Long Island native Jeanine Tesori's award-winning career as a composer came out of a dream discovered in adulthood. "I wasn't a theatre kid," she told TDF Stages in a 2013 interview. She entered Barnard College as a premed student, but eventually rediscovered a childhood love of piano and transferred to Columbia University's music program, from
SOURCE: blog.roundabouttheatre.org at 04:31PM on May 29, 2014