Jeanne Rogers occupies a musical niche all by herself. In fact, she may have invented it. She’s a singer-songwriter and practicing psychiatrist who mixes together key elements that music and therapy have in common: storytelling, raw emotion and moments of catalyst for change.

Jeanne started singing at 6 years old and spent the next 20 years pursuing a career in musical theatre, which led her to the renowned Goodspeed Opera House, the Sundance Institute, Barrington Stage Company, and the Roundabout Theatre Company. She’s shared the stage with industry legends such as Idina Menzel, Celia Keenan-Bolger and Judy Blazer, and twice had the great pleasure of playing her dream role: Fanny Brice in “Funny Girl.” She started writing songs as a teenager.

But Jeanne had another dream born in childhood. At 10, she decided she wanted to be a psychiatrist. So, during her performing years she went to Yale University, graduating pre-med, and then left academia to pursue a career in the performing arts. She later began her medical training at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, then Columbia University and NYU.

Although her songwriting craft was largely dormant during her medical training, she became more inspired than ever by the stories and resilience of her patients and their families.

Today, she and her family live in Brooklyn, where she has a busy private practice and performs as a singer-songwriter, marrying her two unique passions into music about the human condition.