Jeanine Tesori

LCT: Twelfth Night (Tony nomination). Additional Broadway: Thoroughly Modern Millie (lyrics, Dick Scanlan); Caroline, or Change (lyrics, Tony Kushner); and Shrek the Musical (lyrics, David Lindsay-Abaire), all Tony nominated. London: Caroline, or Change (Olivier winner, Best New Musical). Off-Broadway includes Violet (lyrics, Brian Crawley; New York Drama Critics Circle winner), Mother Courage adapted by Tony Kushner, starring Meryl Streep and Kevin Kline. Film scores include Nights in Rodanthe, Every Day, Winds of Change, Show Business and Wrestling with Angels. Opera commissions include Met/LCT Opera/Theater and Glimmerglass Opera. Producer of more than 60 CDs including original cast albums for Twelfth Night; Violet; and Caroline, or Change. Barnard graduate; Dramatists Guild council member. Forthcoming: a new musical with the playwright Lisa Kron.