Jeff Harnar

Jeff Harnar is an American cabaret singer and recording artist.

Appearances
CARNEGIE HALL: Carnegie Hall appearances include the Cole Porter Centennial (1991) and Noël Coward Centennial (1998).

Carnegie Weill Recital Hall appearances include "A Talent To Amuse", a Noël Coward Celebration Hosted by Sheridan Morley (1992); The Mabel Mercer Foundation's celebrations of Cole Porter (2015) and Jimmy Van Heusen (2017) and a sold-out solo concert in 1993.

Carnegie Zankel Hall appearances include Michael Feinstein's celebration of Jule Styne (2012).

TELEVISION: "The 1959 Broadway Songbook" (PBS); "Remember: Songs of the Holidays" with KT Sullivan (PBS); as the Singing Narrator of "Gershwin on Ice" starring Dorothy Hamill (A&E); CBS This Morning (Rodgers & Hammerstein Centennial) and "American Songbook Live from NJPAC: Stephen Sondheim" with KT Sullivan (PBS)

SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS "I Got Rhythm: Mickey & Judy's Hollywood" co-starring Shauna Hicks with The San Diego, Raleigh North Carolina, Spokane, Des Moines, Albany, Middletown Ohio Symphony Orchestras and at New York's Town Hall with the Barry Levitt Orchestra.

MAJOR CABARET ENGAGEMENTS: NEW YORK: The historic Oak Room at The Algonquin Hotel; Feinstein's/54 Below; Feinstein's at The Regency, The Ballroom; The Firebird Cafe, The Russian Tea Room, and The Laurie Beechman Theater.

LOS ANGELES: The Cinegrill at The Hollywood Roosevelt

SAN FRANCISCO: The Plush Room at The York Hotel CHICAGO: Talouse, Davenport's, The Mayfair Hotel

FLORIDA: The Colony Hotel in Palm Beach, The Delray Beach Playhouse, Mizner Cultural Park in Boca Raton, The Asolo Repertory Theater in Sarasota

OFF-BROADWAY "The 1959 Broadway Songbook" 59e59 Theatres

FILM: The Nightclub Singer in "A Portrait if James Dean" (2012, Iconoclast) PERFORMING ARTS CENTERS: The Kravis (Palm Beach FL); NJPAC (New Jersey); Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center (NY), The Bay Street Playhouse (Sag Harbor, NY), The Signature Theater (Arlington VA); The Arts Garage (Delray Beach, FL); The Crest Theater (Delray Beach, FL); BlackRock Center For the Arts (Germantown, MD)

TOURING: As the Singing Narrator of "Gershwin on Ice" starring Dorothy Hamill: The Orpheum Theater in Memphis, The Hilton Atlantic City; and Foxwoods Resort Casino (1998)

OPENING ACT: For the McGuire Sisters at The Carousel Dinner Theater Akron, OH (1991) For Julie Wilson (1996), Vivian Reed (2005) and Barbara Carroll (2008) at Guild Hall in East Hampton, NY

CRUISE LINES: Include Regent, Oceania, Cunard, Crystal, Holland America, Celebrity, Norwegian, Royal Caribbean and Royal Viking

Awards
Jeff Harnar is a multi-Award-winning performer and Director

Performer
2012 THE NOEL COWARD FOUNDATION AWARD

2015 THE DONALD F. SMITH AWARD

2022 NATIONAL HONOREE OF THE CHICAGO CABARET PROFESSIONALS

2022 THE MABEL MERCER FOUNDATION’S MABEL MERCER AWARD

BROADWAY WORLD CABARET AWARD
Best Male Vocalist 2014

Best Male Vocalist 2015

Best Male Vocalist 2017

Best Vocalist 2022

MANHATTAN ASSOCIATION OF CABARET AWARD (MAC AWARD)
Best Male Vocalist 1988

Best Male Vocalist 1990

Outstanding Revue 2016 - "Another Hundred People" with KT Sullivan

Major Male Artist 2018

Major Male Artist 2020

Major Recording 2023 "I Know Things Now: My Life in Sondheim's Words"

Celebrity Artist 2023

Major Recording 2024 "A Collective Cy: Jeff Harnar Sings Cy Coleman"

BISTRO AWARD
Best Newcomer 1987

Outstanding Male Vocalist 1988

Outstanding Show 1989 - "Carried Away: Jeff Harnar sings Comden & Green"

Outstanding Show 2006 - "A Collective Cy"

Outstanding Revue 2016 - "Another Hundred People" with KT Sullivan

BROADWAY WORLD CABARET AWARD
Best Director 2018

MANHATTAN ASSOCIATION OF CABARET AWARD (MAC AWARD)
Best Director 2017

Best Director 2018

Best Director 2024

BISTRO AWARD
Outstanding Director 2017

Directing
Major Directing projects include:

TOVAH FELDSHUH:

"Tovah is Leona!"

Feinstein's 54 Below

The Guild Hall (East Hampton NY)

Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center (NY)

MAC Award Celebrity Artist nomination (Tovah Feldshuh)

MAC Award Best Director

Broadway World Award Best Director

"Aging is Optional"

Feinstein's 54 Below

Feinstein's at The Niko (San Francisco)

The Razz Room (Philadelphia PA)

RITA GARDNER:

"Much More: A Tom Jones & Harvey Schmidt Songbook"

The Laurie Beechman Theater

MAC Award Best Director

DAWN DEROW

"My Ship: Songs from 1941"

The Laurie Beechman Theater

The Cape May Playhouse

The Crown & Anchor (Provincetown MA)

MAC Award Female Vocalist Dawn Derow

Bistro Award Best Director

"The House That Built Me"

The Laurie Beechman Theater

JOSEPHINE SANGES

"Come Rain or Come Shine:

Josephine Sanges sings Harold Arlen"

The Laurie Beechman Theater

Davenport's (Chicago IL)

MAC Award Female Vocalist (Josephine Sanges)

CELIA BERK:

"You Can't Rush Spring"

The Metropolitan Room

Broadway World Cabaret Award Best Show

MAC Award New York Debut (Celia Berk)

Margaret Whiting Award (Celia Berk)

"Manhattan Serenade"

The Metropolitan Room

MARGO BROWN

"Margo sings Mercer"

The Metropolitan Room

Don't Tell Mama

Broadway World Award New York Debut (Margo Brown)

ANNA BERGMAN:

"You're All The World To Me"

Feinstein's 54 Below

"You and The Night and The Music"

Feinstein's at The Regency

JUDI MARK:

"Dancing Through Life"

The Triad

The Laurie Beechman Theater

"Merely Marvelous: The Songs Of Gwen Verdon"

Don't Tell Mama

RICHARD HOLBROOK:

"Twenty Plus Three/Four In 2023/2024"

54 Below

BECCA C KIDWELL:

"Together Inside"

Don't Tell Mama

"If You Hadn't But You Did, songs of love, sex, and murder"

Don't Tell Mama

Club Cafe Boston

Albums

 * A Collective Cy: Jeff Harnar Sings Cy Coleman (PS Classics, 2023)
 * I Know Things Now: My Life in Sondheim's Words (PS Classics, 2022)
 * Dancing In The Dark (PS Classics, 2005)
 * Sammy Cahn: All the Way (Jerome Records, 2001)
 * Because of You: Fifties Gold (Varèse Sarabande Records,1997)
 * 1959 Broadway Songbook (Original Cast Records, 1991)