Richard Skipper Celebrates Jamie deRoy, Part Two: The Broadway Years, live-streaming on Monday, July 20 at 8 PM ET on Richard Skipper Celebrates on Facebook and YouTube, to benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Thereafter, the show is available on most podcast platforms and iHeartRadio
deRoy is an award-winning producer; cabaret, stage, film and TV performer; recording artist/producer and humanitarian. In addition to seven Tony Awards®, she has won eight MAC Awards, six Drama Desk awards, two Audience Choice Awards, six Drama League Awards, four Back Stage Bistro Awards, 13 Telly Awards and CaB Magazine’s Lifetime Achievement Award. She has been honored by Theatre Works/USA, Primary Stages and with the Ruth Kurtzman MAC Award.
She’s also a frequent presence on the New York nightclub scene, and has produced nine CDs in the Jamie deRoy & friends series on Harbinger and PS Classics labels. Her long-running shows benefit her favorite charitable causes, such as “The Actors Fund: Jamie deRoy & friends Cabaret Initiative,” a program to assist people in the cabaret industry with help for medical needs and concerns. On Broadway, she has co-produced 60 shows and 46 Off-Broadway shows. TV and film producing credits include the Emmy-nominated “The Biggest Little Operas in Town” for Channel 13 and Rick McKay’s documentaries Broadway: The Golden Age and Broadway: Beyond The Golden Age. Acting credits include: appearances on the television shows “Alice,” “Spiderman” and “Knight Rider,” and in the films GoodFellas, Raging Bull, See No Evil, Hear No Evil and Married To It. Onstage, deRoy appeared with Rene Auberjonois in The Threepenny Opera, as well as in The Drunkard with musical direction by Barry Manilow.
Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS is one of the nation’s leading industry-based HIV/AIDS fundraising and grant-making organizations, funding the social service work of The Actors Fund and awarding grants to AIDS service organizations nationwide. https://broadwaycares.org/
Richard Skipper Celebrates, has been called a cross between James Lipton and Merv Griffin, with a little Liberace thrown in! Streams LIVE through and YouTube Mondays at 5PM ET. Skipper is an entertainer, raconteur, arts advocate, theater historian and promotions/marketing guru. Under the guise of Richard Skipper Celebrates, he has conducted over 700 interviews celebrating people in the arts. Recent interviews have included Karen Mason, Brian Michael Hoffman, Bill Boggs, Melissa Manchester, Lesley Ann Warren, Dee Wallace, Tony Award winner Anthony Crivello, cabaret icon Marta Sanders, and Tony Award winner Donna McKechnie. He opened his show, An Evening with Richard Skipper: From Conway to Broadway Off Broadway at St. Luke’s Theatre last August. He then took it to his hometown of Conway SC where it all began for him, The Theatre of The Republic, and The American Popular Song Society in NY. www.RichardSkipper.com
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