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ANMT Giving Page

Thank you for considering a charitable donation
 to the Academy for New Musical Theatre.

  

The Academy for New Musical Theatre is an officially registered charity, and any donation you make can be deducted to the full extent allowed by the law.

Your generous donation will go toward the operating expenses of maintaining ANMT's workshops, readings, and developmental activities.  Or if you wish, you may direct your donation to one of the specific projects detailed below.  (Click the title for more details):

Matching Grant Campaign

Concert Reading Series at the Colony

Endowment Fund

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ANMT is supported, in part, by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission.

 
 

Matching Grant Campaign

The Academy for New Musical Theatre has been
awarded a $10,700 matching grant from
the L.A. County Arts Commission.

 Would you like to help us match it?

About the Grant

About Elise Dewsberry

The purpose of the grant is to help convert the position of Artistic Director into a full time position.

The current Artistic Director, John Sparks, will be retiring imminently, after having volunteered in the position for nearly thirty years.  ANMT's goal is to offer Elise Dewsberry the full-time position with full-time salary.  Your donation will go directly towards this purpose.

Should we succeed in raising more than the $10,700 offered by the L.A. Arts Commission, we will apply any surplus toward ANMT's general operating expenses.

Elise has been involved in the development of new works for over fifteen years: as an actor/singer, as a director, as a dramaturge, and as a writer. While living in Toronto, Elise served as the Assistant Artistic Director of the Muskoka Festival; the Co-Ordinator of the festival’s annual Musical Theatre Writer’s Colony, the Associate Dramaturge of the Canadian Stage Company; the Resident Dramaturge of the Smile Theatre Company; and was the co-founder of Toronto’s Script Lab.

Elise spent many years touring Canada with NINE MONTHS – a one-woman musical which she commissioned from writers Carl Ritchie and Stephen Woodjetts. Elise and Carl also co-wrote ANY BODY HOME?, which was produced by the Cordova Bay Theatre in Victoria, British Columbia, and published by Dramatic Publishing.

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Concert Reading Series
at the Colony

ANMT is taking a new, really important big step:  we’re helping writers get their work in front of an audience!  As you know, it is absolutely critical in the development of a new musical to hear how it’s working in front of a live audience.
 

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We have a unique opportunity to produce a series of three new musicals, in concert (without costumes or sets) at the Colony Theatre in Burbank.  But we need your help.  As much as we’d like to, we can’t bear the entire cost ourselves.  We must figure out how to meet our budget for actors, music directors, directors, stage managers, administrative staff, rehearsal space, and marketing and advertising.

We’re hoping to raise $15,000 to cover the cost of these three concert readings.  Can you help?

About the Shows

About the Series

Monday, February 18
TWICE TOLD TALES
by William Berry, Bill Johnson, Kellen Blair, Ed Martel, Clay Zambo, Nick DeGregorio, and Scott Guy
Four one act musicals based on short stories by America's greatest writers: The Ransom of Red Chief by O.Henry, The Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain, Dr. Heidegger's Experiment by Nathanial Hawthorne, and The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe.

Monday, March 3
40 IS THE NEW 15
by Larry Todd Johnson and Cindy O'Connor
 Fortysomethings look back to when they were fifteen and wonder if they’d known then what they know now, would it have made any difference?

Monday, April 28
BONNIE and CLYDE: A Folk Tale
by Hunter Foster and Rick Crom
America's most romantic gangsters outwit and outrun a relentless (but always ladylike) J. Edgar Hoover to the delight of the poor and downtrodden.  Funny, tuneful, and historically dubious, "Bonnie and Clyde: A Folk Tale" is a good ol' musical about the bad ol' days.

(Titles are subject to change)

8:00pm
The Colony Theatre
Burbank
$10

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The Endowment Fund

In the fall of 2006, ANMT launched a campaign to build an Endowment Fund.

The intention of the Fund is to place a fund with the California Foundation for the Arts (minimum of $25,000) which they would manage until the fund grows enough to be used to purchase a building.

In the meantime, any interest from the fund will be used to help support the salaries necessary to keep ANMT operating.


 

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