NAMT Now Accepting Submissions for 22nd Annual Festival of New Musicals

The National Alliance for Musical Theatre (NAMT) is accepting submissions for its 22nd Annual Festival of New Musicals taking place in New York this fall. Submission information and the online application are available at www.namt.org.

Submission Deadlines: (postmark)

· February 4, 2010 - Non-NAMT Member Professional Theatre Organizations and Literary Agencies ($60 registration fee)

· February 18, 2010 - NAMT Members and Alumni Festival Writers (no registration fee required)

Any writer may apply, as long as the submission includes a letter of support from a NAMT member or any other professional theatre organization or an agent. If selected for the festival, the musical's writers and submitting organization have no financial obligation to NAMT, as NAMT fully funds the festival through contributions and sponsorships.

Past Festival successes include Tony Award-winners THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE (Festival 1996) and THE DROWSY CHAPERONE (Festival 2004). Other recent successes include:

BAND GEEKS! (Festival 2009) will receive a production at Goodspeed Musicals this spring and had a developmental production this past December at The Hartt School.

Adam Gwon, writer of ORDINARY DAYS (Festival 2008), received the Fred Ebb Award, in addition to a production at Roundabout Underground, Adirondack Theatre Festival, and planned productions at South Coast Rep and The Human Race Theatre Company.

BARNSTORMER (Festival 2008) will be seen at Red Mountain Theatre Company this month.

KINGDOM (Festival 2007) by Ian Williams and Aaron Jafferis received the Richard Rodgers Award and had readings at the Public Theater and Queens Theatre in the Park, with productions at The Old Globe Theatre and ReVision Theatre.

TINYARD HILL (Festival 2007) had its world premiere production at TheatreWorks in Palo Alto, CA following a developmental production at Red Mountain Theatre Company last year.

VANITIES, A NEW MUSICAL (Festival 2006) by Jack Heifner and David Kirshenbaum had a production at the Pasadena Playhouse followed by a production Off Broadway at Second Stage Theatre summer 2009.

NAMT's Festival of New Musicals is the cornerstone of NAMT's mission to nurture the creation, development, and production of new musicals. NAMT's Festival brings theatre professionals from across the world together for an industry-only event to discover eight new musicals over two days. Since 1989, the Festival has presented over 225 musicals and 340 writers, and 75% of these shows have found subsequent productions, tours, and licensing agreements as a direct result of the Festival.
NAMT Executive Director Kathy Evans said, "It is exciting to see how many of our past Festival shows are being produced across the country. We are proud of our role in bringing writers together with the leading producers of musical theatre, and in helping these writers have the successful careers they deserve."

The Festival of New Musicals is funded by contributions to National Alliance for Musical Theatre, a not-for-profit organization, and is supported in part by a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency.

For more information about the Festival of New Musicals, please contact NAMT New Works Director, Branden Huldeen at branden@namt.org or 212-714-6668 x14.

 

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