Jeff Kready
“Five Points” Performer
Jeff Kready was most recently on Broadway as David in Company, where he played the on-stage husband to his-real life wife, Nikki Renée Daniels. Before that he was seen standing by for the “title” role of Michael Dorsey/Dorothy Michaels in Tootsie. Other Broadway credits: Monty Navarro in A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, Tony Elliot in Billy Elliot the Musical, Sunday in the Park with George, and Les Misérables (Jean Valjean understudy). Regional credits include: Ted Hanover in Holiday Inn (Paper Mill Playhouse), Tommy in Brigadoon (Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera), Mr. Snow in Carousel (Goodspeed Opera House), Jimmy Smith in Thoroughly Modern Millie (Paper Mill), Crumpet the elf in David Sedaris’s one-man-show Santaland Diaries (Hartford TheaterWorks), and In This House (world premiere, Two River Theater). On television, Mr. Kready was featured as Bert Healy the radio announcer in “Annie Live!” on NBC, starring Harry Connick Jr. Other TV: “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” (Amazon), “The Code” (CBS), “The Good Fight” (CBS), “Elementary” (recurring, CBS), and “Boardwalk Empire” (HBO). He has performed as guest soloist with the Allentown Symphony, the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, the Colorado Symphony, the Grand Teton Music Festival, the Maui Pops Orchestra, the Omaha Symphony, the Seattle Chamber Music Society, the St. Louis Symphony, the Topeka Symphony, and can be heard on the album “The Broadway Tenors” with the UK’s National Symphony Orchestra (Jay Records). He is a former elementary school music teacher and graduate of Washburn University. Favorite roles of all are husband to Nikki and dad to Lena (9) and Louise (5).