Frank Young Fund Past Recipients
2024-2025
Production Grants
Aurora Theatre (Lawrenceville, GA) for King of Pangea (Fest ’22) by Martin Storrow
Diversionary Theatre (San Diego, CA) for TL;DR: Thelma Louise; Dyke Remix (Fest ’21) by EllaRose Chary and Brandon James Gwinn
Goodspeed Musicals (East Haddam, CT) for Little Miss Perfect by Joriah Kwamé
Olney Theatre Center (Olney, MD) for Long Way Down by Dahlak Brathwaite and Khiyon Hursey
Philadelphia Theatre Company (Philadelphia, PA) for Night Side Songs by Daniel Lazour and Patrick Lazour
TheatreWorks Silicon Valley (Redwood City, CA) in partnership with Center Repertory Company (Walnut Creek, CA) for Happy Pleasant Valley: A Senior Sex Scandal Murder Mystery Musical by Min Kahng
Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre (Chicago, IL) for Never Better by Preston Max Allen
Project Development Grants
Ars Nova (New York, NY) for Satellites by Zack Zadek
La Jolla Playhouse (La Jolla, CA) for Untitled Quiet Project by Sam Chanse, MILCK (AKA Connie Lim), AG (AKA Adrianne Gonzalez) and Jess McLeod
MCC Theater (New York, NY) for MISS STEP by Melissa Li and Kit Yan
Prospect Musicals (New York, NY) for The Oscar Micheaux Project (Fest ’23) by Alphonso Horne, Jesse L. Kearney, Jr., Peter Mills and Cara Reichel
Writers Residency Grants
To be announced in January 2025.
2023-2024
Production Grants
Ars Nova (New York, NY) for (pray) by nicHi Douglas, S T A R R Busby and Tariq Al-Sabir
Atlantic Theater Company (New York, NY) for Days of Wine and Roses by Adam Guettel, with funding from the ASCAP Foundation Irving Caesar Fund
Constellation Stage + Screen (Bloomington, IN) for The Moon & The Sea by Douglas Lyons and Creighton Irons, with funding from The Hollywood Pantages, a Nederlander Organization
La Jolla Playhouse (La Jolla, CA) for Redwood by Tina Landau, Kate Diaz and Idina Menzel
Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma (Oklahoma City, OK) for King of Pangaea by Martin Storrow (Fest ’22), with funding from The Hollywood Pantages, a Nederlander Organization
The Musical Stage Company Foundation (Ann Arbor, MI) for KELLY v. KELLY by Britta Johnson and Sara Farb
Prospect Theater Company (New York, NY) for Lizard Boy by Justin Huertas (Fest ’20), with funding from The Hollywood Pantages, a Nederlander Organization
Seattle Rep (Seattle, WA) for Lydia and the Troll by Justin Huertas (Fest ’20)
Project Development Grants
The 5th Avenue Theatre (Seattle, WA) for Yoko’s Husband’s Killer’s Japanese Wife, Gloria by Erika Ji, Clare Fuyuko Bierman and Brandy Hoang Collier
Diversionary Theatre (San Diego, CA) for TL;DR: Thelma Louise; Dyke Remix (Fest ’21) by EllaRose Chary & Brandon James Gwinn
Philadelphia Theatre Company (Philadelphia, PA) for Macbeth in Stride by Whitney White
Theater Latté Da (Minneapolis, MN) for The Legend of La Llorona: A Zarzuela of La Frontera by Celeste Moreno
Writers Residency Grants
The 5th Avenue Theatre (Seattle, WA) for Emerald Jett by SassyBlack
Ars Nova (New York, NY) for Elsewhere by Wesley Olivier AKA Klondyke
La Jolla Playhouse (La Jolla, CA) for UNTITLED MILCK PROJECT by Sam Chanse, MILCK (Connie K. Lim) and Adrianne Gonzalez
Live & In Color (New York, NY) for We Start in Manhattan: A New Queer Musical by Sav Souza & Ariella Serur
The Morrison Center (Boise, ID) for Take Two (Working Title) by Leta Harris Neustaedter
New York Theatre Barn (New York, NY) for SKYWARD: An Ending Elegy by Truth Future Bachman
