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by David Lindsay-Abaire , Jeanine Tesori (Composer)
2023 Tony Award winner for Best Musical!
Author Biography
David Lindsay-Abaire is a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, screenwriter, lyricist and librettist. His play Good People premiered on Broadway, and was awarded the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play, The Horton Foote Prize, The Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award, and two Tony nominations. His play Rabbit Hole received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, five Tony nominations, and the Spirit of America Award. David also wrote the book and lyrics for Shrek the Musical (Jeanine Tesori, composer), which was nominated for eight Tonys, four Oliviers, a Grammy, and earned David the Kleban Prize as America's most promising musical theatre lyricist. David's other plays include Ripcord, Fuddy Meers, Kimberly Akimbo, Wonder of the World and A Devil Inside, among others.
Jeanine Tesori is the composer of the Tony Award-winning Best Musical Fun Home (lyrics, Lisa Krown) as well as four scores that have earned Tony nominations: Twelfth Night at Lincoln Center, Thoroughly Modern Millie (lyrics, Dick Scanlan), Caroline, or Change (lyrics, Tony Kushner), and Shrek the Musical (lyrics, David Lindsay-Abaire). Tesori is the most honored female composer in Broadway history, having won two Drama Desk Awards, two Obie Awards, the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Musical, and The New York Drama Critics' Circle Award. She has twice been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, for Fun Home and for Soft Power (book and lyrics by David Henry Hwang).
