Washington National Opera at the Kennedy Center in December 2013. The libretto is by J. D. McClatchy, based on the children's book by Jeanette Winterson and was directed by Francesca Zambello. The English version of three songs in the 2016 Tokyo DisneySea stage show Out of Shadowland were written by Tesori. They were sung in Japanese by pop singer Angela Aki. With book and lyrics by David Henry Hwang, Tesori's new musical Soft Power began performances at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles in May 2018 and at San Francisco's Curran Theatre in June. The musical opened Off-Broadway at the Public Theater on September 14, 2019, directed by Leigh Silverman. The musical was named a 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Drama finalist. In July 2019, she premiered her opera Blue, with libretto by Tazewell Thompson, at the Glimmerglass Festival in Cooperstown, New York. The opera concerns the issue of African American boys having become a prime target of police brutality in the United States. In December of 2021, her new musical, Kimberly Akimbo, with book and lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire opened at the Linda Gross Theater in Manhattan. It won Best Musical at the Drama Desk Awards, Lucille Lortel Awards, and Outer Critics Circle Awards. It is scheduled to move to Broadway in fall 2022, with previews beginning on October 12, and an official opening on November 10. Personal life She lives with her husband, Michael Rafter, and their daughter, Siena, in Manhattan. Stage Violet (1997) Twelfth Night (1998) Thoroughly Modern Millie (2000) Caroline, or Change (2003) Mother Courage and Her Children (2006) Shrek The Musical (2008) A Blizzard on Marblehead Neck (2011) Fun Home (2013) The Lion, The Unicorn, and Me (2013) Soft Power (2018) Blue (2019) Kimberly Akimbo (2021) References Further reading External links Internet Broadway Database Working in the Theatre Seminar video at American Theatre Wing.org, April 2002 Working in the Theatre Seminar video at American Theatre Wing.org, April 2004 1961 births 20th-century American Jews 21st-century American Jews American film score composers American music arrangers American musical theatre composers American opera composers American women film score composers Animated film score composers Barnard College alumni Broadway composers and lyricists Drama Desk Award winners Jewish American film score composers Jewish American songwriters Jewish opera composers Living people New York Drama Critics' Circle Award winners Songwriters from New York (state) Tony Award winners Women musical theatre composers Women opera composers