Draft:Jennifer Ashley Tepper
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Comment: What she has written or said are primary sources which cannot be used to establish notability and should only be used sparingly and blogs are not reliable sources so should not be used (see WP:UGS). S0091 (talk) 19:18, 30 October 2024 (UTC)
Jennifer Ashley Tepper (born March 5, 1986) is an American theatre historian, author, and producer with a career on Broadway and throughout New York City.
Career
[edit]Tepper is the conceiver of The Jonathan Larson Project which will start previews this coming February at the Orpheum Theatre, off-Broadway, following an acclaimed 2018 concert premiere and cast recording [1]. She has been the Creative and Programming Director at 54 Below since 2013 [2], where she has curated or produced over 7000 shows. Her leadership has gained praise from publications including The Huffington Post, The New York Times, Buzzfeed, Playbill, Newsday, The New York Post, and more.
As an author, Tepper's four volumes of The Untold Stories of Broadway book series [3] have been called an "inspiring Must- Read" by NBC New York and occupied the #1 spot on Amazon.com's Best Sellers List in Broadway & Musicals. Her newest book, Women Writing Musicals: The Legacy that the History Books Left Out was published in November 2024 [4]. Women Writing Musicals is the first-ever book about female musical theatre writers.
She is the producer of the musicals Be More Chill [5], Broadway Bounty Hunter [6], and Love In Hate Nation [7], part of a decade-long collaboration with Joe Iconis & Family.
Other Broadway projects include title of show, The Performers, Godspell, Macbeth, and The Parisian Woman.
For film, she was historian consultant on the tick, tick... BOOM! movie (directed by Lin-Manuel Miranda for Netflix) [8].
Tepper is the co-creator of the Bistro Award- winning concert series, If It Only Even Runs A Minute [9]
She is a proud theatre historian, whose work encompasses celebrated live talks and events, including at TEDxBroadway, BroadwayCon, The Museum of Broadway, Thespian Festivals, and more.
Producing
[edit]Tepper is a frequent collaborator of composer Joe Iconis.
Accolades
[edit]In 2020 she Lincoln Center Emerging Artist Award [10]. She was named one of the 10 professionals on Backstage Magazine's "1st Annual Broadway Future Power List", which stated: "Proving herself both a zeitgeist predictor and theatrical historian with her eclectic programming, Tepper is leading the conversation on contemporary musical theatre.”
References
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- ^ https://playbill.com/article/the-jonathan-larson-project-is-headed-off-broadway
- ^ https://playbill.com/article/jennifer-ashley-tepper-named-54-belows-new-director-of-programming-com-208180
- ^ https://playbill.com/article/volume-one-of-the-untold-stories-of-broadway-with-stories-from-200-of-broadways-best-hits-shelves-nov-12-com-211639
- ^ https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Jennifer-Ashley-Teppers-Women-Writing-Musicals-Book-Will-Get-November-Release-20240530
- ^ https://playbill.com/person/jennifer-ashley-tepper
- ^ https://www.broadwaybountyhunter.com/
- ^ https://playbill.com/article/new-joe-iconis-musical-love-in-hate-nation-premieres
- ^ https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2021/12/the-tick-tick-boom-research-at-the-library/
- ^ https://playbill.com/article/if-it-only-even-runs-a-minute-with-anthony-rapp-mary-testa-debbie-gravitte-offered-march-28-com-177613.
- ^ https://www.instagram.com/jenashtep/p/B9FanIlJ201/?igshid=1wrdy6e8f95el&hl=bg&img_index=1