NYMF wins $100,000 Jujamcyn Award

Created in 1984, the Jujamcyn Theaters Award is a $100,000 prize given annually to a theater organization that has made an outstanding contribution to the development of creative talent for the theater. Previous recipients have been The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, American Repertory Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, The Mark Taper Forum, Second Stage, The Foundation of the Dramatists Guild Young Playwrights Festival, The Guthrie Theater, The New York Shakespeare Festival, Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre, The Alliance For New American Musicals, The Market Theatre in South Africa , New York Stage and Film Company, American Conservatory Theatre, City Center Encores!, Atlantic Theater Company, Penumbra Theatre Company, Manhattan Theatre Club, Labyrinth Theater Company, and Shakespeare's Globe Theatre.

Now entering its second year, The New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) presented over 141 events in 26 performance venues across the city during its 2004 Festival, surpassing all expectations and becoming the largest musical theatre event in American history. Aspiring to invigorate the musical theater community by stimulating the production of new and innovative work, NYMF garnered strong reviews and sold-out houses that have led to commercial options for at least seven of its 31 productions. In addition to full productions of new musicals, the festival included improvised musicals, panel discussions, readings, concerts, and cabaret performances, as well as a 39-film new movie musical series.

For more information on NYMF, visit their site at www.nymf.org