Biz of the Musical Theatre Conference Early Registration Deadline Set for 6/1

The early registration deadline for the sixth biennial Biz of the Musical Theatre Biz Conference is coming up on June 1.

New Musicals Inc. in Los Angeles is hosting a conference just for musical theatre bookwriters, lyricists, and composers. EIGHT incredible panels, multiple power-networking sessions, and several opportunities to pitch your musical to producers all around the country. The Biz of the Musical Theatre Biz is a jam-packed weekend with producers, directors, writers, entertainment attorneys, money-raisers, dramaturgs and other insider theatre professionals ready to rub shoulders with you and answer your questions. If you're serious about your musical theatre writing career, this is a weekend you won't want to miss.

The conference this year will take place the weekend of July 22, 23, and 24 - in a brand new conference facility in Burbank. Among the panels is a session with Broadway producer Ken Davenport (Spring Awakening, The Visit, Kinky Boots, Mothers and Sons, and Godspell, as well as six Off-Broadway shows, including Altar Boyz, and Daddy Long Legs). There will also be panels on finding funding; getting info from lawyers; and a unique "Pitch Panel" writers get a chance to pitch musicals to a panel of producers.

New panelists are coming on board all the time, but the list so far includes:

Ken Davenport (Broadway Producer)
Sheldon Epps (Artistic Director, Pasadena Playhouse)
Michael A. Kerker (ASCAP Director of Musical Theatre)
Brian Graden (CEO, Brian Graden Media)
Daniel Henning (Artistic Director, The Blank Theatre)
Amy Lieberman (Casting Director)
Jeff Loeb (Associate General Manager, Pantages Theatre)
Brady Schwind (Director/Conceiver, Carrie)
Mark Waldman (Production Counsel, Carrie, the musical)
Michael R. Blaha (Entertainment Lawyer, Producer)
Tim Dang (Producing Artistic Director, East West Players)
Michael Shepperd (Artistic Director, Celebration Theatre)
Lou Spisto (Executive Producer, Recorded in Hollywood)
Matt Donnelly (Writer, Recorded in Hollywood)
Denise Dowse (Director, Recorded in Hollywood)
Padraic Duffy (Managing Director, Sacred Fools Theatre)
Gordon P. Firemark (Entertainment Lawyer)
John Perrin Flynn (Artistic Director, Rogue Machine)
Karole Foreman (Writer, The Princess & the Black-Eyed Pea)
Kevin Saunders Hayes (Creator, Vox Lumiere)
Michael Michetti (Co-Artistic Director, The Theatre @ Boston Court)
Steven Leigh Morris (Executive Director, LA Stage Alliance)
Erik Przytulski (Co-Creator, Alien V. Musical)
Steve Troop (Co-Creator, Alien V. Musical)

PLUS! - Some musicals written by conference participants will receive staged-reading presentations of excerpts; followed by a feedback session with NMI staffers and guests. The conference moderators will talk about how staged-readings have become such a critical step in the development of your show, and their vital importance nationally at places like the National Alliance for Musical Theatre, the Village Theatre, Goodspeed, etc.

There is an Early Registration discount of $100 off the full conference for participants who sign up by June 1st.

To find out more information about the conference, and to register visit this link: http://nmi.org/develop/conference/.

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