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The Academy for New Musical Theatre supports a wide array of programs designed to further the artistic creation of new works for the musical stage. Programs offered include: More Opportunities for Performers
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Where to begin at ANMT: Experienced writers and novice writers begin here, concentrating on the unique vocabulary and collaborative process of creating new musical theatre. ANMT’s exciting full-year curriculum takes you from blank page to stage in nine months. Along the way you’ll study and write charm songs, ballads, duets, ensemble pieces, musical scenes, plus, you’ll have a production of your original 15-minute-musical in a professional theatre in Los Angeles. Additional “lab” sessions focus on the specific tools you will use when you write your full-length musicals: adaptation, rhyme, structure, music notation, style, spotting songs, prosody, character through diction, progression, popular music vs. theatre music, plays vs. musical books, etc (see more details in Lab section) You’ll write something new - with a different collaborator - every month, and you’ll get direct, immediate, and honest feedback from the ANMT staff. 15-Minute Musicals Your final piece is a 15-minute musical, which ANMT casts, directs, rehearses and produces for you. It’s a very intense and memorable experience. You’ll write an original show for five specific actors, and over the course of eight very active weeks, you’ll write an outline and three drafts, receiving readings and feedback at every step of the way, before your script is launched into production. |
ANMT’s Core Curriculum is run by internationally-acclaimed John Sparks, who has conducted workshops in Los Angeles and Chicago for thirty-five years, with support from Elise Dewsberry, who for ten years ran Toronto’s renowned Script Lab. Lab instructors include Director of Music Curriculum Ross Källing, and multiple Emmy-nominated Scott Guy, whose musicals have been seen in Chicago, London, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and beyond.
"John Sparks is a wonderful teacher and was a real help to me. I still think about things he said in that workshop. He's a real boon to people writing musicals." Mark Hollmann Tony Award-winning composer, Urinetown |
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ANMT Members who have successfully completed the Core Curriculum, Labs, and 15-Minute Musical, may choose to spend a season working on a one-act musical under a set of rigorous deadlines. The 2006-07 One-Acts were workshopped through the Academy Repertory Company, and also with the students at Millikin University in Illinois. Final presentations took place at the Colony Theatre in Burbank in June. Plans are in the works to partner with more university groups for the 2007-08 One-Acts. |
Pre-requisite: successful completion of the Core Curriculum and One Lab |
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Pre-requisite: successful completion of the Core Curriculum and one Lab |
Full Length Curriculum ANMT Members who have successfully completed the Core Curriculum, Labs, and 15-Minute Musical, may choose to spend a season working on a full-length musical under a set of rigorous deadlines. We give writers nine-months to go from initial idea to first draft, guiding them at every step of the way. Before any songs are written, the collaborative team submits an idea for approval, and then the staff leads the project through a series of increasingly-detailed outlines. Once the outline is approved (which sometimes takes several drafts), writing teams begin presenting songs and scenes in structured, twice-monthly workshops. Teams which complete a full first draft of their musical by mid-April receive the greenlight for a lightly rehearsed reading and staff assessment as part of the annual 1000 Minutes of Musical Theatre. | ||
