Jesse Webb

Jesse was born and raised in Baton Rouge, where he studied classical singing, dancing and acting at LSU. In Baton Rouge he performed with the Baton Rouge Little Theatre, Aubin Lane Dinner Theatre, LSU Theatre and the Baton Rouge Ballet Theatre. 

After a year as a solo singer and dancer on the exclusive Royal Viking Cruise ships, he moved to New York, where he performed in Evita, A Chorus Line and La Chaim. Jesse’s European career started a few years later in Amsterdam, where he sang on many national radio shows and appeared several times on national TV as a singer and dancer. 

After choreographing Stepping Out there, he moved to Vienna, Austria where he performed leading roles in Cats, Les Miserablés, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Romeo and Juliet, choreographed shows, including Into the Woods, taught at the Max Rheinhard Seminar, and directed several internationally acclaimed musicals and theater pieces. He also sang the leads in several world-renowned theaters in Austria, including the Opera House in Graz and the Landestheaters in Innsbruck and Salzburg. 

In 1991, after the Velvet Revolution in Prague, he co-founded Prague’s first English-speaking theater company (Artists for Prague) where he produced, directed, choreographed and performed. Finally, in Hamburg he played Chagall in Dance of the Vampires (directed by Roman Polanski). In 2005, he took a break from the stage and started college in Hamburg for his degree in German Sign Language Interpreting. For the last 5 years he has been working with world-class choreographer John Neumeier and his company, the Hamburg Ballet, as well as other top stars of the international ballet scene as a physio-therapist. Now, after officially “coming out of retirement”, he plans to return to the stage as a singer, choreographer and director.