Artemisia LeFay

Artemisia LeFay, cabaret resurrectionist, chanteuse and composer based in New York City was raised in the audition and dressing rooms of opera productions by her classical musician parents. She has been singled out as a unique and authentic interpreter of music from the Weimar Era. Her shows "Ghosts of Weimar Past", "Phantoms of the Cabaret", "Wasted Girl" and her newest one "It's All a Swindle" have been performed in some of NYC's most iconic venues: 54 Below, Birdland Jazz, The Triad Theatre, The Laurie Beechman Theatre, Don't Tell Mama, as well as the Adelaide and Rochester Fringe Festivals, all acclaimed to rave reviews with nominations for Best Show by the Broadway World Cabaret Awards. "Wasted Girl" was selected by Broadway World in 2024 as a top cabaret show alongside Patti Lupone, Bernadette Peters and Marilyn Maye. The show also established her as an important composer and songwriter of her generation, comparing her skills to the masters of The Great American Songbook.

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, Birdland Jazz Theater and 54 Below. International credits include performances in Canada, Italy, France, Turkey and Australia.

WASTED GIRL, a show of all original compositions, saw performances at The Triad Theatre in May 2024 and 54 Below in October 2025, has since has established her as an important and rising new composer and songwriter, with New York critics comparing her to the composers of the The Great American Songbook. WASTED GIRL was named a top cabaret show for 2024 by Broadway World. In 2025, she was nominated by Broadway World Cabaret Awards for Best Show (WASTED GIRL) and Best Original Song ("Phantoms of the Cabaret"). Her newest show IT'S ALL A SWINDLE (Alles Schwindel) made its 2026 debut at Don't Tell Mama and reprised this October at The Laurie Beechman Theatre.

"The Truly Original Artemisia LeFay Was No “Schwindel” at Don’t Tell Mama" - NiteLife Exchange

"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." - NiteLife Exchange

"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

"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