Live Music: Song & Speech
This program includes a live musical component in which JEANINE TESORI plays the piano, leading the audience in a show tunes singalong.
Creative Innovation
Broadway composer JEANINE TESORI’s ability to break barriers and redefine norms in the arts makes her a compelling speaker on creativity, innovation, and innovation in the entertainment industry. Tesori’s passionate, engaging presentation style ensures that audiences leave with valuable lessons and a renewed sense of possibility.
Women Making History: Jeanine Tesori’s Broadway journey provides inspiration for all
Groundbreaking musician JEANINE TESORI was the first female composer ever to have two original musicals running at the same time on Broadway. She is the most prolific and honored female theatrical composer in history, with five Broadway musicals and six Tony Award nominations. Her work on vastly successful musicals such as Fun Home, Thoroughly Modern Millie, and Shrek The Musical have changed theater forever. In live events, Tesori brings her magic to your stage, inspiring audiences with an unforgettable night of stories and showtunes.
Jeanine Tesori is a composer of musical theatre, opera and film. Her musicals include Kimberly Akimbo; Soft Power; Fun Home; Shrek The Musical; Caroline, or Change; Thoroughly Modern Millie; and Violet. She is a two-time recipient of the Tony Award for Best Score and a two-time Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Her operas include A Blizzard on Marblehead Neck; The Lion, The Unicorn and Me; and Blue, which received the MCANA Award for Best New Opera. For her opera Grounded, she became one of the first two women to be commissioned by The Metropolitan Opera. Tesori served as Supervising Vocal Producer on Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story.
She is the Founding Artistic Director of New York City Center’s Encores! Off-Center series and a lecturer in music at Yale University.
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