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Prize Name: The Directors' Choice Awards (The DCAs) Renamed in 2005, the Directors' Choice Awards were launched at NMTN's founding 23 years ago to highlight the best works submitted to NMTN's Evaluation Program, which enables the creators of new musicals to receive objective and constructive critiques of their new musicals by professional directors, regardless of their proximity to New York or their connection to the professional theatrical community. In the first of the three step process of critical review, NMTN Evaluators (all of whom are professional musical theatre directors) read every word of every submitted script and listen to every note of music. They then fill out extensive Evaluation Reports which are copied and returned to the creative teams. These valuable reports contain comprehensive reactions to the material and helpful, objective hints for improvement. Works cited as having superior quality are tracked through two additional stages of competitive review. Ultimately, each DCA recipient will have been thoroughly evaluated by between 8 and 10 professional directors, as well as a celebrity Guest Artistic Director. Up to three DCA winners are selected from this program each year, with each receiving a cash prize of $1000 toward a presentation of the work at the New York Musical Theatre Festival. In addition, DCA recipients are eligible to participate in NMTN's prospective regional performance program, BroadwayUSA! The 2006 DCA recipients will be chosen from among the works submitted to NMTN's Evaluation Program prior to the opening of the NYMF submission window (January 9th, 2006) as well as from the works selected by NYMF for its 2006 Festival. The Evaluation Program will be relaunched after the NYMF submission window closes (on March 17th) as part of a coordinated submissions process for all of NMTN's programs.
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National Music Theater Network has recently adopted the programs of a wonderful sister organization with more than twenty proud years of experience nurturing emerging musical theater creators: The Theatre for the American Musical. NMTN will be incorporating TAM's flagship awards program into its program roster. TAM founder Mae Richard, the lyricist, joins NMTN as a director and artistic advisor; she will help oversee the TAM Award from her new perch. TAM Award Mission Statement:
The TAM Award seeks to identify and honor new musicals that exemplify
the best characteristics of the traditional American musical; whose
lyrics, music and book advance the story, and/or stand alone; and
in performance are easily understood no matter what the genre, (be
it My Fair Lady,Guys and Dolls, The Full Monty or Avenue Q).
Submission Process: January 10th - March 10th, 2006.
Online Only
Works submitted to the Next
Link Project of the New York Musical Theatre Festival are eligible.
Winner will be selected from among the NYMF presentations by a committee of top tier professionals. Prize amount to be bestowed at award ceremony in late fall 2006: $1000.00 |
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For more information about these award programs, contact NMTN.
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"The New Voices Prize is truly a generous and appropriate award
I can only think of how much this would have helped us back when
we needed it, and how useful it will be for young writers in the future." Jeff Marx, author of AVENUE Q |