Education
She grew up in Tenafly, New Jersey. She attended Rockland Country Day School for elementary school in New York and then Tenafly High School. Michele was home schooled one year while working in Toronto, Ontario on Ragtime. She attended Stagedoor Manor in the Catskills, a center for performing arts training.She was then later accepted to the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, but opted instead to continue working professionally on the stage.