| Jay
Kerr Convenient West Side Location New York, New York 212.582.5118 fax: 201.569.7690 jay@jaykerr.com |
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| EDUCATION: | ||
| A.B.,
English; Princeton University M.A., Mass Communications; California State University, Northridge |
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| CONSULTANT/COACH: | ||
| Coach to Phil Silvers for A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, for which Silvers won the Tony Award; Musical Consultant to Dreyfuss/James Productions on film in development to be directed by and starring Richard Dreyfuss; Accompanist, Coach, or Instructor to, among others: Ina Balin, Elayne Boosler, Dorothy Collins, Sandy Dennis, Elizabeth Franz, Debbie Gravitte, Mister Greenjeans, Bob Gunton, Hal Linden, Jane Olivor, Dee Wallace, and Joanne Woodward. | ||
| COMPOSER/LYRICIST: | ||
| Moonlight on the Wabash, A Musical Revue by Jay
Kerr, lyrics by Kerr and various collaborators- Vincennes
University, Indiana Pyrates, lyrics by Barbara Kahn - Theater for the New City, NYC; War Bonds, lyrics by Barbara Kahn - Theater for the New City, NYC, CD on Original Cast Records; Arthur! A Boy Becomes King - Broadway (The Playhouse Theatre); TYA regional tour; The Theatre, West Hollywood; Pinocchio - Greenwich Mews Theater; WNYC-TV, New York (PBS); Little Red Riding Hood: A Feminist Ecological Musical - California State University, Northridge; W*A*S*P, A Musical Revenge - Variety Arts Center, LA; Freddy's, NY. Cabaret Writing and Performance: Musical Supervision and Special Material for Neva Small: Not Quite an Ingenue and producer of CD of same, directed by Pamela Hall and featuring musical director Don Rebic and bassist Dick Sarpola; Special Material for various artists, including writing collaborator Ed Kulkosky’s Becoming Santa; longtime songwriting collaboration with Arthur Kirson (50 songs), including A Million Dreams, recorded by Judy Kreston and David Lahm. Pre-production, 2006: Alice of Old Vincennes, pagent drama to premiere 2008 at Red Skelton Center for the Peforming Arts, Vincennes, Indiana, with lyrics by Laurel Smith, book by James Spurrier. Additional collaborations: Lady Fashion, with Carmel Rosa; Stages, with Mitch Uscher; The Gods Are Only Human, with Norman Beim. |
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| RECENT MUSICAL DIRECTION: |
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| Broadway Sings "The Odd
Potato," with
Frank Gorshin & Charlotte Rae (2003) and CD featuring 20 Tony
Award winners, including Jim Dale, Sutton Foster, Judy Kaye, John
Mahoney and Elaine Stritch (www.theoddpotato.com); also Old
Friends - (Eighty-Eights, New York): a revue performed by
eight singers over sixty. Great Expectations - CD (Original
Cast Records) original adaptation starring Sally Ann Howes, George
S. Irving, Tovah Feldshuh and Neva Small. Come On Over: The
Songs of Gladys Shelley - (Don't Tell Mama, New York). Women
by Women - (Steve McGraw's, New York) a revue of songs examining
the female human condition, with lyrics written only by women. Princeton University Triangle Club: Musical Supervisor - Absurd to the Wise (2001); Puns of Steel (2000); The Blair Arch Project (1999); 101 Damnations (1998); In Lava and War (1998); t's a Wonderful Laugh (1997); The Tiger Roars, celebration of Princeton's 250th Anniversary (1996); Pulpit Fiction (1996). |
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