Have you written a great new musical, and are you looking for feedback and/or an opportunity for a concert reading? All entries are due today, July 15, for the annual Search for New Musicals at the Academy for New Musical Theatre.
The Search for New Musicals accepts entrants from around the globe; winners receive awards worth up to $25,000 in workshop productions, concert readings, feedback, and developmental support.
"We are thrilled to sponsor the Search," beams Elise Dewsberry, Artistic Director of the Academy. "We love seeing what writers are creating; and of course our mission is to nurture the folks who are writing musicals, so I'm am looking forward to seeing what submissions we will get this season."
Established in 2008, the Search for New Musicals has awarded concert readings and/or workshops to seventeen promising new musicals including MAD BOMBER by Charles Monagan and Richard de Rosa, EMERALD by Chris Burgess and Denise Wright, CHAPTER ELEVEN by Stephen Telfer, GILBERT & SULLIVAN ON WALL STREET by Charles Veley, THE WATER by
Georgia Stitt,
Jeff Hylton, and Tim Werenko; ROCKET BOYS by Homer Hickam, Jr., Chris Budinich, Diana Belkowski,
Dan Tramon, and
Carl Anthony Tramon; GIRL DETECTIVE by
Alan Gordon and
Mark Sutton-Smith; GREENBRIER GHOST by
Susan Murray and
Clay Zambo; THE NEXT FAIRY TALE by
Brian Pugach; and LIFE AFTER LIFE by
Tracey Langran Corea and Thaddeus Corea.
If you've written a musical, and you would like some honest, constructive, detailed feedback on how to make your musical better, you can submit your musical to ANMT for dramaturgical feedback at levels from evaluation to analysis to table reading to workshop to concert reading.
The submission deadline this season is July 15, 2013. All submissions will receive either an audio Overview Evaluation ($100 submission level) or an audio/video Detailed Analysis ($400 submission level), and will also be automatically entered into the Search contest..
"I've never received a more cogent and useable evaluation," wrote Search writer
Elliott Baker (author of THE TOOTH FAIRY'S DAUGHTER). "I'm very comfortable with the critique process but I have never finished reading a critique/evaluation with as much desire and energy to go to work on and polish a piece."
"The evaluation was far more in-depth than I expected and seemed to cover all the key aspects of the show. Frankly, I found it more helpful than a staged reading would have been," stated Search participant
Barbara Campbell (bookwriter/lyricist of THE AWAKENING). "This critique offered me far more in-depth comments into the basic 'nuts and bolts' than I have ever received to date."
British writer Michael Dresser stated "The real value of this service is in its rarity: from genuine industry professionals who have the clarity and vision to provide feedback with no bias or agenda and which asks the right questions and suggestions to enable YOU to genuinely UNDERSTAND how to make your work a better piece of musical theatre - the long term benefits of which are incalculable!"
All entries will receive constructive dramaturgical feedback, and will be entered in the Search contest. The winner of the 2013 Search will be announced by November 15, and will receive a workshop with the Academy Repertory Company, detailed feedback from the ANMT staff, and will be given a concert reading in Los Angeles, a prize valued at approximately $10,000.
Writers can submit their shows electronically via ANMT's website, or submit materials by mail after completing an online submission form.
Information on submitting to the Search is available online via ANMT's website:
www.anmt.org.