Olney Theatre Center for the Arts (Olney, MD) for Built for This by Kira Stone & Lauren Gunderson
Playwrights Horizons (New York, NY) for Mother, Tree by Kuhoo Verma
ZACH Theatre (Austin, TX) for Zapata: A Superhero Folklórico Musical by Jesse J. Sanchez
2022-2023
Production Grants
Diversionary Theatre + East West Players (San Diego, CA) for On This Side of the World by Paulo K. Tiról
Philadelphia Theatre Company (Philadeplhia, PA) for The Tattooed Lady by Max Vernon
Project Development Grants
Ars Nova (New York, NY) for The Ramayan by Manik Choksi
CCAE (Escondido, CA) for Bottle Shock by James D Sasser & Charles Vincent Burwell
New York Theatre Barn (New York, NY) for HOW TO YOU: A Musical Guide to Black Boyhood by Joriah Kwamé
Seattle Rep (Seattle, WA) for Here and Their by Jasmine Joshua & Heather Ragusa
Village Theatre (Issaquah, WA) for Eastbound by Cheeyang Ng & Khiyon Hursey
Writers Residency Grants
Ars Nova (New York, NY) for Travels by James Harrison Monaco
Diversionary Theatre (San Diego, CA) for Queer. People. Time. by EllaRose Chary & Brandon James Gwinn
East West Players (Los Angeles, CA) for Proud Mary’s by Jennifer Paz
Goodspeed Musicals (East Haddam, CT) for Little Miss Perfect by Joriah Kwamé
Playwrights Horizons (New York, NY) for Black Girl in Paris by AriDy Nox & Jacinth Greywoode
Seattle Rep (Seattle, WA) for 🐦+🦀 (BIRD + CRAB) by Jessica Huang, Fernando Diaz and Florencia Iriondo
Theater Latté Da (Minneapolis, MN) for The Legend of La Llorona: A Zarzuela of La Frontera by Celeste Moreno
TheatreWorks Silicon Valley (Palo Alto, CA) for How to Build a Revolution by Lynn Rosen, Pia Wilson and Paula Cole
2021-2022
Production Grants
Ars Nova (New York, NY) for Oratorio for Living Things by Heather Christian.
Diversionary Theatre Productions (San Diego, CA) for Eighty-Sixed by Sam Salmond and Jeremy J. King.
Goodspeed Musicals (East Haddam, CT) for Anne of Green Gables by Matte O’Brien and Matt Vinso.
Project Development Grants
Amas Musical Theatre (New York, NY) for MĀYĀ by Cheeyang Ng and Eric Sorrels. Ng is a Festival alum for Eastbound (‘Fest 20).
Live & In Color (New York, NY) for Within Elsewhere by Joshua Betancourt and Trent Jeffords.
New York Theatre Barn (New York, NY) for Sueños: Our American Musical by Jesse Sanchez and Jeff Chambers.
Olney Theatre Center (Olney, MD) for Lautrec at the St. James by Julianne Wick Davis and John Dietrich. Lautrec at the St. James was featured in NAMT’s 2019 Festival of New Musicals.
Porchlight Music Theatre (Chicago, IL) for an unannounced project.
Seattle Rep (Seattle, WA) for an unannounced project.
Theatre Now New York (New York, NY) for The Jury by Jonathan Bauerfield and Casey Kendall.
Writers Residency Grants
11th Hour Theatre (Philadelphia, PA) for Bordello by Barbara Bellman & Emilliano Messiez.
Atlantic Theater Company (New York, NY) for Dream Empire by Tom Donaghy & Emily Gardner Xu Hall.
Goodspeed Musicals (East Haddam, CT) for an untitled piece by Grace McLean.
New York Theatre Barn (New York, NY) for The Helena Project by Debra Barsha & Sheilah Rae.
Olney Theatre Center (Olney, MD) for OKUNI by Naomi Iizuka & Paul Hodge.
Philadelphia Theatre Company (Philadelphia, PA) for Dear Shirley by Kristen Bair & Kevin Hammonds.
The Public Theater (New York, NY) for The Storyteller by K’naan Warsame.
TheatreWorks Silicon Valley (Palo Alto, CA) for Untitled Asian-American Senior Sex Scandal Murder Mystery Musical by Min Kahng.
Transport Group Theatre Company (New York, NY) for SPLIT by Michele Lowe & Zoe Sarnak.
