Jamie deRoy & Friends Moves to New Time and Channel on Manhattan TV

For the past 18 years, Jamie DeRoy 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." The award-winning television show which chronicles theatre and cabaret talent will move to a new time and channel starting Sunday, March 29th airtime 7:30PM on channels: Time Warner 56/ RCN 83 every other Sunday. Produced by Jamie DeRoy & friends, inc. the show is directed by Barry Kleinbort and taped & edited by Applause Video. A mainstay on Manhattan cable-TV, the show spotlights a wide variety of well-known entertainers and newcomers lighting up the cabaret, theater and comedy worlds.

Jamie DeRoy has won eight MAC Awards, four Back Stage Bistro Awards, ten Telly Awards and CaB Magazine's Lifetime Achievement Award for her extensive work on both stage and screen. Jamie has appeared onstage with Joan Rivers and has headlined at many of New York's major clubs. She has produced eight CDs in the Jamie DeRoy & friends series on the Harbinger and PS Classics labels. This season her theatre producing credits include the Broadway productions of: Anton Chekov's The Seagull, Arthur Miller's All My Sons, David Mamet's Speed the Plow and this spring, Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit, Michael Jacobs' Impressionism, and Alan Ayckbourn's Norman Conquests.

Recent credits include: London's Marguerite and Make Me a Song as well as the Broadway productions of George Steven Jr.'s Thurgood, Clifford Odets's The Country Girl, David Mamet's November, Jay Johnson: The Two and Only, Chita Rivera: The Dancer's Life, and Say Goodnight Gracie.

Her Off-Broadway credits feature: Chasing Manet, Buffalo Gal, Beebo Brinker Chronicles, Make Me A Song: The Music of William Finn, Dividing The Estate (Outer Critics Circle Award), Opus, Spalding Gray: Stories Left To Tell, Exits and Entrances, Adrift in Macao, Indian Blood (Outer Critics Circle Award), Dedication or The Stuff of Dreams, and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged). Her TV and film producing credits include the Emmy-nominated "The Biggest Little Operas in Town" for CityArts/ Channel 13 and Rick McKay's documentary Broadway: The Golden Age. Her 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, Jamie appeared with Rene Auberjonois in The Threepenny Opera, as well as in The Drunkard with musical direction by Barry Manilow.