Artemisia LeFay

Artemisia LeFay is a chanteuse and composer as well as a “cabaret resurrectionist” who specializes and delights in the European, dark, vintage, and obscure subspecies thereof. She is best known for creating and performing in GHOSTS OF WEIMAR PAST, a cabaret and revue inspired show filled with songs paying homage to the subversive and fringe communities resisting the regimes of fascism and nazism. The show received a 2021 Broadway World Cabaret Award nomination for Best Show. Her second show PHANTOMS OF THE CABARET debuted at Don't Tell Mama in 2022 and since has been performed at The Triad, The Laurie Beechman Theater and The Green Room 42. Named after her in-the-works debut album, her latest show, WASTED GIRL, has received glowing reviews for her original songs and compositions.

Her performance credits include The Actor’s Temple, Phillipstown Theater Depot, The Adelaide Fringe Festival, The Rochester Fringe Festival, Rockwood Music Hall, Don’t Tell Mama, The Triad Theater. Green Room 42, Pangea, Shanghai Mermaid, The Red Room, The Back Room, Club Cumming and Birdland Jazz Theater. International credits include performances in Canada, Italy, Turkey and Australia.

"Kabarettist Artemisia LeFay continues to cast her spell over New York's cabaret scene." -Broadway World

"Whatever LeFay is singing, her delivery is illuminated by her magnificent voice and commanding presence. She is a cabaret performer we should keep an eye on. -Stage & Cinema

"Wasted Girl skillfully delivers on an ambitious concept through LeFay’s incredible writing and unwavering performance." -Broadway World

"The music is engagingly melodic and the lyrics are literate, smart and clever—of the quality of many of the American Songbook masters." - NiteLifeExchange

"These are songs of substance, beautifully crafted both musically and lyrically. We’re talking the level of the great songwriters of the Great American Songbook. " - Theater Pizzazz

"The star of the night with her powerful and imminently versatile vocals was our naughty hostess. Her range and her ability to alter her vocal production to fit the various song styles of Spoliansky, Holländer, and Weill bode tremendous things for the future of young Artemisia LeFay, including more successful time travel to Germany of the 1920s."
-Broadway World

"With her rich, sure vocals, LeFay is a top-notch interpreter of this work."
-Theater Pizzazz

“Ms. Lefay is classically trained with a fine rich mezzo that she employs with a purity of sound true to her training... at times; and like the women of her favorite era, the purity of Lefay's mezzo power will suddenly take a sharp left turn breaking away from making beautiful sounds in order to be realistic in a very underground way; exploring the heights and depths of what her very female voice can do.”— Broadway World

"LeFay was front and center displaying her glorious, well-trained mezzo-soprano. With her rich, sure vocals, LeFay is a top-notch interpreter of this work. It suits her and her enthusiasm and attunement to these songs." -Theater Pizzazz

"Many of us who are crawling out of our pandemic isolation might be ready to dive into hedonism—in the hope that it could serve as a tonic for the underlying rumble of fear we’ve lived with for the past year. Enter Artemisia LeFay’s timely Weimar-themed show at Don’t Tell Mama, Ghosts of Weimar Past, where we have a chance to revisit 1920s Berlin with its playful and simultaneously dark sensibilities..."
—Bistro Awards

“New Yorker Artemisia LeFay has devised a show in homage to all those Weimar artists whose creativity, ethnicity, and sexual preferences offended Nazism. Together with her pianist Renée Guerrero, LeFay presents a clever, chatty show of ten songs, half of which are in German.”
— Adelaide Now