Life
is much more than a cabaret for the versatile performer Jamie deRoy, who is equally
celebrated as an actress, record producer, and talk show host. A gifted
singer/comedienne, Jamie has appeared as Joan Rivers' opening act in New York
and Los Angeles, and headlined at every major club in New York. Jamie has also
enjoyed successful engagements at Caesar's, Showboat and Trump Plaza in Atlantic
City, as well as at The Sahara in Lake Tahoe.
For the past 18 years, Jamie
has hosted and produced the critically acclaimed variety show, Jamie deRoy
& friends, which also serves as a basis for her 16-year-old cable television
show, Jamie deRoy & friends. She has earned ten Telly Awards and won
the Northeast Video Festival. Jamie has produced eight CDs in the Jamie
deRoy & friends series, which are available on the Harbinger Records and
PS Classics labels. The Child in Me: Volume 1, Tis the Season and
Animal Tracks each earned Jamie MAC Awards for Recording of the Year.
Jamie
is also the Executive Producer on several Harbinger releases, including Heather
MacRae: Songs For My Father (2002 MAC Award for Solo Artist) and the recently
released Mabel Mercer: Previously Unreleased Live Performances. Jamie's
expertise extends into theatre, television and film. Jamies Broadway producing
credits include November, Coram Boy (Outer Critics Circle
nomination), the Tony-award winning Jay Johnson: The Two and Only, Chita
Rivera: The Dancers Life, and Say Goodnight Gracie (TONY nomination).
Her Off-Broadway credits include: Beebo Brinker Chronicles, Make Me a Song:
The Music of William Finn, Dividing the Estate, Opus, Spalding Gray: Stories Left
to Tell, Indian Blood (Outer Critics Circle Award), Exits and Entrances,
Adrift in Macao, Dedication or The Stuff of Dreams, and both versions The
Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged). With Rick McKay, she produced
the Emmy-nominated segment The Biggest Little Operas in Town for Channel
Thirteens City/Arts, as well as that show's Where Do Musicals Come
From? and All That Glitters. Jamie is also one of the producers
of McKay's successful documentary, Broadway: The Golden Age (Telly Award
PBS Broadcast), now available on DVD. And the upcoming sequels More of Broadway:
The Golden Age and Broadway: The Next Generation. As an actress,
Jamie has guest starred on numerous TV series including Alice, Spiderman
and Knight Rider. Her film credits include GoodFellas, Raging Bull,
See No Evil Hear No Evil, and Married to It. Onstage, Jamie appeared
with Rene Auberjonois in The Threepenny Opera, as well as in The Drunkard
with musical direction by Barry Manilow (who became her musical director for several
years). Jamie has earned a total of eight MAC Awards, four Back Stage Bistro
Awards and CaB Magazine's Lifetime Achievement Award. She is President Emeritus
of MAC, and was one of the first women to join the famed New York Friars Club.
She also sits on the Board of The Friars Foundation, and is on the Honorary Boards
of CAP21 and the Humane Society of New York. Jamie also has strong affiliations
with New York Women in Film & Television, American Women in Radio and Television
(AWRT) and The League of Professional Theatre Women. |