• THE EVALUATION PROGRAM
  
  Writers and composers are invited to submit their shows to NMTN's Evaluation Program, which for more than two decades has been providing the creators of new musicals with quality feedback from professional theater directors, choreographers, and musical directors.
  
  Each submission receives two comprehensive written assessments - NMTN's Evaluation Report - prepared by individual members of our Evaluation Committee (comprised of working theater directors, choreographers and music directors). These reports, unique in the industry, provide detailed information and invaluable professional perspectives intended to aid and guide writers during their work's development process. The Evaluation Program will return your musical or opera, with two completed Evaluation Reports, within two months of receipt.
  
  Submissions that are considered "market ready" and possess a requisite quality may be nominated for the awards administered by NMTN, for inclusion in the New York Musical Theatre Festival and for presentations by NMTN's affiliates. To be considered for these opportunities, your submissions to the Evaluation Program must be received by May 1, 2008.
  
  

  Download NMTN's Evaluation Program Submission Form

  
  
• THE NEW YORK MUSICAL THEATRE FESTIVAL
  "It's not a revival - It's a revolution!"
  
  An annual fall event, NYMF presents more than thirty full-length, fully-produced new musicals during a three-week period in New York's famed theatre district. These wonderful new shows feature some of the finest professional actor-singers in New York's unparalleled talent pool.
  
  AWARDS
  DIRECTORS' CHOICE AWARDS (DCAs)
  Each year, three works from the Evaluation Prgoram are chosen to receive DCAs, partially subsidized readings at the New York Musical Theatre Festival.
  
  TAM AWARD
  Originated by Mae Richard, founder of the Theater for the American Musical, the TAM Award is presented to the musical in the NEw York Musical Theatre Festival which best exemplifies the qualities of the musicals in Broadway's Golden Age: good "book musicals" with songs taht move the drama along.
  

In addition to the Evaluation Program and NYMF, NMTN is actively developing two new programs designed to expand the reach of our already-established programs and bolster local live performance art throughout the United States:

• BroadwayUSA!
  In communities around the USA, NMTN aims to organize centrally coordinated but locally-produced festivals featuring concert or staged presentations of award-winning new musicals. The goal of the program is to expand the range of potential production opportunities for new quality musical while giving regional theatre-goers the all-too-rare opportunity to see and hear brand new works locally. Prototypes of this program were successfully produced in Chicago, Los Angeles, Palm Springs and Sarasota and generated independent productions of quite a few of the featured shows.
  
  
• CAMPUS MUSICALS
  Through this program, NMTN will work with university theatre departments and college student organizations, delivering one of NMTN's professional director-evaluators for a one-week residency culminating in a staged or concert performance of a DCA-winning new musical. Students will have a month to prepare for the one-week residency and will benefirt from the experience of developing a "new work" and working with a professional artist from New York's theatre community.