Village Theatre (Issaquah, WA) for XY by Oliver Houser. XY was featured in the 2018 Festival of New Musicals.
2020-2021
Production Grants
Atlantic Theater Company (New York NY) for Kimberly Akimbo by David Lindsay-Abaire and Jeanine Tesori..
East West Players (Los Angeles, CA) for Interstate by Melissa Li and Kit Yan. Interstate was featured in NAMT’s 2019 Festival of New Musicals.
Olney Theatre Center (Olney, MD) for A.D. 16 by Bekah Brunstetter and Cinco Paul. A.D. 16 was featured in NAMT’s 2018 Festival of New Musicals.
Seattle Rep (Seattle, WA) for XY by Oliver Houser. XY was featured in NAMT’s 2018 Festival of New Musicals.
Project Development Grants
Ars Nova (New York, NY) for The Last Medicine Show by Sammy Miller & Kevin Armento.
Chicago Shakespeare Theater (Chicago, IL) for It Came from Outer Space by Joe Kinosian and Kellen Blair.
Music Theatre of Madison (Madison, WI) for Ten Days in A Madhouse by Karen Saari and Jennifer Hedstrom.
Playwrights Horizons (New York, NY) for Miss Step by Kit Yan and Melissa Li. Yan and Li and Festival alumni for Interstate (Fest ’19).
Prospect Theater Company (New York, NY) for Peter and the Wave by Timothy Huang. Huang is a Festival alum for American Morning (fka Costs of Living, Fest ’15)
Theatre Now New York (New York, NY) for Golem Owned A Tropical Smoothie by Ethan Crystal and Garrett Poladian.
Village Theatre (Issaquah, WA) for The Homefront by Jenny Stafford and Sam Salmond.
Writers Residency Grants
Ars Nova (New York, NY) for an untitled project by Zack Zadek.
Fine Arts Center Theatre Company (Colorado Springs, CO) for Everybody Welcome! by Samuel James.
New York Theatre Barn (New York, NY) for Wonder Boy by Jamie Jarrett.
Pittsburgh CLO (Pittsburgh, PA) for Hero by Nambi E. Kelley and Joe Plummer.
Seattle Rep (Seattle, WA) for Here and Their by Jasmine Joshua, Alexei Cifrese & Heather Ragusa.
Theater Latté Da (Minneapolis, MN) for The Mississippi Project by Harrison David Rivers (Fest ’15, The Last Queen of Canaan).
Theatre Now New York (New York, NY) for The Pelican by Dylan Glatthorn & Will Lacker.
Village Theatre (Issaquah, WA) for their Northwest Creator Residency Program, supporting Lex Marcos.
2019-2020
Production Grants
Ars Nova (New York, NY) for Oratorio for Living Things by Heather Christian.
Barrington Stage Company (Pittsfield, MA) for Fall Springs by Niko Tsakalakos and Peter Sinn Nachtrieb. Fall Springs was featured in NAMT’s 2017 Festival of New Musicals.
Finger Lakes Musical Theatre Festival (Auburn, NY) for Loch Ness, A New Musical by Marshall Pailet and A.D. Penedo. Pailet and Penedo are both Festival Alumni for The Chocolate Tree (Fest ’07).
Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma (Oklahoma City, OK) for Distant Thunder by Lynne Taylor-Corbett, Shaun Taylor-Corbett and Chris Wiseman.
Music Theatre of Madison (Madison, WI) for Hephaestus by Nathan Fosbinder.
Playwrights Horizons (New York, NY) for A Strange Loop by Michael R. Jackson.
The Public Theater (New York, NY) for Soft Power by David Henry Hwang and Jeanine Tesori. Soft Power was previously funded for a production at Center Theatre Group.
Project Development Grants
Diversionary Theatre (San Diego, CA) for Something Blue by Gordon Leary and Julia Meinwald. Leary and Meinwald are both NAMT Festival Alumni for Pregnancy Pact (Fest ’11) and The Loneliest Girl in the World (Fest ’16).
TheatreWorks Silicon Valley (Palo Alto, CA) for That’s Our Girl by Lynn Rosen, Kate Kilbane and Dan Moses.
Transport Theatre Group (New York, NY) for SPLIT by Michele Lowe and Zoe Sarnak.
