Songwriting:

Voted "Most Talented Family Member 1972", Jacqueline Levy rushed to begin writing songs a mere 15 years later. After accosting people in parking lots ("Hey! Listen to this!"), she began performing in clubs in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Tom Lehrer meets Carol Burnett. Christine Lavin without the death wish. These are just some of the phrases both her fans have used to describe Jacqueline and her original comedy songs. With clever lyrics (who else would rhyme "dipstick" with "hip chick"), and catchy tunes (once you've heard them a few hundred times), her songs satirize topics rangiing from childbirth to baseball, fiscal irresponsibility to asteroids, and the remote control to vengeful women. And as always, every song is treated with the same sincere charm and cynicism that Jacqueline's husband has come to know and put up with.

Three time winner of the Northern California Songwriters Association South Bay Open Mike "Best Song" award, four time winner of the "Best Performance" award, and a finalist in the "1999 Unsigned/Unplugged Singer/Songwriter Showcase" in the San Francisco Bay Area, Jackie says about her career "I guess those six months of guitar lessons have really paid off".

Her songs have been heard as commentaries on Marketplace Radio, a business news program, internationally syndicated by Public Radio International. Other songs have been heard as perspectives on the morning show of KQED-FM 88.5 in San Francisco, and on The Midnight Special, an excellent program of comedy, songs, and what-have-you on WFMT in Chicago and webcast.

Further Performing Arts Biography:

Jacqueline Levy is a graduate of the Players Workshop of the Second City, a school of improvisational acting in Chicago, where she excelled in making references to Star Trek and Cheetos in every skit, regardless of the assignment. She continued studying improvisational acting at The Second City Training Center, also in Chicago. Her improv skills led to her success in playing Snow White's Evil Stepmother in a production at the Children's Theatre of the Second City, followed by rave reviews when typecast as Templeton the Rat in a community theatre production of Charlotte's Web.

After moving to California in 1987, Jacqueline performed for several years with the Improv Comedy Workshop in and around San Jose, where she learned the performing mantra "It Really Doesn't Matter". This enabled her to get up and sing her first hit "Condoms In the Ladies' Room" in a coffee house after six months of guitar lessons. Thinking that continuous use might have improved her voice, she auditioned and was cast (with 30, count them -- 30! -- lines) in the musical "Bells Are Ringing" at the award-winning Foothill Music Theatre. She was especially pleased to finally play a human being, albeit a sarcastic one, rather than a witch or a rat.

And on the Personal Side:

Jacqueline grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, went to college in Chicago, graduate school (not telling in what!) in Wisconsin, and then voluntarily moved back to Chicago. Finally, she needed to thaw. She moved to sunny California, where she now lives in her half a million dollar shack with her husband and daughter.