Tony-winning composer Jeanine Tesori (Kimberly Akimbo, Fun Home) has been named Lincoln Center Visionary Artist for the arts center's 2025-2026 season, which will bring several Tesori-related events to Lincoln Center venues.

That programming includes a staged concert performance of Tesori and Tazewell Thompson's opera Blue at David Geffen Hall November 15; a Deaf Broadway performance of Tesori and Brian Crawley's Violet, featuring actors performing the musical in American Sign Language as the Broadway cast album plays; and two entries in her Cast Album Project April 5-6, 2026, in The Appel Room at Jazz at Lincoln Center. The latter, a collaboration between Tesori, Anne Kauffman, and Teneisha Duggan, brings attention to culturally significant musicals by historically marginalized artists that have faded from public memory with a live cast recording session. The musical that will be presented is to be announced.

Tesori will also participate in several talks. Blue will be the subject of November 7's Reimagining Justice, which will feature the composer joined by Thompson, Susan Sturm, and Bryonn Bain. Five Black ballerinas of Dance Theatre of Harlem will be the focus of April 30, 2026's Swans of Harlem, and Tesori will be joined by her Kimberly Akimbo and Shrek collaborator David Lindsay-Abaire for The Lineage of Laughter May 12, 2026, to discuss the influence of playwright Christopher Durang on Lindsay-Abaire's work.

The venue's newly announced season includes many other dance, music, theatre, and family offerings across its multi-stage campus, including a live performance of Philip Glass' Songs From Liquid Days, the North American premiere of Pulitzer winner Da Yun's The Ocean Etched in the Forest (刻在森林的海), and performances curated by artists in residence Mahogany L. Browne and Tony winner Clint Ramos.

A full schedule is at LincolnCenter.org.