Village Theatre (Issaquah, WA) for Hart Island by Michelle Elliot and Danny Haengil Larsen. Elliot and Larsen are both NAMT Festival Alumni for The Yellow Wood (Fest ’08).
Writers Residency Grants
11th Hour Theatre Company for Bordello by Barbara Bellman and Emilliano Messiez.
Atlantic Theater Company for Dream Empire by Tom Donaghy and Emily Gardner Xu Hall
Goodspeed Musicals for an untitled project by Grace McLean.
New York Theatre Barn for The Helena Project by Debra Barsha and Sheilah Rae.
Olney Theatre Center for OKUNI by Naomi Iizuka, Paul Hodge and Lisa Portes.
Philadelphia Theatre Company for Dear Shirley by Kristen Bair and Kevin Hammonds.
The Public Theater for The Storyteller by K’naan Warsame.
TheatreWorks Silicon Valley for Untitled Asian-American Senior Sex Scandal Murder Mystery Musical by Min Kahng.
Transport Group Theatre for Split by Michele Lowe & Zoe Sarnak.
Village Theatre for XY (Fest ’18) by Oliver Houser, developed with Hunter Bird. XY was featured in the 2018 Festival of New Musicals.
2018-2019
Production Grants
Atlantic Theater Company (New York, NY) for The Secret Life of Bees by Lynn Nottage, Susan Birkenhead and Duncan Sheik with funding from The Hollywood Pantages, a Nederlander organization. Sheik is a NAMT Festival Alumnus for Noir (Fest ’15).
Center Theatre Group (Los Angeles, CA) for Soft Power by David Henry Hwang and Jeanine Tesori with funding from The ASCAP Foundation Irving Caesar Fund.
Red Mountain Theatre Company (Birmingham, AL) for Sam’s Room by Dale Sampson, Trey Coates-Mitchell, Marc Campbell and Caitlin Marie Bell with funding from The Alhadeff Charitable Foundation. Sam’s Room was featured in NAMT’s 2017 Festival of New Musicals.
Theater Latté Da (Minneapolis, MN) for Five Points by Harrison David Rivers, Douglas Lyons and Ethan D. Pakchar. Rivers is a NAMT Festival Alumnus for The Last Queen of Canaan (Fest ’15).
Transport Theatre Group (New York, NY) for Renascence by Dick Scanlan and Carmel Dean with funding from The Hollywood Pantages, a Nederlander organization. Renascence previously received a Project Development Grant from the Frank Young Fund. Scanlan is a NAMT Festival Alumnus for Thoroughly Modern Millie (Fest ’96).
Project Development Grants
The Musical Stage Company (Toronto, ON) for Dr. Silver: A Celebration of Life by Anika Johnson and Britta Johnson, with funding provided to The Musical Stage Company Foundation with offices in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Playwrights Horizons (New York, NY) for Row by Dawn Landes and Daniel Goldstein.
Prospect Theater Company, Inc. (New York, NY) for Soldier’s Heart by Peter Mills and Cara Reichel. Mills is a NAMT Festival Alumnus for Onanov Broadway (fka Iron Curtain, Fest ’09); Mills and Reichel are both NAMT Festival Alumni for Golden Boy of the Blue Ridge (Fest ’11).
Writers Residency Grants
Ars Nova for DEFINITION by Whitney White.
Barrington Stage Company for Fall Springs by Niko Tsakalakos and Peter Sinn Nachtrieb. Fall Springs was featured in NAMT’s 2017 Festival of New Musicals.
Chicago Shakespeare Theater for The Monster by Michael Mahler, Chelsea Marcantel and Alan Schmuckler. Mahler and Schmuckler are both Festival Alumni for How Can You Run With A Shell On Your Back? (Fest ’09).
Goodspeed Musicals for Johnny and the Devil’s Box by Douglas Waterbury-Tieman.
Penn State Musical Theatre for The Lucky Boy by Kirsten Childs. Childs is a NAMT Festival Alumna for (Fest ’98, The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin (Fest ’98) and Funked Up Fairy Tales (Fest ’12).
Philadelphia Theatre Company for The Tattooed Lady by Max Vernon and Erin Courtney.
Pittsburgh CLO for Game On by Marcus Stevens and David Dabbon. Stevens is a NAMT Festival Alumnus for Mythic (fka Persephone, Fest ’17).
The Public Theater for Noise by César Alvarez.
