About

Jody Catlin has performed on stage, television and film in New York, The Regions, Los Angeles and San Diego; including Broadway, Off, & Off-Off-Broadway, Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival, the Guthrie, NJ Shakespeare Festival, Stage West, The Colony Theatre, The Old Globe Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse WOW Festival, Ion Theatre, 10th Ave. Arts, Onstage Playhouse. Favorite roles include Juliet, Viola, Phaedra, and Roxanne. NYC roles include The Mott in Bawdy Early English Music Hall Songs, original lead roles in Leonard Melfi’s Porno Stars at Home and Fantasies at the Frick, and Sister Anita in The Price of Genius. Other favorite musical roles are Molly and Mrs. Fitzpatrick in Tom Jones, and Arlette in The Last Metro in Los Angeles. San Diego performances include: stage—Adlean in Barbecue by Robert O’Hara at The Old Globe, Jody in The Music Sounds Different To Me Now by Bil Wright at the La Jolla WOW Festival, Roberta in Bekah Brunstetter’s Going to a Place Where You Already Are, Erlich in The Spin Doctor by David Budde, Mother Superior in The Color of Light by Jesse Kornbluth, To the Light by Bil Wright, Sister Aloysius in John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt. Recent films include—The Count, directed by Sean George, Little Treasures by Sidney Franklin, Deep In Her Heart by Bel Canzoneri, Downstage, directed by Sue Vicory; Exit Interview, by Holly Rone, Absent, by Sariann Monaco and Sue Vicory. Jody has also enjoyed acting in 8 soap operas, several TV shows, and 48 commercials. Jody has taught Creative Dramatics and Creative Movement to children and adults, taught ballet and worked in Public Relations for a dance company. She graduated from Grossmont High, and The College of William and Mary (BA in Theatre Arts), and studied with Uta Hagen, acting; Richard Morse, mime; Elizabeth Karns and Paul Barry, fencing; Marion Brown, Bill Lockwood, Michael Robinson, Robert Casel, voice; Phil Black, tap; Luigi, jazz. Jody’s book, Sharing the Journey; Becoming a Caregiver for Your Parents, is available for free upon request.

Jody’s daughter, Yvette Deas, an artist, has joined Jody in San Diego and it is such a joy for us to share our careers with each other. Yvette attained her Bachelor degree at Berkeley and her Master’s in art at Stanford, where she taught art for 8 years; also taught art in Continuing Studies for 9. Yvette now teaches art in prisons with PAC (Prison Arts Collective) based at San Diego State. Jody and Yvie are having a wonderful time supporting each other’s arts—attending Yvette’s gallery openings and festival juried art shows, as well as Jody’s plays and films and awards festivals. They also revel in the delights of San Diego such as swimming with seals at La Jolla Cove, hiking the many nature trails nearby, and appreciating the wondrous sights and events of Balboa Park…just to mention a few of San Diego’s thrills.