The
MISSION
The Encore Project is a mentorship initiative dedicated to empowering young performing artists from the ages of 14-21 using a holistic approach that centers mental health, personal wellness, creative development, and professional training. We believe that thriving artists begin with thriving individuals — and every young performer deserves a safe, supportive space to grow both on and off the stage.
Join The Cast: What we Offer
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Start Here: Artist to Artist
Not sure what kind of support you need yet? Start here with a warm Encore Introduction.
Artist to Artist is a one-time, 60-minute mentorship session designed to give you space to step outside the demands of your craft and focus on you , the person behind the artist.
Together, we’ll talk through where you are right now, what’s feeling challenging, and what you want your life and career as an artist to feel like moving forward.
Whether you’re navigating confidence, comparison, rejection, identity, career uncertainty, burnout, or simply trying to build a healthier relationship with your artistry, this session gives us space to identify what you need and where you can begin.
You’ll leave with greater clarity, personalized insight, and tangible next steps. No ongoing commitment required.
60 Minutes | $150
Want to continue the work? Enroll within 7 days of your session, and your $150 session fee will be applied toward your mentorship package.
Come for the conversation. Continue if it feels right.
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Go Deeper: 1:1 Mentorship
The Encore Project is built around a developed mentorship framework exploring the challenges that come with building a life and career as an artist, from identity and self-worth to confidence, rejection, comparison, perfectionism, boundaries, and beyond.
Go Deeper: 1:1 Mentorship draws from this framework to create an experience centered around you.
Following your Artist to Artist session, we’ll identify the areas where you could use the most support and build a mentorship plan using The Encore’s guided conversations, exercises, journal work, projects, and practical tools.
You’ll know what we’re working toward and why, while still having the flexibility for our work to evolve as you do.
4-Session Personalized Mentorship | $750
Includes:
4 private 60-minute sessions, personalized mentorship plan, guided exercises & projects, journal and reflection work, practical tools & resourcesYour next step is yours. Your mentorship should be, too.
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Step & Repeat
The work doesn’t end when your mentorship does. The Encore Project is always a place to come back to.
Step & Repeat offers returning Encore artists the opportunity to book individual 1:1 mentorship sessions after completing a mentorship package.
Whether you’re navigating a new challenge, facing a career transition, working through an old pattern that’s resurfaced, or simply need a thoughtful check-in, Step & Repeat gives you space to return to the work when you need it.
Because we’ve already established your goals, explored your experiences, and built a shared foundation through ongoing mentorship, these sessions can meet you exactly where you are without starting over.
60 minutes | $200
Available exclusively to artists who have completed a 1:1 Mentorship package.
Book one session when you need it. Come back again when you need another.
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The Green Room Project
Complimentary Weekly Community for 1:1 Mentorship Artists
The work may be personal, but you don’t have to do it alone.
The Green Room Project is a weekly group gathering exclusively for artists currently participating in 1:1 Mentorship with The Encore Project.
It’s a space to step outside of the audition room, rehearsal studio, classroom, or stage and connect with other artists navigating many of the same things you are.
Through honest conversation, shared reflection, and community, The Green Room Project creates space for the conversations we don’t always get to have about what it really means to be an artist.
Included with your 1:1 Mentorship experience.
MEET OUR FOUNDER
Jodeci Milhouse is a Broadway performer, director, choreographer, educator, singer-songwriter, independent recording artist, and the founder of The Encore Project.
Throughout her career, Jodeci has built a multifaceted life in the arts, performing on some of the country’s most renowned stages while also creating and releasing her own music as a singer-songwriter and independent recording artist. Her work spans Broadway, regional theatre, concert dance, television and film, national and international touring, and original music. Most recently, she made her Broadway debut in A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical. Additional credits include Mona in New York City Center’s Encores! The Tap Dance Kid, Deena Jones in Dreamgirls at Baltimore Center Stage, and Dancin’ Doll in Signature Theatre’s filmed production of After Midnight. She has also toured nationally and internationally with the critically acclaimed percussive dance company SOLE Defined.
Her career has allowed her to work alongside some of the industry’s most respected artists, including Tony Award-winning director Kenny Leon, Schele Williams, Christopher Renshaw, Tony Goldwyn, Jared Grimes, and Rickey Tripp.
But Jodeci’s work in the entertainment industry has also given her an intimate understanding of what exists beyond the résumé—the rejection, comparison, uncertainty, pressure to perform, and constant relationship between an artist’s identity and their work.
That experience sparked a growing passion for the mental and emotional well-being of performing artists.
Jodeci believes artists deserve the same level of intention in caring for their minds, confidence, identity, and overall well-being that they are taught to give their craft. She created The Encore Project to provide a space for the conversations that are too often missing from traditional artistic training and to help performers build healthier, more sustainable relationships with themselves and their careers.
Through mentorship, education, and honest conversation, Jodeci is committed to helping artists navigate the industry without losing themselves inside of it.