JEANNE BREI, hails from Colorado Springs, Colorado, where she spent her childhood singing and tap dancing. She graduated from Northwestern University with a journalism degree and has used it throughout her theatrical career writing and producing for the Macon (Georgia) News newspaper, Photo District News magazine, Las Vegas PBS (“Watch Your Step, Brother! The Life of Maceo Anderson” and the four-part series “Dancin’ Nevada”), VegasTV (“The Vintage Vegas Variety Show: Goin’ Retro with Jazzin’ Jeanne Brei”) and co-writing, with Dennis Griffin, the book “House Party Tonight! The Life of Legendary Saxophonist Don Hill” available on Amazon.

Jeanne has performed off-Broadway in NYC and co-starred in the national tour of “No, No Nanette” with Phil Ford and Mimi Hines. She has also performed with the American Tap Dance Orchestra at the Cotton Club in New York City, and opened for the legendary Treniers and Sweet Louie at the Moulin Rouge Casino in Las Vegas. Jeanne has sung with Dixieland bands in major U.S. cities and with the Nevada Opera Theater, the Nevada Chamber Symphony, and the Brown Bag Lunch Cabaret series for The Nevada Performing Arts Society, as well as performing with the Super Summer Theater at Spring Mountain Ranch (as Gloria in “Damn Yankees”).  She originated the role of “Christmas Carol” in Next Stage Entertainment’s workshop of “Twas: A Christmas Musical” at Cashman Field in Las Vegas.

Jeanne’s current band, The Speakeasy Swingers, won a 2011 Excellence in Entertainment Award from the Entertainment Consumers Exchange and both she and the band were inducted into the Las Vegas Entertainer’s Hall of Fame in 2013.  The Speakeasy Swingers can be seen the first Thursday of each month at the Italian American Club in Las Vegas.  They also rotate with several other swing bands for Sailor Jerry’s Swing Nights at the House of Blues at Mandalay Bay Casino and throughout Las Vegas.