Jeffrey Lesser (born in New York City) is a music producer for

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. He has received ten Emmy Award nominations for his work on ''

Wonder Pets! ''Wonder Pets!'' is an American educational animated children's television series created by Josh Selig for Nickelodeon. The series follows a trio of classroom pets—Linny the Guinea Pig, Turtle Tuck and Ming-Ming Duckling—who use teamwork to ...

'', winning four of them. Lesser was a music director and producer at

Little Airplane Productions Little Airplane Productions is an American television production company co-founded by Josh Selig and Lori Shaer (née Sherman) in 1999. The company produced '' Oobi'' for Noggin, ''Wonder Pets!'' for Nickelodeon, and ''3rd & Bird'' for the BB ...

for thirteen years. He has produced records for

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('' Lazy Afternoon'') and

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''), among others.

Biography

Jeffrey Lesser was born on the

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, where he also began his career. Lesser joined Little Airplane Productions in 2003 to work on later episodes of '' Oobi'' and soon became the company's musical director, composing all pieces for Little Airplane series ''

3rd & Bird ''3rd & Bird'' is a children's animated television series created by Josh Selig. Selig's company, Little Airplane Productions, animated the series and opened a new studio in London to produce it. The show revolves around a community of birds and ...

'', '' Small Potatoes'', '' P. King Duckling'', ''Wonder Pets!'' and others. He has also produced music for various theater productions, including ''

The Rocky Horror Show ''The Rocky Horror Show'' is a Musical theatre, musical with music, lyrics and book by Richard O'Brien. A humorous tribute to the Science fiction film, science fiction and Horror film, horror B movies of the 1930s through to the early 1960s, the ...

'', ''

The Last Five Years ''The Last Five Years'' is a musical written by Jason Robert Brown. It premiered at Chicago's Northlight Theatre in 2001 and was then produced Off-Broadway in March 2002. Since then it has had numerous productions both in the United States an ...

'', '' Tick, Tick... Boom!'' and '' Parade''.

Awards

Lesser has been nominated for ten Creative Arts Daytime Emmy Awards, all for his work on the ''Wonder Pets!'' series.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lesser, Jeffrey Living people Record producers from New York (state) Daytime Emmy Award winners People from the Upper West Side Year of birth missing (living people) Jewish American musicians