SDSU MFA Musical Theatre Program for ‘Til Death Do Us Part by Bobby Cronin and Caroline Prugh.
University of Alabama at Birmingham for Savage by Tommy Newman and Jaime Lozano. Newman is a Festival Alumnus for Tinyard Hill (Fest ’07), Band Geeks! (Fest ’09) and Single Girls Guide (Fest ’13).
2017-2018
Production Grants
Ars Nova (New York, NY) for The Lucky Ones by Abigail Nessen Bengson, Shaun Bengson and Sarah Gancher with funding from The Hollywood Pantages, a Nederlander organization. The Lucky Ones also received a Writers Residency Grant from the Frank Young Fund for its development at Ars Nova.
Diversionary Theatre Productions (San Diego, CA) for The Loneliest Girl in the World by Julia Meinwald and Gordon Leary. The Loneliest Girl in the World was featured in the 2016 NAMT Festival of New Musicals. Meinwald and Leary are also Festival alumni for their 2011 Festival Show, Pregnancy Pact.
Goodspeed Musicals (East Haddam, CT) for Darling Grenadine by Daniel Zaitchik with funding from The Hollywood Pantages, a Nederlander organization. Darling Grenadine was featured in the 2017 Festival of New Musicals.
Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma (Oklahoma City, OK) for When We’re Gone (fka Mortality Play) by Scotty Arnold and Alana Jacoby with funding from The ASCAP Foundation Irving Caesar Fund. When We’re Gone was featured in the 2016 NAMT Festival.
TheatreWorks Silicon Valley (Palo Alto, CA) for The Four Immigrants: An American Musical Manga by Min Kahng. The Four Immigrants previously received a Writers Residency Grant from the Frank Young Fund for its development at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley.
Project Development Grants
Atlantic Theater Company (New York, NY) for This Ain’t No Disco by Stephen Trask, Peter Yanowitz and Rick Elice.
Chicago Shakespeare Theater (Chicago, IL) for Bedknobs & Broomsticks by Neil Bartram and Brian Hill, based upon the Walt Disney animated film. Bartram and Hill are NAMT Festival Alumni from their 2007 Festival show, The Story of My Life.
The Lark (New York, NY) for Sweethearts of Swing by Natalie Wilson and Kat Sherrell with funding from The Alhadeff Charitable Foundation.
Transport Group Theatre Company (New York, NY) for The Untitled Millay Project by Dick Scanlan and Carmel Dean. Scanlan is a NAMT Festival Alumnus from his 1996 Festival show, Thoroughly Modern Millie.
Writers Residency Grants
The 5th Avenue Theatre (Seattle, WA) for ’64 by Cheryl L. West, Douglas Lyons and Ethan Pakchar.
Ars Nova (New York, NY) for The Last Medicine Show by Kevin Armento and Sammy Miller.
Barrington Stage Company (Pittsfield, MA) for Butterflies by Kate Chadwick and Josh Freilich.
Goodspeed Musicals (East Haddam, CT) for Alice Bliss by Jenny Giering, Adam Gwon and Karen Hartman. Giering is a Festival alumna for Princess Caraboo (Fest ’05) and Gwon is an alumnus for Ordinary Days (Fest ’08), Bernice Bobs Her Hair (Fest ’11) and String (Fest ’14). Alice Bliss previously received a Writers Residency Grant in 2013-2014 for development at Playwrights Horizons.
Millikin University, Department of Theatre and Dance (Decatur, IL) for Eric Hermannson’s Soul by Chris Miller and Nathan Tysen.
Playwrights Horizons (New York, NY) for T2C by Lear deBessonet and Todd Almond.
Theater Latté Da (Minneapolis, MN) for Goddess by Saheem Ali, Jocelyn Bioh, Mkhululi Z. Mabija and Michael Thurber.
Theatre Aspen (Aspen, CO) for The Mad Show by Rich Talarico.
Theatre C (New York, NY) for Cotton Candy and Cocaine by EllaRose Chary and Brandon James Gwinn.
Village Theatre (Issaquah, WA) for The Untitled Agent 355 Project by Preston Max Allen and Jessica Kahkoska.
2016-2017
Production Grants
Atlantic Theater Company (New York, NY) for The Band’s Visit by David Yazbek and Itamar Moses with support from Stacey Mindich Productions. Moses is a NAMT Festival alum for his 2012 Festival show Nobody Loves You.
