Marilyn Michaels

Marilyn Michaels is a comedienne, singer, actress, author and composer.

Her comedy and impressions have been the focus of every major television talk and variety show, including: “Comedy Central,” “The Tonight Show,” “The Today Show,” and “The Howard Stern Show.” She has hosted several specials for WLIW/PBS, Lifetime and Comedy Central, and is the recipient of an Outer Critic Circle Award and Drama League Award for her performance on Broadway in Catskills on Broadway.

Marilyn was chosen by composer Jule Styne to play Fanny Brice in the National Company of Funny Girl.

She was the only female performer in the Emmy winning comedy series "The Kopykats" for ABC (Smith Hemion Productions), and later starred with Rich Little for the Diet 7 Up Campaign, "Look Who’s Turning Diet 7 Up."

Marilyn appeared in a pictorial for Playboy as Bette Midler, Bo Derek, Julie Andrews, Barbra Streisand, Donna Summer, Lily Tomlin and Brooke Shields. Woody Allen cast her in a cameo as 30’s film star Mae West in Zelig. When Allen decided to cut the piece, preferring documentary footage to an impression, Marilyn wrote of her experience working with Allen, for US Magazine.

Michaels is liberally quoted in David Evanier’s new biography of Woody Allen, entitled Woody (Macmillan/St. Martin’s Press) and has contributed to the best seller The Rules for Online Dating (Pocket Books), by Ellen Fein and Sherrie Schneider. She has also written two articles for The New York Times regarding the proposed revival of Funny Girl. She has done all the voices for the Emmy Winning PBS series "Reading Rainbow,” for the book Gregory the Terrible Eater, and was all the voices for the satire audio book, Frankly Scarlett, I Do Give a Damn. (Harper Collins)