Biography
Katie Elle Jackson (formerly Reeve) is a singer, songwriter, actress and teacher with a vocal and performance versatility enabling her to work across a multitude of genres. She has performed around the world as a corporate, club, wedding and session vocalist, as a cabaret and musical theatre performer, as a singer-songwriter and has been teaching voice and performance for over a decade.
Katie is a Music Theatre Graduate of the National Institute of Dramatic Arts (NIDA) and has a Bachelor of Music in Contemporary Voice and Post Graduate Cert. of Music from The Australian Institute of Music (AIM) where she is currently studying a Masters of Music. in 2013, Katie was featured on The Voice Australia as part of Ricky Martin's team, receiving praise for her powerful voice and charismatic stage presence. She recently headlined the 2018 New Years Eve celebrations in Dubai at Festival City Mall, in front of over 100,000 people.
In 2015, Katie received critical-praise for her role as The Music Hall Singer in the Sydney Theatre Award winning production of the Australian premiere of the Broadway Musical, Violet (Blue Saint Productions/Hayes Theatre- Director- Mitchell Butel). She continued her role with the company for their Melbourne season, playing Chapel off Chapel in March 2016. Katie starred in Exclaim Theatre Company’s (Director- Brendan Hay) 2015 production of Hair (Ronny) and in Little Egypt’s Speakeasy (Shirley Slam) as part of both the Adelaide Fringe Festival and the Sydney Fringe Festival, receiving rave-reviews for her work. She has also performed at a number of festivals and events with the award-winning children’s musical The Vegetable Plot and for Wanted and Wild- a burlesque/rock cabaret.
Katie has worked as a singer for Royal Caribbean Cruises, for Woolworths’ Carols in the Domain, regularly performs at the some of the countries top venues and charity-events and is very active in Sydney’s live music scene. She has entertained guests at countless wedding’s and corporate events with bands The Katie Elle Jackson Band, Soirée , Peppermint Jam, Boogie Fever, Sydney Jazz Collective, Duke, Valley Beat Music Co, Solar Music, Suit and Tie and Kitty and the Tom Cats.
Katie is also a gifted script and songwriter, with a number of her theatrical and musical works performed by youth and community-theatre groups. She premiered her new one woman show, Neighbourhood Watch, in 2017, featuring a score of original music from her EP Songs from Apartment 54, with a critically acclaimed return season in January 2018. She is a passionate educator and has taught at a number of the countries top training institutions including the Australian Institute of Music and NIDA.
Katie is represented by Southbeat Entertainment Agency and Event Entertainers.
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