Barrington Stage Company (Pittsfield, MA) for Broadway Bounty Hunter by Joe Iconis, Lance Rubin and Jason “SweetTooth” Williams with support from The ASCAP Foundation Irving Caesar Fund and Stacey Mindich Productions. Iconis is a NAMT Festival alum for his 2011 Festival show Bloodsong of Love.
Playwrights Horizons (New York, NY) in consortium with Dallas Theater Center (Dallas, TX) for Bella: An American Tall Tale by Kirsten Childs with funding from The Hollywood Pantages, a Nederlander organization. Childs is a NAMT Festival alumna from her 1998 Festival show The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin and her 2012 Festival show Funked Up Fairy Tales.
Project Development Grants
New Musicals Inc. (North Hollywood, CA) in consortium with 3-D Theatricals (Anaheim, CA) for Invisible by David Hollingsworth and David Orris with funding from The Alhadeff Charitable Foundation.
Stage Aurora Theatrical Company (Jacksonville, FL) for Drawn from the Water by Darryl Reuben Hall.
Writers Residency Grants
The 5th Avenue Theatre (Seattle, WA) for Intermission! by Jerry Zucker, Michael Weiner and Alan Zachary. Weiner is an alum from the 2000 Festival for Liberty Smith. Both Weiner and Zachary are alumni from the 2001 Festival for The Mystery of the Dancing Princesses.
American Music Theatre Project at Northwestern University (Evanston, IL) for Michael Collins by Ryan Cunningham and Joshua Salzman. Cunningham and Salzman are alumni from their 2005 Festival show I Love You Because.
Ars Nova (New York, NY) for The Lucky Ones by Abigail Nessen Bengson, Shaun Bengson and Sarah Gancher.
Artpark and Company (Lewiston, NY) for Elephant in the Room by Jean Marie Keevins and Sahr Ngaujah.
Diversionary Theatre (San Diego, CA) for Run Away Home by Charlie Sohne and Tim Rosser. Sohne and Rosser are both alumni from their 2013 Festival show The Boy Who Danced on Air.
New York Theatre Barn (New York, NY) for Eastbound by Cheeyang Ng and Khiyon Hursey.
Village Theatre (Issaquah, WA) for an untitled project by Justin Huertas, Kisten deLohr Helland and Sara Porkalob.
2015-2016
Production Grants
Ars Nova (New York, NY) for Futurity by Cesar Alvarez and The Lisps.
Diversionary Theatre (San Diego, CA) for The Boy Who Danced on Air by Charlie Sohne and Tim Rosser with support from Kathryn & Raymond Harbert. This project was previously presented in NAMT’s 2013 Festival of New Musicals and also received a Writers Residency Grant for its development at New York Theatre Barn.
Paper Mill Playhouse (Millburn, NJ) for Ever After by Marcy Heisler and Zina Goldrich with support from Stacey Mindich Productions.
Transport Group Theatre (New York, NY) for The Blonde Streak by Dan Lipton and David Rossmer with support from The Alhadeff Family Charitable Foundation. Both writers are NAMT Festival alumni for notes to MariAnne (Fest ’11) and Joe! The Musical (Fest ’00).
Project Development Grants
The 5th Avenue Theatre (Seattle, WA) for Dutch Master by Marc Acito and Jeffrey Stock with support from Stacey Mindich Productions.
La Jolla Playhouse (La Jolla, CA) for The Hunter S. Thompson Musical by Joe Iconis and Gregory Moss with support from The ASCAP Foundation Irving Caesar Fund. Iconis is a NAMT Festival alumnus for his show Bloodsong of Love (NAMT Fest ’11).
Writers Residency Grants
11th Hour Theatre Company (Philadelphia, PA) for Big Red Sun by John Jiler and Georgia Stitt, with support from The Human Race Theatre Co. Big Red Sun appeared in our 2010 Festival of New Musicals.
Dallas Theater Center (Dallas, TX) for an untitled project by Rajiv Joseph and Bill Sherman.
MCC Theater (New York, NY) for Magnificent Climb by Rick Elice and Will Van Dyke. Van Dyke is an alumnus from NAMT’s 2015 Festival for Imagine Harry.
