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Lincoln Center Visionary Artist: Jeanine Tesori

Each season, Lincoln Center honors one extraordinary artist whose impact, vision, and values embody the transformative power of the arts across the many disciplines represented on campus. Starting in August 2025, we celebrate Jeanine Tesori, one of the most prolific and honored theatrical composers in history. A two-time recipient and six-time nominee of the Tony Award for Best Score, a two-time Drama Desk Award recipient, a six-time GRAMMY Award nominee, and a two-time Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Tesori's major theatrical works include Kimberly Akimbo; Fun Home; Caroline, or Change; Shrek The Musical; Thoroughly Modern Millie; and Violet. Her operas include A Blizzard on Marblehead Neck; The Lion, the Unicorn, and Me; Blue, which received the MCANA Award for Best New Opera; and Grounded. She is also among the first women to be commissioned by The Metropolitan Opera.

Lincoln Center’s season-long celebration of Tesori centers around the theme of making connections—between artists, audiences, and the arts organizations that make up Lincoln Center. Program highlights include a production of her powerfully poignant opera Blue; her musical theater masterpiece Violet, performed in American Sign Language by Deaf Broadway; a film screening of West Side Story in collaboration with Film at Lincoln Center; a public community choir series inviting the audience to sing; a conversation series exploring the creative threads that connect storytelling across disciplines; and so much more.