer has been performing professionally in the Tampa Bay area for the past 17 years in over 50 productions with more than 10 theatre companies, playing no more than 300 and no less than 200 characters. She also thinks numbers are impressive and confusing. Some of Jonelle’s credits include Corky in
Meteor Shower, Elinor in
Morningside, Agnes in
Dancing at Lughnasa, Cassandra in
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, and the one woman run of
The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe as the charmingly homeless Trudy and 12 other characters. Jonelle is the creator and star of the Jobsite Digital Short;
Too Far with Mort LaCourt. Her Mort LaCourt character won her a Creative Loafing Best of the Bay Award for “Best Fake Newsperson” in 2017. She also received the Jeff Norton Award for best actress in a Comedy for
Shipwrecked! (Gorilla Theatre), was nominated by Broadway World as best actress for
Almost an Evening (Jobsite) and was nominated as best featured actress by Theatre Tampa Bay for her roles in
Gnit (Tampa Rep) and
7 Homeless Mammoths Wander New England (American Stage). Jonelle is a proud graduate of Florida School of the Arts with an AS in Acting, a long time cast member of the sketch comedy troupe Some Sort of Show and was featured as a Banana Nut Muffin on the TV and in the TBT.
