What a Submission Season!
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It's June at NAMT and that means we've fully wrapped an entire year of submissions for The 36th Annual Festival of New Musicals, The Musical Theater Songwriting Challenge for High School Students and the latest cycle of the Frank Young Fund for New Musicals Production, Project Development & Writers Residency Grants!
Hello to our new readers! We hope you'll find the resources and information below helpful as a creator of new musicals, whether as a writer, producer, director, musician or any other person in the room.
You are now part of a massive network. For the first time ever, over 1,000 writers submitted to the Festival in a single year. Our Festival Committee grew as well, so much so that we outgrew our conference room hosting our in-person selection meeting in NYC! I sure hope that's a sign of what's to come at the Festival this October! 139 student songwriters covering 34 states also entered the chat this year for the new-at-NAMT Songwriting Challenge, and I'm thrilled to tell you that we'll announce the submissions opening date for next year's Challenge at our upcoming concert celebrating this year's winners. Not to mention, we're adding to our pool of Grantee Artists & Organizations all the time and doubling down on the potential connections between writers and the nearly 200 Organizational & Independent Producers of the NAMT Membership and their staffs including Marketing teams, Development teams, Production crew, Managers and Creatives.
You're in the right spot, so stick with us. With the numbers above, of course it's easy to feel like the competition is overwhelming and the opportunities are few. But, it's your sense of drive and passion that has brought you to this hub of likeminded artists and producers. So, I encourage you to keep following that instinct -- you're doing the right thing! Take advantage of the info in here and attend an online or in-person NAMT event, reach out to each other, and seek out the upcoming submissions below or implement other ideas you read here to bring impact, attention and resources to the work you create.
Happy Summer,
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Frankie Dailey
New Works Director
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Musical theater fans will have the chance to see these fully orchestrated arrangements performed by Broadway artists such as Telly Leung, Desi Oakley, and Shereen Pimentel, during Challenge Accepted! A Concert Presenting the Winners of the Musical Theater Songwriting Challenge for High School Students on June 17 at 7 p.m. ET at the Irene Diamond Stage at the Pershing Square Signature Center in New York City. The concert will also be available through a livestream at arts.gov/songwriting and namt.org/challenge.
The winning songwriters—one duo and six individuals—were selected by a panel of leaders including NAMT Members & Artists in the musical theater field from more than 100 submissions and hail from seven states:
Gwendellyn Doerfler (Dewitt, MI)
Ale Fonseca (Miami, FL)
Sydney Gray (Fairhope, AL)
Tabitha Moore (Valley Stream, NY)
Isabella Nguyen & Maya Johnson (Little Rock, AR)
Luisa Paraguassu (Mooresville, NC)
Owen Yeh-Lee (Palo Alto, CA)
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Each winning song was professionally orchestrated by a team that included:
Music Supervisor Dylan Glatthorn (Fest '22)
Music Director & Orchestrator Anessa Marie
Orchestrator Teresa Lotz
Orchestrator Jesse J. Sanchez (FYFNM '23)
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| The 2024 mentors coaching the students about process, technique, and production are:
Joey Contreras
Timothy Huang (Fest '15)
Zeniba Now
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At the June 17 concert, each winning songwriter and their mentor will introduce songs, which will then be performed by a cast featuring:
Senzel Ahmady (Tour: Aladdin), Dominic Dorset (Tour: Frozen), Timothy Huang (Costs of Living, NAMT Fest '15), Amy Keum (KPOP), Ashley LaLonde (Tour: Hamilton), Telly Leung (Allegiance, Godspell), Desi Oakley (West End: Waitress), Stephanie Machado (CBS: Evil), Katryna Marttala (Hot Girls Write Musicals), Zeniba Now (2024 Woman to Watch on Broadway) & Shereen Pimentel (West Side Story).
In addition, all of the winning songs will be compiled into a songbook and print-at-home edition by Concord Theatricals and released at a future date. The 2023-2024 Musical Theater Songwriting Challenge is held in collaboration with Concord Theatricals, Disney Theatrical Productions, and NMPA S.O.N.G.S. Foundation.
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New Music Added: NAMT Playlists Updated!
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NAMT Staff is thrilled to reveal the official NAMT Spotify Playlists. Be sure to click below or launch the Spotify app and follow the National Alliance for Musical Theatre for regular playlist updates to keep you entertained and inspired! Both playlists are curated by NAMT Staff for producers, artists and MT fans to bring new musical magic to life anytime you like!
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| Check out updates on NAMT+, featuring NAMT Festival, Grantee & Challenge Artists, this month including Zeniba Now, Alphonso Horne, Owen Kai, Ross Baum, Timothy Huang and more!
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| | New updates for ELEVATE, featuring new musical work by Femme+ voices, this month including Bonnie Gleicher, Ale Fonseca, Grace McLean, Lynne Shankel and more!
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| Lunchtime Listen: Guest Artist Playlist by Dylan Glatthorn
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Take a break and listen to a NAMT Guest Artist Playlist—this month from Songwriting Challenge Music Supervisor Dylan Glatthorn (Fest '22). Warning: these tunes may illicit random Goosebumps, Tears or Stank-Face... which is exactly as intended. Genres: Musical Theatre, Rock, Second Line, Big Band, Country, Americana, Indie Rock, Alt Rock, Pop, Jazz. Read more from Dylan below:
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YOUR INFLUENCES ARE SHOWING: What's a song that had a big influence on your writing?
"Hell" - I love almost anything that has a deep New Orleans Second Line groove and this track was my gateway drug into it. In "Lickety-Split"—a song I wrote with Diana DeGarmo and the very next song on the playlist—it's pretty clear that I haven't strayed too far from my influences!
5,6,7,8... AGAIN: Which song gets a replay every single time?
"Your Best American Girl" - I remember finding this song on a long bus trip a few years ago. I proceeded to listen to it over and over for the rest of the ride and haven't really stopped since. Something about it hits the exact right spot for me—it's emotional, explosive, and catchy as hell.
CURTAIN CALL: Give a shout out to the song that closes your playlist. Why does this track get the final bow?
"Another Winter in a Summer Town" - Right off the coast of Rhode Island—just a dot in the Atlantic—sits the tiny community of Block Island. My family and I are lucky to spend a week there almost every year, and each year as we climb aboard the ferry back to the mainland, I fire up this song and pass my wife one of my ear buds. It's a masterpiece that is the perfect example of showing not telling, and it beautifully captures the feeling of the end of a season, a project, a journey.
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Want to add to this listing? Spot an error or old info? Reach out to us at newworks@namt.org.
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Pearl Studios is the official rehearsal studio for the NAMT Festival of New Musicals, and we're excited to partner with them again this year for our 36th Anniversary. Pearl Studios is conveniently located in Midtown Manhattan on 8th Avenue between 35th & 36th Streets, and offers two floors of clean, bright and flexible rooms fit for all your rehearsal needs. For bookings, call 212-904-1850 or email contactus@pearlstudiosnyc.com.
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