Jacqueline Kroschell (March 3, 1942-October 31, 2021) was a New York City singer and actress.
She graduated from Bennington College in 1958 and studied at the Manhattan School of Music.
Jacqueline was elected to The Lambs in 1989 as a Theatrical member. She was a member of Actors Equity Association, the Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, and the American Guild of Variety Artists.
Jacqueline was the founder and artistic director of Cameo Productions, Ltd., an award-winning company of “professional singers with similar credits dedicated to communicating memorable melodies and intelligible lyrics.”
Jacqueline specialized in researching and bringing historic subjects to life through their contemporary songs in her ongoing project, L.I.G.H.T.S.—Living History Through Song. She also regularly created and performed special commemorative programs. She created, produced, and directed a touring production of Abraham Lincoln’s music; Amahl and the Night Visitors; Stephen Foster and Songs of the Civil War; Gilbert and Sullivan by the Carte; Centennial Classics (songs of the Theodore Roosevelt era), and a variety of other shows for public, private, and corporate audiences.
Her revival of The Archers (circa 1796) by William Dunlap and Benjamin Carr, restored with colleague and renowned musicologist Gordon Myers, received the George Washington Medal of Honor from the Freedoms Foundation in 1991.
Jacqueline founded the annual Voices of Summer Festival in Northwest New Jersey. She served the New Jersey Teen Arts Festivals and the New Jersey State Festival as a critic and workshop master class leader in vocal performance, drama and musical theatre. She was honored as an Artist in Education by the Sussex County Arts & Heritage Council at a ceremony at Sussex County Community College.
As a singer, Jacqueline toured the Far East as a leading soprano with the Opera Theatre of New York. Her Broadway and off-Broadway credits include Man of La Mancha, A Christmas Carol, The Pirates of Penzance, and Tamara. She performed Gilbert and Sullivan and opera roles with New York City Opera, Light Opera of Manhattan (known as LOOM) an off-Broadway repertory theatre company that produced light operas; Lake George Opera, the Contemporary Opera of New York, and the Stratford Festival Company. She was a guest artist with more than three dozen symphony orchestras, including the Rochester and Buffalo Philharmonic, and the Baltimore, Dallas, Detroit, Denver, and Milwaukee symphonies; Canada’s Vancouver, Winnipeg, and Edmonton symphonies, and Ottawa’s National Arts Center.
Jacqueline served as “Nautical Nightingale” for the Council of American Master Mariners, and numerous other civic and nautical organizations. She also collaborated on musical jingles with Lamb Steve DePass. For many years she was a soloist at First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Flushing, Queens.
Her acting credits include Strange City (2016), Fighting Spirits (2012), and The Penny Dreadful Picture Show (2013).