Submissions Now Being Accepted for 13th Annual New York Musical Theatre Festival

The New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) is now accepting submissions for new musicals for its 2016 Festival. Also announced was the selection of panelists for the 2016 Grand Jury who will help to choose shows for acceptance into the Next Link Project, NYMF's primary writer-service program.

NYMF supports and celebrates both new voices and established musical theatre writers from around the globe. The Festival hosts productions and readings of new musicals in development, as well as concerts. Writers with or without representation may submit their shows as long as it has not received a professional New York production. Scripts should be ready for developmental production and the exposure that the participation in NYMF provides.

Deadlines to submit musicals for the 2016 New York Musical Theatre Festival are as follows:

AUGUST 17, 2015: SUBMISSIONS OPEN FOR NEW MUSICALS

OCTOBER 11, 2015:EARLY DEADLINE FOR NEW MUSICALS

NOVEMBER 1, 2015:OFFICIAL ENTRY DEADLINE FOR NEW MUSICALS

More information regarding how to submit for the 2016 New York Musical Theatre Festival is now available at www.nymf.org/submitashow. Questions regarding submissions may be directed to literary@nymf.org or by calling 212-664-0979.

The Next Link Project empowers emerging musical theatre writing teams by providing entrepreneurial training, career networking opportunities, dramaturgical support, and other services, culminating in a subsidized production in the Festival. In 2016, NYMF will accept 10 shows into the Next Link Project. Past Next Link Project productions at the New York Musical Theatre Festival have included: Pope! An Epic Musical, Manuel versus The Statue of Liberty, Fat Camp, Yank!, Academia Nuts, Flight of the Lawn Chair Man, Cloned!, Frog Kiss, and F*cking Hipsters!

Next Link Project participants receive the following benefits:

? A subsidized production slot at NYMF 2016 (including savings in production fees, and discounted technical and marketing support)

? Dramaturgical support

? Seminars and workshops geared toward successfully preparing, presenting, and promoting the NYMF production

? Access to exclusive industry networking events

The New York Musical Theatre Festival also announced the following esteemed theatre professionals that will comprise its 2016 Grand Jury:

Araca Group Senior Vice President of Production and Development JEN BENDER

Tony Award-winning performer MICHAEL CERVERIS

Obie and Drama Desk Award-winning performer DONNA LYNNE CHAMPLIN

Obie and OCC Award-winning writer, lyricist, and performer GRETCHEN CRYER

Drama Desk Award-winning performer SANTINO FONTANA

AUDELCO Award-nominated director KAMILAH FORBES

ICM Partners Agent DIANA GLAZER

Tony Award-nominated performer MONTEGO GLOVER

Fox Stage Productions Senior Vice President of Creative Affairs (and former NYMF Executive Director & Producer) ISAAC ROBERT HURWITZ

Director WEST HYLER

Tony Award-nominated performer MARC KUDISCH

Director, producer, and performer JONATHAN MCCRORY

Performer JESSICA MOLASKEY

Tony Award-nominated and Theater World Award winning performer TONY SHELDON

Tony Award-nominated and Obie Award winning director LEIGH SILVERMAN

Drama Desk Award-nominated choreographer and performer SERGIO TRUJILLO

Playwright and Producer RANDY WEINER

Tony Award-winning performer LILLIAS WHITE

ABOUT THE NEW YORK MUSICAL THEATRE FESTIVAL

The New York Musical Theatre Festival nurtures the creation, production, and public presentation of stylistically, thematically, and culturally diverse new musicals to ensure the future vitality of musical theatre.

Now going in to its thirteenth year, the Festival is the largest musical theatre event in America. The preeminent site for launching new musicals and discovering new talent, the Festival provides an affordable platform for artists to mount professional productions that reach their peers, industry leaders, and musical theatre fans. More than 90 Festival shows have gone on to productions on and Off-Broadway, in regional theaters in all 50 states, and in more than 20 countries worldwide. Festival alumni have received a wide array of awards including the Tony Award and the Pulitzer Prize. In 2013, NYMF received a special Drama Desk Award in recognition of its work "creating and nurturing new musical theatre, ensuring the future of this essential art form."

NYMF is the flagship program of National Music Theater Network, Inc., a 501(c) (3) not-for-profit organization. NYMF is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

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