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“Jody Gelb has written a book so rare and elegant and beautiful that I don’t even know how to categorize it: Essay? Poetry? Memoir? I think I might just call it a ‘monument.’ What a stunning work of art, of truth, and of love.”
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.
Nov 6, 2023 · A stage actor’s account of her unconventional life with a disabled daughter. The daughter of an Episcopalian mother and Jewish father, Gelb, who has appeared on Broadway in Wicked and Titanic, among other productions, grew up as “a hybrid. Calm and hysterical. Peaceful and self-loathing.”.
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Nov 7, 2023 · In dense, lyrical prose, Jody Gelb pays tribute to her daughter's short life. She lays bare her experience, from profound suffering to ecstatic joy. It is a mother-daughter memoir scrubbed of sentiment, the naked truth of being human in this imperfect world.
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Jody Gelb is an actor and author based in the San Francisco Bay Area best known for her roles on Broadway in the Tony Award–winning plays Titanic, The Who’s Tommy, and Wicked, in which she also toured nationally, as well as television appearances on Law & Order and Dr. Death.
Jan 2, 2024 · Broadway Actor Jody Gelb Takes on Her Latest Role: Author. Jody Gelb, who has performed on stage and screen, spent over 20 years crafting a personal and searing story. In the canon on grief, a slim shelf has been written by loss parents.
Jody Gelb is a Broadway and television actor and the author of She May Be Lying Down but She May Be Very Happy published by Kelson Books on November 7, 2023. Read writing from Jody Gelb...
