Biography
Cabaret
Jason Henderson is currently performing Getting To Noël You at the storied New York cabaret institution Don’t Tell Mama in New York City.
Created with Musical Director Christopher Denny and Director Barry Kleinbort, the show has been critically acclaimed.
“…one of Coward’s top interpreters…” raved BistroAward.com as it proclaimed “…the ascendance of a new and hopefully lasting star in the cabaret firmament.”
Cabaret Scenes agreed: “It’s a happy surprise in cabaret when an artist and a saluted composer blend together so well that the pairing seems inevitable.”
His 2018 New York Cabaret debut was enthusiastically greeted by full-houses and rave reviews.
“Henderson obviously belongs on the Don’t Tell Mama list of performers who arrived there as unknowns and left as artists.”
– TheatrePizzaz.com
Jason was nominated Most Promising Emerging Artist at the 2016 New Zealand Fringe Festival where he performed I think you’ll like this… and debuted Cake Tea & Courtship: Songs of the 1920’s and There’s Nothing on TV which he also toured to the 2016 Dunedin Fringe Festival.
With famed New Zealand pianist Terence Dennis, he performed Coward in the Office at Arts Festival Dunedin, 2016
In 2015 Jason made his Cabaret debut in Dunedin, New Zealand with his one-man show I think you’ll like this… The Star reviewed: “Henderson was likeable indeed in an original show filled with self-deprecating humour and music from shows, films and even oratorio.”
Jason is proud to be a graduate of the Neighborhood Playhouse (class of ’23). He holds a Master of Music (awarded with distinction) in Contemporary Voice – University of Otago, is a former member of the New Zealand Opera Chorus (2012-2016), and an alumna of five New Zealand Singing Schools, the St. Louis Cabaret Conference and The Circle in the Square Theatre School summer workshop.
Jason is based in New York City.
Review quotes
“It’s a happy surprise in cabaret when an artist and a saluted composer blend together so well that the pairing seems inevitable.”
Bart Greenberg – Cabaret Scenes (2023)
“Jason’s charming delivery, comic sensibility and vocal prowess had all of us in thrall.”
Jacqueline Parker – Times Square Chronicles (2023)
Alix Cohen – WomanAroundTown.com (NYC, 2018)
“His voice is appealing, humor engaging. The artist can deliver patter with low key brio. A mix of sophistication and ingenuousness emerges fresh.”
“Enunciation is nonchalantly pristine.”
Alix Cohen – WomanAboutTown.com (NYC)
“Henderson was likeable indeed…” “Bravo.”
Brenda Harwood – The Star, Dunedin NZ
“…there is something in Jason Henderson; and that is one wonderful voice.“
Joana Simmons – TheatreView (NZ)
“Noel Coward is notoriously difficult to do justice. Young New Zealander Jason Henderson, however, goes far in representing the artist’s wry, salty, deadpan attitude.”
Alix Cohen – WomanAboutTown.com (NYC)
“The singer has his own dry wit and a way with a punch line. His comic timing is sharp, and his script has some truly funny lines.”
Mark Dundas Wood – BistroAwards.com (NYC)
“The familiar Coward brand of speak-singing comes naturally to him, though he doesn’t go overboard with it.”
Mark Dundas Wood – BistroAwards.com (NYC)
“Seriously though, there is something unique Jason Henderson can bring to the theatre. It has to do with the writing and devising of the material as well as a superb stage presence. It’s hard to capture this ‘something’ in words.”
Michael Gilchrist – TheatreView (NZ)
“This performer’s strength is his ability to communicate with the audience, to convey the songs and the story – and, of course, to devise a thoroughly charming show.”
Michael Gilchrist – TheatreView (NZ)
“Cake, Tea & Courtship is an endearing dance of romance through the music of the ‘Roaring Twenties’.”
Jo Hodgson – TheatreView (NZ)
“…his mellifluous voice … which is totally suited to this music…”
Graduate of the Neighborhood Playhouse
Jason is proud to be a recent graduate of The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre, and a member of the extraodinary Class of ’23.
Concluding two-years of full-time acting study in New York City, Jason performed the role of Argan in Molièr’s The Imaginary Invalid on stage at the Neighborhood Playhouse.
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