Michelle Docherty

Michelle is a supporting character in A Performer's Life Beyond the Drapes, and is Elena's roommate.

Compared to the other characters, she's never shown performing in a musical (despite being a student of School of Drama). Instead, she is seen as the Stage Manager for Wicked, The Phantom of the Opera (although she later becomes the de facto director for this), Into the Woods, and Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella.

Appearance
Michelle is of average height, and has pale skin and hazel eyes. Due to her Alopecia, she has small patches of thin, black hair on her head. Because of this, she usually wears various multi-colored wigs. Whenever she is relaxing, she opts for a simple beanie in place of a wig.

Her style is described as a pastel goth, and she wears soft-colored funky outfits, sometimes even wearing fake glasses.

She is also sometimes known to wear colored contact lenses to look even more unique.

Personality
Michelle has a polite and fair-spoken attitude towards almost everyone, but often has a sense of anxiety about her. Due to her past of being bullied due to her lack of hair, she is cautious around most people.

Michelle is a Sia fangirl, and has a dream to become a pop singer like her. She also chooses to express herself with funky-colored wigs and pastel-goth outfits, making her appearance somewhat similar to that of Sia (an obvious exception being Michelle doesn't cover her face).

Despite her dream to become a singer, Michelle usually chooses to stay out of the spotlight for musical productions; she instead chooses to be the stage manager. Given that she is given this job for some productions, it can be assumed that Michelle is a very responsible young woman.

However, Michelle has some self-esteem issues because of her Alopecia, which was a main target of bullying for her growing up. She doesn't show this much, and uses her wigs and outfits as somewhat of a mask for this.

It's shown that, if she is comfortable around a person, she will wear a beanie and plain clothes around them.

Elena Anderson
Elena treats Michelle with respect, something that the latter appreciates due to not receiving such treatment from people in the past. The reason Elena chose Michelle to be her roommate was because they were good friends in Elena's second year of middle school and Michelle's first year; due to not having seen each other for years, Elena saw this as a way to catch up.

Elena comes to Michelle's aid when the latter is being bullied, doing so because of her disapproval of bullying.

Trivia

 * The name Michelle is the French form of Michel, while the surname Docherty is the Scottish spelling of the Irish surname Doherty.
 * Her last name comes from Maggie Smith's character from NANNY MCPHEE RETURNS.