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“I’m a decent-enough play-by-ear piano player. Valerie is clearly the star of our act! She has a take-no-prisoners voice, an electric stage presence, a dynamic and totally entrancing performance style. If you love, miss, and long for all those wonderful songs from the golden age of Jazz and Cabaret Age, just one listen will start you reminiscin’.”
--Stephen Kravette

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Valerie Fuchs Kravette was born in Frankfurt, Germany, and grew up in Washington, DC and Central Florida. She holds a B.A. in Cinema Studies from the American University, where she played female lead in Pal Joey, You Can’t Take It With You, Fiddler on the Roof and The Fantasticks. She received AU’s Department of Performing Arts Best Actress Award for her portrayal of Kate in The Taming of the Shrew. In the Washington area, she studied voice with Susan Hight Denny, a famous Broadway musical actress, and starred in Cole at the Chevy Chase Players and A Little Night Music.

Valerie was a year-round resident of Nantucket, MA for 12 years and became a large talent on a small island. She enthralled audiences with top billing in numerous Theatre Workshop productions, including Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Dining Room, Portia’s Legacy, The Bad Seed, A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking, Come Back to the 5 and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, All My Sons, Les Liaisons Dangereaux, Lettice and Lovage, and Jacques Brel is Alive and Well. Her TWN directing credits include Talking With…, Tomfoolery, The Skin of Our Teeth, Burgers, Fries and Shakespeare, and A Richard Rodgers Cabaret. Her Actors Theatre of Nantucket credits include leading roles in I Oughta Be in Pictures, Bedroom Farce, Deathtrap, Lost in Yonkers and A Kurt Weill Cabaret.

She created and received high critical acclaim for her performances in two one-woman shows: Cheerful Little Earful, an evening of songs from the 20s, 30s, and 40s. And Lost in the Stars, a dramatic tribute to the music of Kurt Weill. Most recently she appeared as Viola in Twelfth Night and as Elizabeth Proctor in The Crucible for the Cohasset Dramatic Club.

As a cabaret and jazz singer, she was featured in numerous benefits on Nantucket and in the Boston area. With her jazz ensemble, the B Sharps, she performed at Nantucket’s Crossrip Coffee House and at Children’s Beach on an ongoing basis for Nantucket Parks and Recreation. With her husband, composer Stephen Kravette, she has performed in a variety of festivals and venues.

One-Woman Kurt Weill Show

A Cheerful Little Earful

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“I’m a decent-enough play-by-ear piano player. Valerie is clearly the star of our act! She has a take-no-prisoners voice, an electric stage presence, a dynamic and totally entrancing performance style. If you love, miss, and long for all those wonderful songs from the golden age of Jazz and Cabaret Age, just one listen will start you reminiscin’.” --Stephen Kravette Valerie Fuchs Kravette was born in Frankfurt, Germany, and grew up in Washington, DC and Central Florida. She holds a B.A. in Cinema Studies from the American University, where she played female lead in Pal Joey, You Can’t Take It With You, Fiddler on the Roof and The Fantasticks. She received AU’s Department of Performing Arts Best Actress Award for her portrayal of Kate in The Taming of the Shrew. In the Washington area, she studied voice with Susan Hight Denny, a famous Broadway musical actress, and starred in Cole at the Chevy Chase Players and A Little Night Music. Valerie was a year-round resident of Nantucket, MA for 12 years and became a large talent on a small island. She enthralled audiences with top billing in numerous Theatre Workshop productions, including Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Dining Room, Portia’s Legacy, The Bad Seed, A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking, Come Back to the 5 and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, All My Sons, Les Liaisons Dangereaux, Lettice and Lovage, and Jacques Brel is Alive and Well. Her TWN directing credits include Talking With…, Tomfoolery, The Skin of Our Teeth, Burgers, Fries and Shakespeare, and A Richard Rodgers Cabaret. Her Actors Theatre of Nantucket credits include leading roles in I Oughta Be in Pictures, Bedroom Farce, Deathtrap, Lost in Yonkers and A Kurt Weill Cabaret. She created and received high critical acclaim for her performances in two one-woman shows: Cheerful Little Earful, an evening of songs from the 20s, 30s, and 40s. And Lost in the Stars, a dramatic tribute to the music of Kurt Weill. Most recently she appeared as Viola in Twelfth Night and as Elizabeth Proctor in The Crucible for the Cohasset Dramatic Club. As a cabaret and jazz singer, she was featured in numerous benefits on Nantucket and in the Boston area. With her jazz ensemble, the B Sharps, she performed at Nantucket’s Crossrip Coffee House and at Children’s Beach on an ongoing basis for Nantucket Parks and Recreation. With her husband, composer Stephen Kravette, she has performed in a variety of festivals and venues.