Jo Ellen Pellman

Jo Ellen Pellman is a trained stage and film actor based in Brooklyn, New York.

 

She made her film debut opposite Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman in The Prom (dir. Ryan Murphy, Netflix). Her performance was lauded by The New York Times and earned her the Hollywood Creative Alliance's Rising Star Award. Other credits include: two seasons of 1923 (Paramount+), The Deuce (HBO), The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Amazon), and Alternatino (Comedy Central). Audiobook: Sabrina Brier's That Friend (Simon & Schuster). 

 

Her writing and producing work has been supported by NYSCA, the YoungArts Foundation and ArtsKC, and has screened at the Museum of Modern Art. 

 

She holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from the  University of Michigan, with a minor in creative writing, and studied Shakespeare at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. ​She's from Cincinnati, Ohio.