Director Ilana Ransom Toeplitz generously shares her thoughts and experience on the process of working with writers on new musicals.

Now that you’ve got a script and music, let’s put it out there.
Director Ilana Ransom Toeplitz generously shares her thoughts and experience on the process of working with writers on new musicals.
Live & In Color (formerly The Bingham Camp Theatre Retreat) is a creative home for faces and stories that reflect today’s beautiful, multicultural landscape. They develop new work for the stage that promotes and celebrates diversity.
Virtual readings have become the norm and are now a cost-effective way to develop your musical while Broadway and other stages are dark. Here are a few tips on how to host your own Virtual Reading.
New York City’s Institute for American Musical Theatre “Creators” program has announced a diverse array of online courses in musical theater writing for the 2020-21 season. (MEMBER PERK: Members of MusicalWriters Academy are eligible to receive a $50 discount on each course!)
Of all the independent annual theater festivals in Manhattan, New York New Works (NYNW) is the only one that presents a group of condensed shows in an evening designed for the convenience of A-list Broadway folks and potential investors.
NYMF alumns Brenda Machabach and David Mauk, writers of The Time Machine the Musical, share their advice on participating in musical theatre festivals.
The Broadway Bound Theatre Festival (which now accepts musicals) was created to teach playwrights to become self-producers at the festival level in the most economical way and develop new skill sets that will serve them in the future.
Musical writers can take advantage of the crowd power and use festivals as a relatively economical way to reach an audience while preparing for the next stage of development. The gathering of artists also makes festival participation helpful for building a network for future projects.
Use this helpful checklist to evaluate your own musical or analyze your favorite shows.