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Jay
Kerr
Creative Musical Services
932 County Road 523
Flemington, NJ 08822
mobile/text: 212.582.5118 email: jay@jaykerr.com |
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EDUCATION: |
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A.B.,
English; Princeton University
M.A., Mass Communications; California State University, Northridge |
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ACADEMIA: |
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Staff
or Adjunct Faculty at:
Writers' Workshop (Co-facilitator), Princeton University Triangle
Club; California State University, Northridge; HB Studio, New
York; West Side YMCA Theater Arts Program, NYC; Estelle Harman
Actors' Workshop, Hollywood. |
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CONSULTANT/COACH: |
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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 project
to be directed by/starring Richard Dreyfuss; Accompanist, Coach,
or Instructor to, among others: Ina Balin, Elayne Boosler, Dorothy
Collins, Sandy Dennis, Molly Ephraim, Elizabeth Franz, Anita Gillette, Debbie Gravitte, Mister
Greenjeans, Bob Gunton, Ellie Kemper, Hal Linden, Jane Olivor, Teri Ralston, Jarrod Spector, Rudy Tronto, Martin Vidnovic, Dee Wallace, Lillias White, and
Joanne Woodward. |
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COMPOSER/LYRICIST: |
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Frank and Stein: The Karaoke Musical, written with Jerry Gretzinger - Fort Salem Theater, Salem, NY
You're an Old Man, Charlie Brown, parody of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, by Clark Gesner. With Jeremy Blachman - Fort Salem Theater, Salem, NY
Dracula's Grandmother - Fort Salem Theater, Salem, NY
Women in My Life - Fort Salem Theater, Salem, NY; Not-So-Common-Players, Clifton Park, NY
Can You Hear Me Now?, book by Al Budde - Fort Salem Theater, Salem, NY
The Elf Express, book by Jim Raposa - Annual Holiday Musical on a Train sponsored by Manchester (VT) Lions Club
Winning the Lottery, book by Al Budde - Fort Salem Theater, Salem, NY
Significant Others, book by Al Budde - Fort Salem Theater, Salem, NY
Senior Moments; a/k/a Full Steam Ahead!, book by Al Budde, lyrics by Kerr and various collaborators - Fort Salem Theater, Salem, NY. Published by ArtAge Publications and lease through Senior Theater Resources (https://www.seniortheatre.com/one-more-tomorrow/)
Starcrossed: A Tale of Tragedy and Triumph in Old Hollywood, book by Al Budde, based on a story by Kate Brex - Fort Salem Theater, Salem, NY
Corn! The Musical, book by Al Budde - Fort Salem Theater, Salem, NY
Breakfast Epiphanies, lyrics by Kerr and Al Budde, book by Budde - Fort Salem Theater, Salem, NY
Alice of Old Vincennes, lyrics by Laurel Smith, book by Jim Spurrier - Red Skelton Center for the Performing Arts, Vincennes, Indiana
Moonlight on the Wabash, A Musical Revue by Jay
Kerr, lyrics by Kerr and various collaborators - Vincennes
University, Indiana
Pyrates, book/lyrics by Barbara Kahn
- Theater for the New City, NYC
War Bonds, book/lyrics by Barbara Kahn - Theater for the New
City, NYC, CD on Original Cast Records
Arthur! A Boy Becomes King, book by Geoff Peterson - Broadway (The Playhouse Theatre);
TYA regional tour; The Theatre, West Hollywood
Pinocchio, book by Geoff Peterson, Greenwich Mews Theater; WNYC-TV, New York
(PBS)
Little Red Riding Hood: A Feminist Ecological Musical - California State University, Northridge; Fort Salem Theater, Salem, NY
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 on CD, Live at Jan Wallman's.
Lynne Kerr: Songs My Husband Wrote, CD Recording.
Additional collaborations: Lady Fashion,
with Carmel Rosa; Stages, with Mitch Uscher; The Gods
Are Only Human, with Norman Beim. |
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NOTABLE
MUSICAL DIRECTION: |
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Performances at The Cabaret at Fort Salem Theater featuring Broadway and Cabaret artists.
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); It's a Wonderful Laugh (1997); The
Tiger Roars, celebration of Princeton University's 250th Anniversary
(1996); Pulpit Fiction (1996). |
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