Chicago Children's Theatre

• Jacqueline Russell
• Cheryl Lynn Bruce
• Ralph Covert
• Geoffrey M. Curley
• Henry Godinez
• Sean Graney
• Rachel Healy
• Tina Landau
• Jim Lasko
• Lisa Portes
• Jeanine Tesori
• Andrew White

Jeanine Tesori

Tesori is an award winning composer, record producer and conductor. Last year, she won the honor of being the only female composer to have two musicals running on Broadway concurrently, Caroline, or Change and Thoroughly Modern Millie. As a composer, Ms. Tesori created the Tony nominated musical score for Caroline, or Change (with Pulitzer Prize winner, Tony Kushner (Angels in America), as librettist). Ms. Tesori won the 2004 Drama Desk Award for Best Score for Caroline, or Change. Ms. Tesori also created the musical score for the 2003 Tony Award winner for Best Musical, Thoroughly Modern Millie. Previously, she wrote an exotic score for Nicholas Hytner's production of Twelfth Night at Lincoln Center for which she was honored with a 1999 Tony Award nomination and Drama Desk Award. Ms. Tesori is writing a new animated feature musical motion picture for Disney based on RAPUNZEL which is scheduled for a worldwide theatrical release in 2008. She also wrote the score for Disney's Mulan II with lyricist Alexa Junge, and several pieces for Disney's Lilo and Stitch II and Emperor's New Groove II. She is also one of the main record producers for Holt Reinhardt, Silver Burdett Ginn. Through SBG, she produces an educational music series used nationwide in schools comprised of 90 CD's of all music genres. She lives with her husband, conductor Michael Rafter, and their daughter Siena.