Michele Shay (born in 1955) is an American actress and stage director.
Born in Tuskegee, Alabama,[2] Shay is the daughter of a veterinarian father and an accountant mother who later turned probation officer.
[3][4] After initially planning a social worker career, she eventually decided to embrace acting following her personal success in a school variety show.
[5] She made her professional debut at the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, in The Balcony by Jean Genet.
[10] Shay also worked on television and films, directed numerous plays, and taught acting in several institutions, including the Michigan University, the California Institute of the Arts, the American Conservatory Theater, and the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.