Jeanine Tesori

Her major works include 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, where she initially was pre-med but changed her major to music.