Jaylee Mead
By Michael & Laura Clark • Sep 15th, 2012 • Category: NewsJaylee Mead passed away this week. While I never met her, all DC area theater-lovers have been impacted by her generosity and love of theater. Here are three clips of her performing at NASA Goddard’s MAD Theater:
- Jaylee Mead as Berthe in Pippin, performing “Just No Time at All” on November 19, 1993.
- Jaylee Mead and Linda Smith in Mame, performing “Bosom Buddies” on November 20, 1987. Orchestra directed by Gilbert Mead.
- Jaylee Mead singing “There Once Was a Man” (The Pajama Game) with Lou Walter, at an open mic night, on the set of South Pacific in 1974; Gil Mead at the piano.
- Washington Post: Jaylee Mead dies: NASA astronomer was a cultural benefactor in D.C.
- DC Theatre Scene: Well-loved theatre philanthopist Jaylee Mead has died
- Washington Post: Jaylee Mead: A life lived offstage, devoted to what was on it
- TheatreWashington: Jaylee Montague Mead — Arts Supporter and Astronomer
- Maryland Theater Guide: Theatre News: Jaylee Mead, philanthropist of Washington theatre, passes
- DC Metro Theater Arts: Theatre Benefactor and Supporter Dr. Jaylee Mead Dies
- WAMU: Remembering D.C. Theater Icon Jaylee Mead
- Washingtonian: An Appreciation of the Late Jaylee Mead (registration required)
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There cannot be enough good things said about Jaylee Mead, who was so very smart, generous, and delightful to be with. She was one of my husband’s colleagues at Goddard/NASA and one who encouraged our participation in MAD there. In ways small and large, Jaylee and Gil brought us into the greater theater community in Washington, DC. On a very personal level, we mourn her passing.