Open Seminar in Writing Musical Theater
About NOMTI's Advanced Writers Lab
The Advanced Writers Lab is a peer feedback group open to a limited number of experienced bookwriters, composers and lyricists working actively on a project.The Lab meets on the third Saturday of every month, 9:30am - 1pm, at Berklee College of Music, room B-16. The first meeting will be on Saturday, September 15.
Please note that the submissions for the 2007 Lab are closed. Submissions will reopen summer 2008. Other submission dates may be announced as space becomes available.
- Monthly attendance year-round expected
- Monthly presentation of new work encouraged; a minimum of three presentations per year expected
- Up to four singers provided per sessions
The annual fee of $100 admits either a single project with all of its collaborating writers or a single writer who may present material from more than one project.
Application requirements
Send Application Form with following supplemental materials:
1. Resume with list of works for musical theater/opera, including production history. Minimum expectation is a public staged reading of a full-length piece.
2. Varied sample of your past or current musical theater work
Lyricists/composers:
-- 3 selections with recordings
-- short context provided for each song
-- printed lyrics (for lyricists)
-- printed score (for composers)Bookwriters/librettists
-- synopsis
-- 20-30 page excerpt3. Short synopsis of the project you propose to work on in the lab, including a one-sentence summary of what your piece is about
4. A brief statement explaining how you are prepared for an advanced laboratory
5. A brief statement explaining what you hope to accomplish during the coming year
Submission requirementsSubmissions for the lab are presently closed. The Lab will open for submissions again summer 2008. Other submission dates may be announced as openings become available. Again, the first meeting will be on Saturday, September 15, 2007.
Mail submissions to:
Michael Wartofsky
Faculty Box 410
Berklee College of Music
1140 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02215Applications will be reviewed by representatives from the NOMTI Board. The clearest sense of NOMTI's admissions criteria can be obtained by attending the Open Seminar in Writing Musical Theater. NOMTI recommends that aspiring writers become thoroughly familiar with a majority of the books listed on our Resources page.
Questions, please email: mwartofsky "at" nomti.org
Directions to Berklee meeting space:Room B16. Enter Berklee at the 150 Massachusetts Ave. entrance. Go down the stairs. Turn left, and go down the stairs again. Bear left, walking along a corridor lined with lockers. Go through the black door, past the elevator, and turn right. B-16 is at the end off the hallway on the left.
T stop: Hynes Convention Center
Parking: On-street parking is extemely limited. Allow at least 30 minutes to find a space (meters in effect through 8pm, 25c for each 15 minutes). Or park at any of the adjacent lots (on Hemenway or Boylston or on Dalton Street between Boylston and Scotia).
