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Jacquelyn Brown is a graduate of the Newcastle Conservatorium, having completed a Bachelor of Music in Voice and an Associate Diploma with Trinity College London singing exams. Jacquelyn has a background in Musical Theatre, and has appeared in many musicals including Songs for a New World, Trouble in Tahiti, Buskers and Angels and Les Miserables. She has performed the roles of Kate and Edith in The Pirates of Penzance and Yonah in Children of Eden (and in both she was nominated for a CONDA), Brenda in The Pyjama Game, Julie Jordan in Carousel, Grace in Working, Mad Margaret in Ruddigore, Chiffon in Little Shop of Horrors, Rose Alverez inBye Bye Birdie, Maureen in Rent and Ellen in Miss Saigon. A highlight in her career was performing alongside Jon English in the JJK production of Blood Brothers as Linda, for which she won a CONDA for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical. Her flair for drama, has taken Jacquelyn into roles in plays such as Maggie in Dancing at Lughnasa, There Goes The Bride, Mary Warren in The Crucible, Female Transport, Stringers Last Stand and as the eldest sister Meg in Little Women. In 2009, Jacquelyn began to branch out into classical music and appeared as the third lady in Newcastle Festival Opera’s award-winning production of The Magic Flute. Since then she has sung the title role in Carmen, the alto solo in Handel’s Messiah with Newcastle University Choir, and in many concerts with NFO including the Amelia Farrugia concert in May 2011. This concert marks Jacquelyn’s second performance in Candide. She first appeared as Cunegonde’s mother the Baroness in 2003 at the Australian Institute of Music.
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