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Upcoming Events

April 24, 2:00 pm ET – Webinar

Impact & Exploration Grant Info Session

Learn more about NAMT’s Impact & Exploration Fund Grant, including details and tips about the application process.

May 10, 2:00 pm ET – Webinar

Writers Residency Grant Info Session

Learn more about NAMT’s Writers Residency Grant – we’ll specifically step through the entire application, discuss tips & tricks, and we’ll talk more about the selection considerations. (NAMT Members Only)

October 22 - 23, 2024

Fall Conference 2024

Save the Dates!

NYC and Online

Maybe the most important musical theatre networking event of the year, the Fall Conference explores the most pressing issues around new work production and development, as well as the state of the industry more broadly. Just as importantly, it provides a community for leaders of theatres from all over the country and the world to share best practices, brainstorm and support one another.

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October 24 - 25, 2024

36th Annual Festival of New Musicals

New World Stages, 340 W 50th Street, New York, NY

The 36th Annual Festival of New Musicals will be presented at New World Stages in New York City on October 24 and 25, 2024. Save the dates!

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What Is NAMT?

NAMT is a not-for-profit organization serving the musical theatre community. We strive every day to nurture a musical theatre canon that reflects and celebrates the rich diversity of our nation and the world. More

High School Songwriting Challenge

Musical Theater Songwriting Challenge for High School Students

The Musical Theater Songwriting Challenge is an opportunity for high school students all across the country to develop and showcase musical compositions that could be part of a musical theater production. More

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Members at the 2017 Spring Conference at the Hollywood Pantages.

New Musicals Map

The New Musicals Map can be used to discover, follow and learn more about new musicals in development all over the world. More

Set & Costume Registry

Search NAMT members' stocks for sets, costumes and props available for rent for your production More

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Learn about the many ways to support NAMT's mission to nurture the creation, development and production of new musicals. More

Lizard Boy (Festival 2020) at Seattle Rep. Photo by Kevin Berne.

Upcoming Events

April 24, 2:00 pm ET

Impact & Exploration Grant Info Session

Learn more about NAMT’s Impact & Exploration Fund Grant, including details and tips about the application process.

May 10, 2:00 pm ET

Writers Residency Grant Info Session

October 22 - 23, 2024

Fall Conference 2024

Save the Dates!

NYC and Online

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NAMT News

March 29, 2024

For the Early Careers: An Observer’s Overture with Irvin Mason Jr.

As school bells rang through the halls, we caught up with high school teacher and NAMT Observership alum for Early Career Directors, Irvin Mason Jr., during his free period to ask… what does it mean to be “emerging” anyway? Irvin was participant in the 2022 Festival of New Musical Observership for Early Career Directors for PUP: A CHEW STORY by Marcus Terrell Smith & Robin Schäfer.

February 14, 2024

Announcing the 2023/2024 Writers Residency Grant Recipients!

The National Alliance for Musical Theatre (Betsy King Militello, Executive Director) has announced the NAMT Member Theatre and Writer Recipients for the 2023/2024 Writers Residency Grants, part of the Frank Young Fund for New Musicals. The Frank Young Fund is a major funding program to support the development and production of new musicals. Writers Residency Grants encourage collaborations between NAMT Member theatres and writers at the earliest stages of a project.

December 14, 2023

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Press Play on Dreams: A Listening Party with Jesse J. Sanchez

Only weeks after the debut of his first musical’s concept EP, and fresh from the first read-through of his even newer show, two-time Frank Young Fund for New Musicals Grantee Jesse J. Sanchez not only tunes in with us, but also turns up the volume on his creative spirit. Pop in your headphones! Join us for a jam session and a journey through the heart of storytelling. Find out why when Jesse plays, the world listens.

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