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Jeanine Tesori was born on 10 November, 1961 in Port Washington, New York, United States, is an American composer and musical arranger (born 1961). Discover Jeanine Tesori's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 62 years old?

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Occupation Composer, Musical Arranger
Age 62 years old
Zodiac Sign Scorpio
Born 10 November 1961
Birthday 10 November
Birthplace Port Washington, New York, United States
Nationality United States

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1961

Jeanine Tesori, known earlier in her career as Jeanine Levenson, (born November 10, 1961) is an American composer and musical arranger best known for her work in the theater.

She is the most prolific and honored female theatrical composer in history, with five Broadway musicals and six Tony Award nominations.

1995

Tesori made her Broadway debut when she arranged the dance music for the 1995 revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.

1997

In 1997 she composed the score for the Off-Broadway musical Violet, for which she won an Obie Award, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Musical, and the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Musical, and arranged the music for the Johnny Mercer revue Dream, which she repeated with the 1998 revival of The Sound of Music and the 1999 revue Swing! She also served as associate conductor for the Broadway productions of The Secret Garden and The Who's Tommy.

1999

She won the 1999 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music in a Play for Nicholas Hytner's production of Twelfth Night at Lincoln Center, the 2004 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music for Caroline, or Change, the 2015 Tony Award for Best Original Score for Fun Home (shared with Lisa Kron), making them the first female writing team to win that award, and the 2023 Tony Award for Best Original Score for Kimberly Akimbo (shared with David Lindsay-Abaire).

She was named a Pulitzer Prize for Drama finalist twice for Fun Home and Soft Power.

Her major works include Kimberly Akimbo; Fun Home; Caroline, or Change; Shrek The Musical; Thoroughly Modern Millie; and Violet.

Tesori saw her first Off-Broadway production, Godspell at the Promenade, when she was fourteen.

She said of the experience that she felt the sense of "I'm someplace where there's something happening, and I don't want to be anywhere else."

She attended Paul D. Schreiber High School in Port Washington, New York.

She is a graduate of Barnard College of Columbia University, where she initially was pre-med but changed her major to music.

2000

In 2000, Tesori joined forces with lyricist Dick Scanlan to write eleven new songs for a stage adaptation of Thoroughly Modern Millie.

2002

A successful run at the La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego resulted in a transfer to Broadway in 2002, and Tesori was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Original Score and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music.

Tesori has collaborated with Tony Kushner four times.

2004

In 2004 she supplied music for the sung-through musical Caroline, or Change, which garnered her a third Tony nomination for Best Original Score.

2006

In 2006 she wrote incidental music for Kushner's new translation of Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children, which was produced as part of the 2006 Shakespeare in the Park season staged at the Delacorte Theater by The Public Theater.

2008

Tesori wrote the music for Shrek The Musical, which opened on Broadway in 2008 and for which she earned both Tony and Drama Desk Award nominations for her music.

2009

It was previously developed during the 2009 Ojai Playwrights Conference.

2011

In the summer of 2011, their opera A Blizzard on Marblehead Neck premiered at Glimmerglass.

In 2011, she wrote the music to Fun Home with a book and lyrics by Lisa Kron, a musical based on the memoir by Alison Bechdel.

The show was overseen by Philip Himberg while being workshopped at the Sundance Institute's 2011 Theatre Lab at White Oaks Lab in Yulee, Florida.

2013

Fun Home opened Off-Broadway at The Public Theater on October 17, 2013, and sold out through November 4, 2013, with numerous extensions until it closed there on January 12, 2014.

The July 2013 season included The Cradle Will Rock, I'm Getting My Act Together and Taking It on the Road, and Violet.

Tesori's opera The Lion, The Unicorn, and Me premiered with the Washington National Opera at the Kennedy Center in December 2013.

The libretto is by J. D. McClatchy, based on the children's book by Jeanette Winterson and was directed by Francesca Zambello.

2014

Here, it also won the 2014 Obie Award for Musical Theatre.

The musical was named a 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Drama finalist.

Tesori was the artistic director of a concert series of Off-Broadway musicals, "Encores! Off-Center".

2015

Following the successful Off-Broadway run, the show transferred to Broadway at Circle in the Square Theatre, with previews beginning on March 27, 2015, and an official opening on April 19, 2015.

Tesori and Kron won Tony Awards for Best Musical and Best Original Score for Fun Home, marking the first time an all-female composing team won either category.

It was also in this role that Tesori recruited Jake Gyllenhaal to play Seymour in the 2015 Encores!

production of Little Shop of Horrors.

2016

The English version of three songs in the 2016 Tokyo DisneySea stage show Out of Shadowland were written by Tesori.

They were sung in Japanese by pop singer Angela Aki.

2018

With book and lyrics by David Henry Hwang, Tesori's new musical Soft Power began performances at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles in May 2018 and at San Francisco's Curran Theatre in June.

2019

In 2019, Tesori was credited as voice coach on the new Steven Spielberg film of West Side Story for which Kushner wrote the screenplay based largely on the original stage musical.

The musical opened Off-Broadway at the Public Theater on September 14, 2019, directed by Leigh Silverman.

2020

Filmed over two months in and around New York City, the film saw its 2020 release rescheduled to December 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Tesori has composed music for the films Nights in Rodanthe, The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond, The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning, Shrek the Third, Mulan II, and The Emperor's New Groove 2: Kronk's New Groove.

The musical was named a 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Drama finalist.