Jennifer Ashley Tepper is the author of four volumes of “The Untold Stories of Broadway” book series. She is the Creative and Programming Director at 54 Below, a position she has held for over a decade, curating or producing over 7,000 shows. In addition, she was the producer of the musicals Be More Chill, Broadway Bounty Hunter, and Love In Hate Nation, projects that are part of a decade-long collaboration with Joe Iconis & Family. Her other Broadway credits include [title of show] and Godspell. Tepper is co-creator of the Bistro Award-winning concert series “If It Only Even Runs A Minute,” celebrating underappreciated musicals, and conceiver of The Jonathan Larson Project. She was the historian consultant on the film, tick, tick... BOOM!

This exhaustively researched book should be on the shelves of every musical theater teacher as well as those discussing feminism and women’s studies. Three hundred often neglected females from the 18th century (a revelation) to the present are noted and sketched with increasing thoroughness as years pass … A fascinating collection.

Jennifer Ashley Tepper is the author of four volumes of “The Untold Stories of Broadway” book series. She is the Creative and Programming Director at 54 Below, a position she has held for over a decade, curating or producing over 7,000 shows. In addition, she was the producer of the musicals Be More Chill, Broadway Bounty Hunter, and Love In Hate Nation, projects that are part of a decade-long collaboration with Joe Iconis & Family. Her other Broadway credits include [title of show] and Godspell. Tepper is co-creator of the Bistro Award-winning concert series “If It Only Even Runs A Minute,” celebrating underappreciated musicals, and conceiver of The Jonathan Larson Project. She was the historian consultant on the film, tick, tick... BOOM!

This exhaustively researched book should be on the shelves of every musical theater teacher as well as those discussing feminism and women’s studies. Three hundred often neglected females from the 18th century (a revelation) to the present are noted and sketched with increasing thoroughness as years pass … A fascinating collection.

Jennifer Ashley Tepper is the author of four volumes of “The Untold Stories of Broadway” book series. She is the Creative and Programming Director at 54 Below, a position she has held for over a decade, curating or producing over 7,000 shows. In addition, she was the producer of the musicals Be More Chill, Broadway Bounty Hunter, and Love In Hate Nation, projects that are part of a decade-long collaboration with Joe Iconis & Family. Her other Broadway credits include [title of show] and Godspell. Tepper is co-creator of the Bistro Award-winning concert series “If It Only Even Runs A Minute,” celebrating underappreciated musicals, and conceiver of The Jonathan Larson Project. She was the historian consultant on the film, tick, tick... BOOM!

This exhaustively researched book should be on the shelves of every musical theater teacher as well as those discussing feminism and women’s studies. Three hundred often neglected females from the 18th century (a revelation) to the present are noted and sketched with increasing thoroughness as years pass … A fascinating collection.