Our Writers' Workshop is 42 years old, and our writers have had more than 400 productions. Join us for our famous two-year curriculum, or ask us for feedback, table readings, concert readings, etc. Be part of our community!
Producers: Do you have a musical that's not yet ready for an expensive New York outing? We have a growing national reputation for feedback, table readings, and concert readings. And ask us about developing a musical for you from scratch...either with your writers or ours.
Workshops, courses, audition techniques, and more for adults and teens. Performers' Workshops for professional actors with revered Broadway actor Joshua Finkel and music director Jake Anthony.
What is Open Workshop?! ANMT's new Open Workshop is an informal gathering of writers and performers for exploration and relationship-building based on a mutual love of new musical theatre! Membership is open to all, whether or not you are currently a member of ANMT. For more information, please click the link to the Open Workshop page!
We develop musicals. Workshops, feedback sessions, concert readings...and occasionally recommending shows to theatres, directors and producers. But we don't produce shows. If feedback and development what you're after, then click here to see how we might be able to help.
Don't live in Los Angeles? You can still be part of our Writers' Workshop with our online courses in lyric writing, book writing, outlining and many more. Plus, visit our online musical theatre channel, ANMT.TV, featuring original web musicals, interviews, documentaries, and our own outrageous guerrilla musicals in which musicals burst out in the most unexpected public places. Subscribe today!
On this page, you’ll find a brief history, descriptions of our process for developing musicals, and some options for you to get involved as a producer, writer, or musical theatre fan.
Auditions for the third session of all levels of the Performers' Workshop at ANMT will be held on Sunday, February 7th from 10:30-2:30. Click the logo to go to the audition sign-up page, and for more info on the Performers' Workshop.
Broadway writers and producers, Los Angeles artistic directors, independent producers, entertainment attorneys, all gathered together for a jam-packed weekend devoted to musical theatre writers...and how to get their work produced! ANMT hosted the conference in 2006 and 2008, and will be hosting the 2010 conference, currently scheduled for July.
Join us for our upcoming winter session -- build your own cabaret act! We'll produce an evening at the MBar, featuring YOU! Auditions are November 15th.
CLICK HERE to make an audition appointment.
Perpetual Surrey is the new 'theatrichorale' devoted to choral musical theatre pieces. Click here for more information on upcoming concerts and auditions.
The Academy Repertory Company (ARC) is an elite ensemble of sight-singing, cold-reading performers who meet every Monday evening to take part in the deveopment of new musicals. ARC also produces an series of readings of new musicals at the Colony Theatre. Membership in ARC is by invitation only. Click for more information.
DEADLINE FOR THE 2010 SEARCH IS DECEMBER 15! First prize is a workshop with the Academy Repertory Company followed by a public reading in our Concert Readings Series. Click the logo for more information.
The Talent Bank is a resource of performers interested in taking part in the development of new musicals. Many writers use the Talent Bank as a casting tool when putting together readings of new works. Click for more information.
This is the entry point for bookwriters, lyricists, and composers wishing to get involved with ANMT. An intensive 9-month series of collaborations culminates in the annual 15 Minute Musicals. Click for more information.
ANMT's internet channel devoted to musicals written for the web. Home of 'Guerrilla Musicals' and '15 Second Musicals'. Also interviews, documentaries, and links to national and international musical theatre online shorts.
Don't live in Los Angeles, but you still want to plug into the musical theatre writing community? We're driving internet technology to bring our workshops directly to you! Videos, online courses, one-on-one feedback from Academy instructors. WritingMusicalTheatre.com can hook you up with collaborators, and plug you into tomorrow's musical theatre world. Visit us today at WritingMusicalTheatre.com!
ANMT hosts an on-going series of Salons with musical theatre luminaries. Past Salon guests have included Stephen Sondheim, Jeff Marx, Jason Robert Brown, Winnie Holzman, George Stiles and Anthony Drewe, Richard Sherman, Charles Strouse, Marty Panzer, and Arthur Kopit. Click here to find or when's our next Salon, or to join our email list for a reminder.
The second year of our Writers' Workshop focuses on the full-length musical. Bookwriters, composers and lyricists team together on an intense nine-month collaboration, creating a complete full-length musical, culminating in a reading in the spring.
Two dozen digital videos. Interactive Tests. Online exercises, handouts and one-on-one assignments with an expert in the field of musical theatre lyric writing. The online Lyric lab covers powerful tools such as: The Verse, the Chorus, Prosody, Structure, Rhyme, Poetic meter and form, Scansion, Spotting Songs, Progressions, and even a unit on how to decide what structure might be right for your song. Work at your own pace -- take one month or six months; whatever works for your schedule and workload.
What is the future of musical theatre on the internet? One possibility is the Guerrilla Musical -- short, spontaneous musicals which burst forth in unexpected places like furniture stores, restaurants and zoos. Intrigued? Visit www.anmt.tv to see some original guerrilla musicals which ANMT has written and filmed exclusively for the internet!
The ANMT facility in North Hollywood has space available for rental for rehearsals, auditions, film shoots, and informal readings. The Main Hall is 24x39, with a simple platform stage (24x8) at one end, and can seat up to 80 on banquet chairs. The Front Studio is 12x11. Click here for rates, pictures, and rental policy.
