Jay Hanson is a singer, songwriter and musician who has been creating professionally for over twenty years. 

 

A Berklee College of Music graduate, he has worked in the recording studio with artists ranging from Snoop Dogg to Larry The Cable Guy and clients such as National Public Radio, ESPN and ABC's "Grey's Anatomy."  Jay has shared performances with music notables such as Hootie & the Blowfish, Cake, Taylor Dayne, David Lee Roth and the Jayhawks. He has also lent his voice-over, singing and script supervising talents to a number of DIC Entertainment's cartoon series, including "Strawberry Shortcake", "DinoSquad" and "Horseland."  Jay also created original music and sound effects for the Omaha Playhouse productions of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, I Am My Own Wife and Grounded, for which he won an Omaha Entertainment & Arts Award for Best Sound Design of a Play.     

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The bands Jay has performed with include The Tykes, The Wild Turkeys, Hopeless Romeos, Gauge, Oil, The Omaha Project, Me2, The Personics, Gary Powers 4, Cousin Katie & The Flakey Biscuits and Lisa Lisa & the Acoustic Jam.  As a resident artist, Jay was a performer, musician and sound designer for Rave On Productions for thirteen years, where he appeared in Yesterday & Today: the Interactive Beatles Experience, Rock Legends, and Rave On! The Buddy Holly Experience. He was also the co-host of "Looking Through The Glass Onion", a Beatles song podcast, available on Apple Podcasts.

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Jay's other performance credits include starring as "Willy Wonka" in Willy Wonka and as "Guy" in the Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova musical Once, for which he won the Mary Peckham Award for Best Actor in a Musical.