Pittsburgh CLO (Pittsburgh, PA) for Nero by Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik, with support from The Human Race Theatre Co. Sheik is an alumnus from NAMT’s 2015 Festival for Noir.
Theatre Aspen (Aspen, CO) for Finn the Fearless by Andrew Farmer and Andrew Butler.
TheatreWorks Silicon Valley (Palo Alto, CA) for The Four Immigrants Manga by Min Kahng.
2014-2015
Production Grants
Goodspeed Musicals (East Haddam, CT) for The Circus in Winter with music and lyrics by Ben Clark, and book by Hunter Foster and Beth Turcotte, with support from Stacey Mindich Productions. This project was presented in NAMT’s 2012 Festival of New Musicals. Festival alumnus Hunter Foster’s Summer of ’42 was presented in our 1999 Festival of New Musicals.
The Public Theater (New York, NY) for The Fortress of Solitude by Michael Friedman and Itamar Moses, with support from Stacey Mindich Productions. The Fortress of Solitude has previously received a Project Development Grant for its development at Dallas Theater Center. Itamar Moses is an alumnus from NAMT’s 2012 Festival for Nobody Loves You, which also received a Project Development Grant in 2011-2012 in support of its time at The Old Globe.
Project Development Grants
The 5th Avenue Theatre (Seattle, WA) for Beautiful Poison by Duane Poole, Brendan Milburn and Valerie Vigoda, with support from the ASCAP Foundation Irving Caesar Fund. Beautiful Poison was also selected for the 2014 Festival. Milburn and Vigoda are alumni for NAMT’s 2012 Festival’s Sleeping Beauty Wakes and 2004 Festival’s Striking 12. Milburn was also the composer of 2011’s Watt?!?.
Chicago Shakespeare Theater (Chicago, IL) for Hansel & Gretl & Heidi & Gunter by Hannah Kohl, Will Aronson and Daniel Maté, with support from the Alhadeff Family Foundation. Aronson and Maté are alumni from NAMT’s 2010 Festival for The Trouble With Doug.
Village Theatre (Issaquah, WA) for Jesus in My Bedroom by Brian Yorkey, Melanie Burgess and Tim Symons, underwritten by generous support from Kathryn & Raymond Harbert. Brian Yorkey is an alumnus of NAMT’s 2001 Festival for Making Tracks.
Writers Residency Grants
Ars Nova for K-Pop by Teddy Bergman, Helen Park and Jason Kim.
AMTP at Northwestern for The Enlightenment of Percival Von Smootz by Michael Kooman and Chris Dimond. Kooman and Dimond are alumni for Dani Girl (Fest ’11) and The Noteworthy Life of Howard Barnes (Fest ’14).
Kent State University School of Theatre and Dance (Kent, OH) for My Heart Is the Drum by Phillip Palmer, Jennie Redling and Stacey Luftig, underwritten by generous support from Kathryn & Raymond Harbert. My Heart Is the Drum appeared in our 2013 Festival of New Musicals.
New York Theatre Barn (New York, NY) for The Boy Who Danced on Air by Charlie Sohne and Tim Rosser, underwritten by generous support from Kathryn & Raymond Harbert. The Boy Who Danced on Air appeared in our 2013 Festival of New Musicals.
Theater Latté Da for The Last Queen of Canaan by Harrison David Rivers, Jacob Yandura and Rebekah Greer Melocik. The Last Queen of Canaan appeared in our 2015 Festival of New Musicals.
2013-2014
Production Grants
Barrington Stage Company (Pittsfield, MA) for Southern Comfort by Dan Collins and Julianne Wick Davis. This project previously received a Project Development Grant in support of its time at CAP21, a Writers Residency Grant for its time at Playwrights Horizons and was presented in NAMT’s 2012 Festival of New Musicals.
Transport Group (New York, NY) for The Memory Show by Sara Cooper and Zachary Redler, with support from Stacey Mindich Productions. The Memory Show was presented in NAMT’s 2009 Festival of New Musicals.
Project Development Grants
Chicago Shakespeare Theater (Chicago, IL) for Summerland by Laura Eason, Jenny Giering and Sean Barry. Giering is an alumna from NAMT’s 2005 Festival for Princess Caraboo.
