30 Days of NYMF: Welcome from Isaac Hurwitz, Executive Director & Producer

By: Sep. 14, 2009
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Welcome to "30 Days of NYMF"

By Isaac Hurwitz (Executive Director and Producer, NYMF)

It's hard to believe it's been six years since we announced our first festival - a group of directors, producers, writers, actors, and others who shared the dream of getting new musicals in front of an audience. We didn't quite know how we'd make it happen - but with passion, determination and an outpouring of support, happen it did.

This year's festival starts in just two weeks, and I'm stunned to see how far we've come. On October 5, we'll premiere our 200th musical (there are actually 4 shows that night who'll have to share that distinction). NYMF shows are playing on and off-Broadway, and have won OBIE Awards, Drama Desk Awards, Tony Awards, and more. NYMF shows have left their mark on 43 of 50 states, plus the District of Columbia (if you run a theater in West Virginia or Mississippi, call us!) and over a dozen countries around the world.

I'm thrilled to kick off the "30 Days of NYMF" series on BroadwayWorld.com this year and to hand things off to folks from each of the different projects premiering this season. I hope you'll come back for the next 29 days to get an insider's perspective on the festival as some of the shows' creators, writers and composers blog about their experiences. This year we've got a little bit of everything in our line up, from superheroes to Shakespeare. We've got projects from Scotland, Mexico, Kenya, and Korea as well as shows from across the US. And more than ever, we've got a festival community that is a celebration of the dizzyingly talented actors, directors, designers and producers who keep musical theater fresh and vibrant.

However much we've grown, each year's festival is still a triumph of passion and willpower, a feat made possible by the personal commitment of a whole community of theater lovers. It takes over 1,000 talented artists to bring you the shows in this year's festival and nearly 100 volunteers to make NYMF itself run - not to mention numerous devoted sponsors and donors to keep it an affordable place where participants and audiences alike can take the risks that allow new musicals to flourish.

See you at the festival!
Isaac Robert Hurwitz

Executive Director and Producer

 


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