About NOMTI
The New Opera and Musical Theater Initiative (NOMTI) is a group of musical theater writers who support each other in creating high-quality new works for musical theater. We are a not-for-profit arts organization incorporated in Massachusetts, governed by a volunteer board of directors. The public can see NOMTI's Massachusetts annual corporate filings here and our Form PC here. As we are very small, we file only the 990-N (e-postcard) with the IRS.
Day-to-day management of NOMTI is handled by a committee of three facilitators, who are also members of the Board. They run the Advanced Writers Lab (overseeing admissions, scheduling, hiring actors and monitoring feedback), teach the occasional seminar, and keep us legal.
The Advanced Writers Lab is a peer feedback and craft-building group open to a limited number of experienced book-writers, composers and lyricists. Applications are accepted throughout the year. The Advanced Writers Lab has been in operation since 2007. A list of members is available here.
NOMTI-Greenroom is NOMTI's yahoo group, providing online community and educational resources. It is open to New England musical theater writers of all levels. Please email NOMTIstaff@gmail.com if you would like to participate. Members share opportunities, information and insights related to writing for musical theater. We also post NOMTI-developed resources in the files section.
Past Programs
From time to time, NOMTI's facilitators present an intensive two-day instructional seminar covering the most critical elements of writing for musical theater. This is open to writers at all levels and is recommended for writers planning to apply to the Advanced Writers Lab. The Seminar was last presented in 2010.
In its early years, NOMTI also sponsored annual staged readings of new work under the names Open Call Festival of New Works and Birth of a Musical. These were discontinued because the work of producing was felt to be outside our central mission of supporting the writing process.
The evening workshop that met for several years was discontinued after May 2007, replaced by the Advanced Writers Lab.
Day-to-day management of NOMTI is handled by a committee of three facilitators, who are also members of the Board. They run the Advanced Writers Lab (overseeing admissions, scheduling, hiring actors and monitoring feedback), teach the occasional seminar, and keep us legal.
The Advanced Writers Lab is a peer feedback and craft-building group open to a limited number of experienced book-writers, composers and lyricists. Applications are accepted throughout the year. The Advanced Writers Lab has been in operation since 2007. A list of members is available here.
NOMTI-Greenroom is NOMTI's yahoo group, providing online community and educational resources. It is open to New England musical theater writers of all levels. Please email NOMTIstaff@gmail.com if you would like to participate. Members share opportunities, information and insights related to writing for musical theater. We also post NOMTI-developed resources in the files section.
Past Programs
From time to time, NOMTI's facilitators present an intensive two-day instructional seminar covering the most critical elements of writing for musical theater. This is open to writers at all levels and is recommended for writers planning to apply to the Advanced Writers Lab. The Seminar was last presented in 2010.
In its early years, NOMTI also sponsored annual staged readings of new work under the names Open Call Festival of New Works and Birth of a Musical. These were discontinued because the work of producing was felt to be outside our central mission of supporting the writing process.
The evening workshop that met for several years was discontinued after May 2007, replaced by the Advanced Writers Lab.