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Jamie deRoy & friends

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 17 years, Jamie has hosted and produced the critically acclaimed variety show, Jamie deRoy & friends, which also serves as a basis for her 15-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 Mac Rae: 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. Jamie’s Broadway producing credits include November, Coram Boy (Outer Critics’ Circle nomination), the Tony-award winning Jay Johnson: The Two and Only, Chita Rivera: The Dancer’s 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 Thirteen’s 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.