Academic Opportunities
Colleges and Universities provide some of the best opportunities for getting started in musical theatre and getting your shows mounted. In addition to the programs listed here, other theatre departments sometimes allow student productions.
Boston Music Theatre Project
Suffolk University, Boston, Massachussetts
cas.suffolk.edu Forging the future of the American Musical through productions of new work. The Boston Music Theatre Project (BMTP) is a program of the Theatre Department at Suffolk University. BMTP nurtures new work of exceptional promise in its formative stages through readings and workshop productions.
The American Music Theatre Project
Northwestern University,Evanston, Illinois
www.amtp.northwestern.edu/ The American Music Theatre Project is a new initiative of Northwestern University dedicated to "developing and producing new musicals in cooperation with some of music theatre's top writers, composers and directors."
Tisch Graduate Musical Theatre Writing
New York University, New York City
gmtw.tisch.nyu.edu The Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program is a master's degree program specially designed for the major collaborators in the creation of new musical theatre and opera. Students and faculty include composers, lyricists, and bookwriters--those who put their individual talents together to write works for the musical stage.
The program's aim is to give students the skills to be able to wed form to content in original ways that best fulfill their unique artistic visions. Each year, 22 full-time students embark on a two year course, participating in ongoing writing workshops that emphasize craft, the art of collaboration, rewriting, developing the student's original voice, storytelling, and content (putting ideas on stage) ....The program culminates in the thesis musicals: the creation of full-length original works.
AUDIO CLIP of talk by Mel Marvin, Theatre composer, director, and head composer of NYU's Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program. Shop Talk
Goodspeed Musical Theate Institute
East Haddam, Connecticut
http://www.goodspeed.org Goodspeed Musicals' Max Showalter Center for Education in the Musical Theater announces the birth of Goodspeed's Musical Theatre Institute.
The Musical Theatre Institute creates a bridge between emerging writers and early career performers with seasoned performers and professional artists and together they experience the process of creating a new musical. The 2005 winter program of the Institute includes the New Writers' Residency, in collaboration with the Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program at New York University: Tisch School of the Arts as well as the newly formed New Artists Program.
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