# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jeanine-tesori
# Generated: 2026-08-15T11:58:04.956Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jeanine-tesori"
name: "Jeanine Tesori"
slug: "jeanine-tesori"
description: "Jeanine Tesori, known earlier in her career as Jeanine Levenson, is an American composer and musical arranger best known for her work in the theater. She is the most prolific and honored female theatrical composer in history, with six Broadway musicals, six Tony Award nominations, and five Grammy Award nominations for Best Musical Theater Album. She won the 1999 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music in a Play for Nicholas Hytner's production of Twelfth Night at Lincoln Center, the 2004 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music for Caroline, or Change, the 2015 Tony Award for Best Original Score for Fun Home, making them the first female writing team to win that award, and the 2023 Tony Award for Best Original Score for Kimberly Akimbo. She was named a Pulitzer Prize for Drama finalist twice for Fun Home and Soft Power."
tagline: "American composer and musical arranger (born 1961)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jeanine_tesori_2023_1.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1961-11-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.38
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.554974666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1507221/"
    handle:    "nm1507221"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "چاينين تيسورى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jeanine Tesori"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanine_Tesori"
    title: "Jeanine Tesori"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%92'%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%9F_%D7%98%D7%99%D7%A1%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%99"
    title: "ג'נין טיסורי"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanine_Tesori"
    title: "Jeanine Tesori"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16194364"
    title: "Wikidata"
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  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/76597"
    title: "Jeanine Tesori"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump