Jodi Stevens

Jodi was born in New Jersey. Her grandfather was a bandleader in the 1940s in New York City, and her mother, who taught her to sing, was a performer with her grandfather's band. At seventeen she entered the Miss Philadelphia Pageant and was the runner-up, but realizing she enjoyed performing more than competition, she returned the following year as a featured performer. Jodi majored in theater with a concentration in classics at Penn State University. During her senior year she won a part in an off-Broadway show called My Name is Pablo Picasso, which ran for eight weeks. She played Sheila in the Surflight Theatre production of A Chorus Line in which she danced and sang "At the Ballet" and was part of the national tour of Lend Me A Tenor, in which she played Maggie. Subsequently she produced and starred in Tennessee Williams' one-act play, 27 Wagons Full of Cotton at the Intar Theatre on 42nd Street. She next appeared in Bodyshop at New York's Westbeth Theatre, receiving outstanding c