Jessica Hendy

Jessica Hendy is a critically acclaimed actress, writer and singer. She's long been known as one of the best belters on Broadway. She earned a GRAMMY® Nomination for her work on the Sondheim Unplugged Vol 3 album in 2023. She wrote and starred in the Off-Broadway musical, Walking With Bubbles, in which she was nominated for a Drama Desk Award, and won the Off-Broadway Alliance award. Walking With Bubbles is based on Ms Hendy’s life and was a critical success in New York City. The cast album is available on all streaming platforms. Ms. Hendy made her Broadway debut as Grizabella in the original Broadway production of Cats at the Winter Garden Theatre. She is the only member of that production to have also been cast in the Broadway revival at the Neil Simon Theatre playing the same role. Other
Broadway credits include Aida (Amneris), and Amour. She made her Radio City Music Hall debut in The New York Spring Spectacular alongside the world-famous Rockettes. She toured nationally with Cats (Grizabella), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Narrator), and in concert with composer Stephen Schwartz, singing “Defying Gravity” from Wicked. Her one-woman cabaret, A Life To Call Your Own received rave reviews in the New York press, and she received a Bistro Award for the review Get Your Tickets Now at Don’t Tell Mama’s cabaret. She played Diana Goodman in the regional premiere of Next To Normal at Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati,
where she earned an Acclaim Award. Other regional theatre credits include Mamma Mia (Donna) at Connecticut Rep, directed by Terrence Mann. North Shore Music Theatre's Miss Saigon (Ellen), and the Helen Hayes Performing Arts Center production of Songs for a New World with Jason Robert Brown. A regular guest singer at Feinstein’s 54 Below, housed in New York’s legendary Studio 54, Ms. Hendy continues to appear in concert with Symphony Orchestras across North America. Ms. Hendy attended the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and lives in New York City. www.JessicaHendy.com @jesshendy