Teaching & Learning: A Mutual Exchange
Jeanine Tesori (Photo: Bronwen Sharp) and Paula Vogel (Photo: Guzman@foureleven)
Jeanine Tesori (Photo: Bronwen Sharp) and Paula Vogel (Photo: Guzman@foureleven)

Paula Vogel:  I don’t think of mentorship as a service. I think of it as actually somewhat self-serving. Mentorship with me is a way that I get inspired and infused by a younger generation’s viewpoints. I think that that’s a necessity for me to have those conversations, hear those conversations, so that I try to transcend my own generation. Mentorship for me is a way for me to be taught. So no, I don’t really see it as something noble to do. I think of it as something necessary. 

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Jeanine Tesori
Jeanine Tesori

is a composer of musical theatre, opera, and film. She is a two-time recipient of the Tony Award for Best Score and a two-time Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Tesori is the Founding Artistic Director of New York City Center’s Encores! Off-Center series and a lecturer in music at Yale University.

Paula Vogel
Paula Vogel

s plays include Mother Play, Indecent, How I Learned to Drive, The Mineola Twins, The Baltimore Waltz, Hot’n’Throbbing, and Desdemona. She founded Brown University’s MFA playwriting program and served as chair of Playwriting at Yale School of Drama. Awards include two Tony nominations, the American Theatre Hall of Fame Award, two Obies, and a Guggenheim.