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The Academy for New Musical Theatre is committed to an ongoing search to find and nurture promising new musical theatre. 

If you've written a musical, and you would like some honest, constructive, detailed feedback on how to make your musical better, you can submit your musical to ANMT for dramaturgical feedback at levels from evaluation to analysis to table reading to workshop to concert reading.

All musicals submitted to ANMT, at any level, are automatically entered in the annual Search for New Musicals.  The winner of the Search receives a workshop with the Academy Repertory Company, detailed feedback from the ANMT staff, and a concert reading in Los Angeles.

Note:  There are fees attached to all of the levels of development available through ANMT.  The entry level is $100 for a 3-5 page Script Overview; the next level is an in-depth Analysis for $400.  We know that some writers do not feel that there should be fees attached to script submissions, but our feeling is that the fee is for the Script Overview, and the entry into the Search is a side benefit.  If you are submitting your musical ONLY because you want to win a contest, then the Search probably isn't right for you.  Writers who will benefit most from the Search are those who are primarily looking for feedback that will help them revise their show to be the best that it can be.

Here is some feedback from writers about their Search Script Overview:

"We are so grateful for your thoroughness and the insight of your comments. Your report has given us a fresh approach to the project."

"I’ve never received a more cogent and useable evaluation before. I’m very comfortable with the critique process but I have never finished reading a critique/evaluation with as much desire and energy to go to work on and polish a piece."

"Thanks for the fantastic feedback that you provided on the evaluation.  It sounds like you really understood my vision for the show more than many of the people I've shown it to."

"The critique was spot on.  I would say that the work that you are doing is the most helpful I have ever received from any arts organization.  I only wish that more organizations were able to do as much for the field of musical theater.  I think that your entire approach is great, serving a wide number of artists at many different levels in their careers.  An incredible process really."

"I thought the critique was very thorough, thoughtful, and encouraging, and it inspired many new ways of thinking about my project."

"I found the feedback extremely helpful. It was thoughtful, thorough and very supportive. This is the first time I have attempted to write the music, lyrics and book and your comments have re-energized me and I am currently hard at work on a second draft of my piece. Thank you so much!"

To view the results of the 2008 Search, CLICK HERE.

Submit your musical to ANMT...

NEW SUBMISSION

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and writers for the project:

(If you are already in our database, we may be able to save you the time of entering all your contact info.)

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Bookwriter Email:     

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EXISTING SUBMISSION

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"I couldn't be more impressed with the folks at ANMT.  They are dramaturgs, coaches, and teachers of the greatest, highest caliber.  The feedback they'll offer you on your work is astonishingly insightful and detailed.  I was amazed to find this level of professionalism and intelligence about musical theater outside of NYC.  You can take or leave, of course, anything they say, but when they critiqued a project I wrote there, I found 90% of their feedback right on the money and incredibly helpful, and the project I was working on there grew by leaps and bounds because of their input.  I highly, highly recommend getting their input on your new musical projects.  Their teeth are sharp as sharks', but they don't bite. "

- Jeff Marx, Tony award-winning co-creator of Avenue Q

 

"I recently had the pleasure of working with The Academy for New Musical Theatre on a reading of The Grouch’s Daughter, my new musical co-written with Jack Helbig.  ANMT staff member Elise Dewsberry served as both dramaturg and director, and in our years of working on this show, no one person has been as helpful to us as she was.  Prior to the reading, we received a set of notes that were as thoughtful as they were thorough.  ANMT’s suggestions led to a rewrite that greatly helped us shape the show and refine its style.  I'm deeply impressed with the care and intelligence of their creative input, and would not hesitate to work with ANMT again."

- Mark Hollmann, Tony award-winning composer of Urinetown

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