Vella Lovell stars as Chief of Staff Mikaela Shaw on the NBC comedy "Mr. Mayor."Lovell is best known for her standout series regular role as Heather Davis on all four seasons of CW's "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend." She is currently recurring in the new Amazon Prime coming-of-age series "As We See It." Lovell is also the voice of Mermista in the animated Netflix series "She-Ra and the Princesses of Power" (2020 Critics' Choice Nominee - Best Animated Series).On the film side, she is best known for her role in the indie hit "The Big Sick" and recently starred in the Comedy Central holiday parody movie "A Clüsterfünke Christmas," which was written and produced by "Saturday Night Live" alums Rachel Dratch and Ana Gasteyer.A graduate from the Juilliard School, Lovell has a bachelor's degree from New York University. While at Julliard, she played Anna Mae in Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottages' "By the Way, Meet Vera Stark," and Lady Macbeth in an adaptation of "Macbeth." She has also performed in "The Bacchae," directed by JoAnne Akalaitis at Shakespeare in the Park, and "The Great Recession" as well as "Kaspar Hauser" at the Flea Theater.At Williamstown Theatre Festival, she was seen in "A Streetcar Named Desire," directed by David Cromer, "When You're Here" by Samuel Hunter and "Camp Monster."