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Infobox person| name = Jeanine Tesori| image =| image_size =| alt =| caption =| birth_name =| birth_date = | birth_place =| death_date = | death_place =| body_discovered =| death_cause =| resting_place =| resting_place_coordinates = | residence =| nationality = United States | ethnicity =| citizenship =| other_names =| known_for = Musical Theatre Arranger & Composer| education =| alma_mater = Barnard College | employer =| notable works = Caroline, or Change Violet (musical)|Violet Thoroughly Modern Millie (musical)|Thoroughly Modern Millie Shrek the Musical | occupation =| years_active = 1995 —| home_town =| salary =| networth =| height =| weight =| title =| term =| predecessor =| successor =| party =| opponents =| boards =| religion =| spouse = Michael Rafter | partner =| children =| parents =| relations =| callsign =| awards = Obie Award Drama Desk Award New York Drama Critics Circle Award Lucille Lortel Award | signature =| signature_alt =| website =| footnotes = Jeanine Tesori (born 1961, originally Jeanine Levenson )“ http://www.masterworksbroadway.com/artist/jeanine-tesori Jeanine Tesori,” Masterworks Broadway . (Retrieved 2010-03-29.) is an United States|American Arrangement|musical arranger and composer who won the 1999 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music in a Play for Nicholas Hytner 's production of Twelfth Night at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts|Lincoln Center and the 2004 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music for Caroline, or Change .
Tesori made her Broadway theatre|Broadway debut when she arranged the dance music for the 1995 revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying . In 1997 she composed the score for the off-Broadway musical Violet (musical)|Violet , which won her an Obie Award , the New York Drama Critics' Circle|New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Musical , and the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Musical, http://www.lortel.org/LLA_archive/index.cfm? search_by=people& first=Jeanine& middle=& last=Tesori Jeanine Tesori at the Lortel Archives and arranged the music for the Johnny Mercer revue Dream (musical)|Dream , a task 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 (musical)|The Secret Garden and '' The Who's Tommy .
In 2000, Tesori joined forces with lyricist Dick Scanlan to write eleven new songs for a stage adaptation of Thoroughly Modern Millie (musical)|Thoroughly Modern Millie . A successful run at the La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego prompted 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 twice, supplying music for Caroline, or Change in 2004 and a 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 . Caroline garnered her a second Tony nomination for Best Original Score.
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 .
Tesori's most recent Broadway stage project is Shrek the Musical , which earned her both Tony and Drama Desk Award nominations for her music.
In 2011, she wrote the music to Fun Home with a book and lyrics by Lisa Kron , and based on the novel by Alison Bechdel . The show is overseen by Philip Himberg while being workshopped at the Sundance Institute#Sundance Theatre Program|Sundance Institute's 2011 Theatre Lab at White Oaks Lab in Yulee, Florida|Yulee , Florida . It was previously developed during the 2009 Ojai Playwrights Conference . http://www.playbill.com/news/article/154432-Sundance-Will-Shape-Jeanine-Tesori-Lisa-Kron-Musical-Plus-Works-by-Debate-Society-Aaron-Jafferis-Byron-Au-Yong
Personal life
Tesori is a graduate of Barnard College and a member of the Dramatists Guild of America . She lives with her husband, conductor and musical director Michael Rafter, and their daughter Siena in Manhattan . http://americantheatrewing.org/biography/detail/jeanine_tesori Jeanine Tesori at AmericanTheatreWing.org
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http://www.americantheatrewing.org/seminars/detail/thoroughly_modern_millie_04_02/ Working in the Theatre Seminar video at American Theatre Wing.org, April 2002
http://www.americantheatrewing.org/seminars/detail/caroline_or_change_04_04/ Working in the Theatre Seminar video at American Theatre Wing.org, April 2004
Persondata | NAME = Tesori, Jeanine | ALTERNATIVE NAMES = | SHORT DESCRIPTION = | DATE OF BIRTH = 1961 | PLACE OF BIRTH = | DATE OF DEATH = | PLACE OF DEATH = DEFAULTSORT:Tesori, Jeanine Category:American musical theatre composers Category:Drama Desk Award winners Category:New York Drama Critics' Circle Award winners Category:Barnard College alumni Category:Living people Category:1961 births
