About JodyJody Mullen is a soprano from New Jersey, but not the kind who has turned to a life of crime ... yet.
In Cabaret Scenes, Bart Greenberg writes: "Jody Mullen possesses a beautifully controlled soprano that recalls the glory days of Broadway ingénues such as Barbara Cook and Florence Henderson, and she gravitates toward the same musical catalogue. With her lovely appearance and warm and slightly wicked personality, she seems born to play a Rodgers and Hammerstein heroine." With repertoire that ranges from classical, opera, oratorio, and musical theater to (her personal favorites!) traditional pop, jazz standards, and cabaret, Jody has appeared as a professional solo artist and entertainer in Prudential Hall at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (Newark), the Gramercy Theater/Live Nation (Manhattan), the West End Cabaret (Manhattan), 440 Gallery (Park Slope), 180 Maiden Lane (Manhattan), the Westmount Country Club (Woodland Park, NJ), St. Paul's Chapel at Columbia University, and many others. She has performed several solo cabarets at the beautiful new state-of-the-art Sieminski Theater in Basking Ridge, where she is pleased to serve on the board of advisors. In collaboration with renowned cabaret vocalist Jennifer Blades and pianist Diane Kinsley, Jody appeared in Love Me As I Am, a new duet show centering on love, loss, and life as women, at Don't Tell Mama in Manhattan in 2018. With a set list ranging from beloved jazz standards to ballads by Green Day and Stephen Schwartz, the show received its second performance at the Cabaret at Germano's in Baltimore in 2019 and its third at Live Arts Maryland in Annapolis in 2023 as the debut cabaret in that venue. Additionally, Jody continues to perform her first one-woman cabaret, Love Letters from Jersey, in venues across the state. Directed by Lennie Watts and premiered at Don't Tell Mama in 2015, Love Letters is a celebration of the Garden State's most iconic musicians, from Frank and Nancy Sinatra and Sarah Vaughan to Bruce Springsteen, Whitney Houston, Laura Benanti, and Jerome Kern. Her second cabaret, A Thing Called Hope, a tribute to the beauty of the Great American Songbook, debuted in the same venue in 2017 to critical acclaim. An active church musician since 2008, Jody currently serves as a cantor, soloist, and soprano section leader at Corpus Christi Roman Catholic Church in Chatham, NJ. She was employed as a soprano soloist and section leader at Grace Church Brooklyn Heights from 2008-2020 and has also sung at St. John's Lutheran Church (Summit, NJ), St. James Church (Basking Ridge, NJ), and All Saints' Episcopal Church (Millington, NJ), among numerous others. Additionally, she is pleased to work with Music for All Seasons in NJ, performing in both public and private events since 2014. She is an alumna of dell'Arte Opera Ensemble, where she sang the roles of Papagena and Erste Knabe in Die Zauberflöte, among others. Jody graduated with high honors from Barnard College, Columbia University, where she won the LeFrak Prize in Music for her senior recital of American Songbook literature. NJ Mom named her a "Mom-preneur of the Year" in 2016. She currently lives in (where else?) New Jersey with her family. |
Photo: Sandi Hill
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