Jody Gelb has a forty-year career acting on stage and screen. She has portrayed roles in the Tony Award-winning Broadway plays The Who’s Tommy, Titanic, Big River, and Wicked, among others.

Gelb also played Joan of Arc’s mother in the David Byrne rock opera Joan of Arc: Into the Fire at The Public Theater in New York and was featured in the world premiere of Shel Silverstein’s Wild Life with Julie Hagerty, Henderson Forsythe, William H. Macy, and Raynor Scheine.

On television, she has appeared in guest roles in Gunplay, Law & Order, and Dr. Death.

Gelb is now following the career of her daughter, Dora Jar, as she tours the USA and the world as a singer-songwriter.