Jeanine Tesori
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Productions
Swing!
[Broadway, ]
Music Arranger
Dream
[Broadway, ]
Dance Music Arranger
Violet
[Off-Broadway, ]
Associate Producer
Writing
Movies
Nights in Rodanthe
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[ ] Aspiring Composer and Lyricist #22
Awards and Nominations
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For Jeanine Tesori, looking back on her Broadway career so far is a spectral affair.
“Every time I go into the St. James Theatre, I see ghosts of me having a great time, weeping, playing the piano,” Tesori reflects, thinking back on the stretch of time in the early ’90s where she worked on three shows back-to-back at the legendary theatre. “I was the sub assistant conductor for Gypsy with Tyne Daly, and I did The Secret Garden, and then I did Tommy right after that. It’s just such an unbelievable memory for me.”
Born and raised on Long Island, Tesori began playing piano at the age of 3, one of four artistically inclined sisters. While the Broadway music industry had been something of a boys’ club throughout the 20th century (only four women had ever been Tony nominated for composition prior to The Secret Garden), Tesori’s parents had raised her to stand tall in the face of anyone who doubted her talent and work ethic. Her career on Broadway didn't actually start as a composer; Tesori began on the margins in her early days, working as a sub pianist and occasional arranger—often going uncredited as she learned on the job.
The Secret Garden, which featured a large
Jeanine Tesori
Jeanine Tesori was born on November 10, , and grew up in Port Washington, New York, where she started playing the piano at age three. Her father and mother were a doctor and a nurse, respectively, so when she matriculated at Barnard College, she began on the pre-med track, but after two summers working at a children’s theatre camp, Tesori changed her major to music.
After college, Tesori spent many years as a pianist, arranger, and conductor on and off-Broadway. Eventually, she decided to write her own musical, Violet, which opened at Playwrights Horizons in Tesori then wrote the incidental music for Lincoln Center’s production of Twelfth Night, for which she won a Drama Desk Award and was nominated for a Tony Award.
Shortly thereafter, Tesori teamed up with librettist Dick Scanlan to adapt the film Thoroughly Modern Millie for the stage, earning her a second Tony nomination. Since Millie, Tesori has written the music for several more Broadway shows, including Shrek and the Tony Award-winning Fun Home. Tesori has also composed music for several films, such as Nights in Rodanthe and The Little Mermaid: Ariel’s Beginning.
Tesori met her husband M
How Composer Jeanine Tesori ‘Paints’ Her History-Making Musicals
In ’s monthly series Office Hours, we ask people in powerful positions to take us through their first jobs, worst jobs, and everything in between. This month, we spoke with Jeanine Tesori, the most awarded female theatrical composer in history. She represents half of the first all-female writing team to win the Tony Award for Best Original Score, claiming the prize in for the groundbreaking musical Fun Home. Tesori has also been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama not once, but twice, and is known primarily for her character-driven songwriting. Other major works that feature music by Tesori include Caroline, or Change, Shrek The Musical, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Soft Power, and Violet.Her new Broadway musical Kimberly Akimbo, directed by Jessica Stone with book and lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire, opens at the Booth Theatre on November “I think it’s a show that carves out something—it has a real funny bone; it has a real heart,” Tesori says. “For a musical, it was what I needed to see at this moment, and it was what we wanted to write.”
How I fell in and out of love wi
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