Jodi graduated from film school at NYU, where she began her career in theatre, film, television, and commercials. Soon after, she directed the award-winning short film A Limited Engagement. After moving to L.A., Jodi received the coveted Disney Directing Fellowship, working in both multi and single camera episodic television.  She's directed multiple episodes of  ABC’s Boy Meets World and You Wish.

 

An established Producer and Director, most recently, Jodi directed two biopic stories, Fit for Murder (Lifetime) based on actual events, the true story of Craig Titus and Kelly Ryan, body-building royalty who got caught up in the murder of their assistant, starring Tory Trowbridge and Brock Yurich. Prisoner of Love (Tubi), the story of the upstanding corrections officer who broke her convict boyfriend out of prison and went on the run for 11 days in the spring of 2022.  The film stars Nicholle Tom and Adam Mayfield. In 2023 Jodi directed the whodunnit: Below Deck Deceit starring Shelley Sterling and Sarah Jane Morris.

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Previously, Jodi directed the thriller, I’ll Be Watching starring Janel Parrish (Pretty Little Liars) which aired on Lifetime Worldwide. 

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Jodi is the Emmy-nominated Co-Executive Producer of Lisa Kudrow’s Web Therapy, one of the first high profile web series to move to television (Showtime). Jodi was a producing director of the highly rated Syfy/Netflix series Z Nation for 5 seasons. as well as the Netflix Original series Black Summer .  

Jodi is working to get her original screenplay #Sibtrip! into production in 2026.  She also wrote (adapted) the screenplay and will direct the YA film, All You Get Is Me based on the award-winning novel by Yvonne Prinz.

Proud to be one of the 7% of female “Helmers” in Hollywood, Jodi is as comfortable with comedy as she is with drama. Jodi’s romantic Christmas comedy A Snowglobe Christmas is an annual favorite starring Alicia Witt and Donald Faison and her poignant comedy Call Waiting, was the Official Selection of 9 major film festivals and was lauded as the WINNER of the Jury Prize for BEST COMEDY at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival as well as BEST COMEDY at Tiburon International Film Festival.

Jodi lives in Los Angeles and maintains Canadian Permanent Residency. Of all the work she’s proud of, foremost is her daughter, Logan, who is an Agent at the Creative Artists Agency.