Biography

 VELLA LOVELL can currently be seen on television as Mikaela on NBC’s Mr. Mayor, which returns for a second season in March 2022. She also stars in Comedy Central’s original Christmas movie parody A Clüsterfünke Christmas written by Ana Gasteyer and Rachel Dratch. She played Heather on the CW’s Emmy-winning series Crazy Ex-Girlfriend for four seasons, and she was the voice of Mermista on the Daytime Emmy and GLAAD award-winning Netflix series She Ra and the Princesses of Power. Other credits include Grace and Frankie, Girls, Younger, As We See It, and The Big Sick. On the stage, she has appeared in plays at the Geffen Playhouse, Yale Rep, and the Public Theater. Ms. Lovell listened to Peter and the Wolf incessantly as a small child and is thrilled and grateful to be here with the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra serving as the narrator. (Her younger self is freaking out.)