Joanne Sydney Lessner

Joanne Sydney Lessner is an American musical theatre librettist and playwright. She won the 2010 Heiress Productions' Playwriting Competition and was nominated for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lyrics in 2020.
In collaboration with composer Joshua Rosenblum, she has written six musicals: Garbo & Me '', Love is not a Science, Stage Door, Fermat’s Last Tango, The Haunted Hotel, and Einstein’s Dreams which was nominated for four Drama Desk Awards after an Off-Broadway 2019 run at 59E59 Theater, New York.
Her play Critical Mass'' won the 2010 Heiress Productions' Playwriting Competition and was produced at the Lion Theater, New York.
Lessner graduated summa cum laude from Yale University in 1987.