For The New Phoenix Theatre-LA: Martha Brewster in Arsenic & Old Lace.

Mary Jo has voiced the role of Mrs. Puff, SpongeBob SquarePants teacher, since the Nickelodeon cartoon’s 1999 premiere. She made her off-Broadway debut in 1963 in Along Came A Spider and the following year made her Broadway debut in Hello Dolly! playing Ernestina opposite Carol Channing in New York, and Ginger Rogers on a national tour.

Other Broadway musical credits include: Canterbury Tales; Greenwillow; Different Times; Lysistrata; Fashion and The Pajama Game. Theatre credits include Come Back Little Sheba, (1976 LA Drama Critics Award), Philadelphia Here I Come (1980 L.A. Drama Critics Award); the lead in Annie Get Your Gun; How to Succeed in Business; Romeo & Juliet, Twelfth Night; 27 Wagons Full of Cotton; Naomi Court; Our Town; Beauty and the Beast; Big River; The Full Monty and Nunsense and its many offshoots.

Select TV credits include: “Diff’rent Strokes;” “The Bob Newhart Show;” “M*A*S*H;” “Mr. Belvedere;” “Night Court;” “Gimme a Break;” “Saved by The Bell,” “Maude,” “Welcome Back Kotter,” “Murder She Wrote,” “Matlock;” “Fantasy Island” and “General Hospital,” for which she received a 1972 Emmy Award nomination. Films include “Bananas;” “High Anxiety;” “Semi-Tough;” “The Champ;” “The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas;” “Serial Mom;” “Surprise Surprise;” “Cross” and “How to Be A Serial Killer.” She is familiar to millions of viewers from over 30 national television commercials.