Jay Kerr & Fort Salem
JAY KERR began his professional musical career at the age of fourteen as a church organist. He worked for thirty years as a church musician, held cue cards for televisions's Captain Kangaroo, produced military and USO shows that toured Southeast Asia during the Vietnam conflict, shared the bill with Bette Midler at New York's Continental Baths, wrote children's musicals, taught in a military school, parochial schools, acting schools and universities, and served as the principal of a junior high school.
Jay founded and for six years facilitated a writers’ workshop for the Princeton University Triangle Club. He has been musical director of veterans Charlotte Rae and Frank Gorshin in the original Broadway production of the Hannukah musical, The Odd Potato and has written children’s musicals for Broadway and television
For years as a vocal instructor working in his own midtown Manhattan studio, he is now Artistic Director at Fort Salem Theater, in Salem, NY, where he continues to consult with producers and educators and compose and perform in new projects.
Jay founded and for six years facilitated a writers’ workshop for the Princeton University Triangle Club. He has been musical director of veterans Charlotte Rae and Frank Gorshin in the original Broadway production of the Hannukah musical, The Odd Potato and has written children’s musicals for Broadway and television
For years as a vocal instructor working in his own midtown Manhattan studio, he is now Artistic Director at Fort Salem Theater, in Salem, NY, where he continues to consult with producers and educators and compose and perform in new projects.