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Theatre Now's long-term and ongoing support for writers is accomplished through our Musical Writers Lab. Through a highly selective application and interview process, a limited number of musical theatre writing teams are asked to join either the Lab's in-person New York Group or online International Group. Resources and support made available to Lab members include rehearsal space, casting assistance, project-deadline setting, and legal services among other tangible and intangible assets. Depending on the developmental stage of the team's piece, the Lab also offers early table readings, sit-down readings with invited audiences and industry readings for those ready for major production. Since 2019 the Lab has brought together a large creative community to do what we love the most together.

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Lab openings are posted each summer.

 

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Our Programs

 Musical  Writers Lab 

 SOUND  BITES 

SOUND BITES is an Annual 10-Minute Musical Festival which showcases ten 10-minute musicals, all in one evening. Any 10-minute piece that can be performed, has a beginning, middle, and end story arc, and includes music qualifies! SOUND BITES offers an opportunity for talented musical theatre writers, composers, and lyricists to showcase their work in front of audiences and industry professionals. Through an open submission process, Theatre Now selects ten finalists for presentation in New York City each spring. During the first three years, SOUND BITES was held at The 47th Street Theatre. SOUND BITES 4.0 & 5.0 were presented at the Irene Diamond Stage at the Pershing Square Signature Center, and Merkin Hall at Kaufman Music Center has been its home since then.

 

SOUND BITES not only continues to grow larger each year but also provides musical theatre writers with much needed opportunities to develop their work through performance.

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855-254-7469

Theatre Now New York is a non-profit 501(c)(3) charitable organization.

Production Office:

520 Eighth Avenue, Suite 305, New York, NY 10018

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Land Acknowledgement

 

Our office is on the original homeland of the Munsee Lenape tribal nation. Theatre Now acknowledges the painful history of genocide and forced removal from this territory, and we honor and respect the many diverse Indigenous peoples still connected to this land on which we and our artists live and work.

 

As an organization and as artists, we often gather in virtual space. Take a moment to consider the legacies of colonization embedded within the technologies, structures, and ways of thinking we use every day. We are using equipment and high-speed internet not available to all communities. Even the technologies that are central to much of the art we make leave significant carbon footprints, contributing to changing climates that disproportionately affect indigenous peoples worldwide. Theatre Now invites you to join us in acknowledging all this as well as our shared responsibility: to make good of this time, and for each of us to consider our roles in reconciliation, decolonization, antiracism, and allyship.

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