Jeff Kready was most recently seen on Broadway in The Great Gatsby, where he understudied and performed the role of Jay Gatsby.  Jeff’s other Broadway credits include David in the 2022 Tony Award winning revival of Stephen Sondheim’s Company, stand-by for the “title” role of Michael Dorsey/Dorothy Michaels in Tootsie, Monty Navarro in A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, Tony Elliot in Billy Elliot, Sunday in the Park with George, and Les Miserables, where he was the youngest person, at age 24, to ever perform the role of Jean Valjean on Broadway.  His regional credits include Ragtime (New York City Center Encores), Sky Masterson in Guys & Dolls (Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera), Ted Hanover in Holiday Inn (Paper Mill Playhouse), Mr. Snow in Carousel (Connecticut Critics Circle Award nomination, Goodspeed Opera House), Tommy in Brigadoon (Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera), Jimmy Smith in Thoroughly Modern Millie (Paper Mill), Crumpet the elf in David Sedaris’s one-man-show Santaland Diaries (Hartford TheaterWorks), In This House (world premiere, Two River Theater), Attack of the Elvis Impersonators (Theater Row), and Tokio Confidential (Atlantic Theater Company). 

On television, Mr. Kready was featured as Bert Healy the radio announcer in “Annie Live!” on NBC, starring Harry Connick Jr.  He has also been seen on “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 Český Krumlov Music Festival (Czech Republic), the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, the Colorado Symphony, the Grand Teton Music Festival, the Long Bay Symphony, 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 was formerly an elementary school music teacher and is a graduate of Washburn University in his hometown, Topeka, KS. Jeff’s favorite roles are husband to Nikki and dad to Lena and Louise. For more information, please visit jeffkready.com and follow him on Instagram at @jk_ready.