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Jessica Molaskey is a veteran of
a dozen Broadway shows: A Man of No Importance at
Lincoln Center written by Terrance McNally, Lynn Ahrens and
Stephen Flaherty, Parade (directed by Hal Prince),
Dream, Tommy, Crazy For You,
Les Miserables, City of Angels,
Chess, Cats and Oklahoma!
and she has performed off Broadway and regionally in dozens of
productions.
Jessica has premiered music written by Ricky Ian Gordon, Adam
Guettel, Jason Robert Brown, Michael John LaChiusa, and Stephen
Sondheim and John Bucchino. She has written songs for almost a
dozen recordings including “Greed”, part of a commission for
Audra McDonald’s Seven Deadly Sins at Carnegie Hall and Cradle
and all which will be part of Ms. McDonalds newest c.d. coming
out in the fall.
Along with her husband
John
Pizzarelli, Jessica hosts a weekly national radio program
called
Radio
Deluxe.
Other recordings include Fine and Dandy, Myths And Hymns,
Parade, Songs For a New World, Weird Romance, Chess, Oklahoma!,
Windflowers: The Music of Jerome Moross, Fred Hersch’s CD Two
Hands, Ten Voices, It's only Life. The songs of John Bucchino
and the upcoming cast album of Dream True by Tina Landau and
Ricky Ian Gordon.
Jessica grew up in Wolcott, Connecticut. She is married to jazz guitarist John Pizzarelli, and they have a daughter, Madeleine.
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