Dallas Theater Center (Dallas,TX) for The Fortress of Solitude by Itamar Moses and Michael Friedman, with support from the ASCAP Foundation Irving Caesar Fund. Moses is an alumnus from NAMT’s 2012 Festival for Nobody Loves You, which also received a Project Development Grant in 2011-2012 in support of its time at The Old Globe.
Human Race Theatre Company (Dayton, OH) for The Noteworthy Life of Howard Barnes by Michael Kooman and Christopher Dimond, with support from The Alhadeff Family Charitable Foundation. Kooman and Dimond are alumni from NAMT’s 2011 Festival for Dani Girl, and The Noteworthy Life of Howard Barnes was also selected for the 2014 Festival of New Musicals.
Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma (Oklahoma City, OK) for Triangle by Thomas Mizer and Curtis Moore, with support from Stacey Mindich Productions. Triangle was presented in NAMT’s 2012 Festival of New Musicals.
Writers Residency Grants
Ars Nova (New York, NY) for Robin by Shaina Taub and Jen Silverman.
CAP21 (New York, NY) for LIVE! NUDE! GIRL! by Wayne Barker and Donna Kaz.
Playwrights Horizons (New York, NY) for Alice Bliss by Laura Harrington, Adam Gwon and Jenny Giering. All three authors are NAMT Festival alumni: Laura Harrington for The Perfect 36 (Fest ’96), Adam Gwon for Ordinary Days (Fest ’08), Bernice Bobs Her Hair (Fest ’11) and String (Fest ’14); and Jenny Giering for Princess Caraboo (Fest ’05).
Theater Latté Da (Minneapolis, MN) for C by Bradley Greenwald and Robert Elhai.
2012-2013
Production Grants
Diversionary Theatre Productions (San Diego, CA) for Harmony, Kansas by Bill Nelson and Anna K. Jacobs, with support from The ASCAP Foundation Irving Caesar Fund. This project previously received a NAMT Writers Residency Grant in support of its time at Barrington Stage Company (MA).
Playwrights Horizons (New York, NY) for Far From Heaven by Richard Greenberg, Scott Frankel and Michael Korie. Korie is an alumnus of NAMT’s 1989 Festival of New Musicals for Blanco.
TheatreWorks (Palo Alto, CA) for Wheelhouse by Gene Lewin, Brendan Milburn and Valerie Vigoda, with support from Stacey Mindich Productions. Milburn is an alumnus from NAMT’s 2011 Festival of New Musicals for Watt?!? and, along with Vigoda, for Beautiful Poison (Fest ’14), Sleeping Beauty Wakes (Fest ’12) and Striking 12 (Fest ’04),
Project Development Grants
American Music Theatre Project at Northwestern University (Evanston, IL) for The Verona Project by Amanda Dehnert, with support from The Alhadeff Family Charitable Foundation.
Center Theatre Group (Los Angeles, CA) for Up and Adam by Matt Sax.
Dallas Theater Center (Dallas, TX) for Stagger Lee by Will Power, Justin Ellington and Daryl Waters.
Weitzenhoffer School of Musical Theatre, University of Oklahoma (Norman, OK) for Something Wicked This Way Comes by Neil Bartram and Brian Hill, with funds contributed in honor of former NAMT Executive Director Kathy Evans. Bartram and Hill are alumni from NAMT’s 2007 Festival for The Story of My Life.
Writers Residency Grants
Goodspeed Musicals (East Haddam, CT) for The Single Girls Guide by Tommy Newman and Gordon Greenberg. The Single Girls Guide was selected for the 2013 Festival. Newman and Greenberg are alumni from NAMT’s 2009 Festival of New Musicals for Band Geeks!. Newman is also an alumnus for Tinyard Hill in the 2007 Festival.
Millikin University (Decatur, IL) for Bastard Jones by Amy Engelhardt and Marc Acito.
New Musical Foundation (New York, NY) for Mad Scientists by Marc Acito, Christine McKinley and James Beaton.
Tri-Arts Sharon Playhouse (Sharon, CT) for Strange Tails by Rob Rokicki and Michael Ruby.
Weston Playhouse Theatre Co. (Weston, VT) for an untitled project by Ryan Scott Oliver.
2011-2012
Production Grants
Center Theatre Group (Los Angeles, CA) for Los Otros by Ellen Fitzhugh and Michael John LaChuisa, with support from the Ann Palmer Foundation. Fitzhugh is an alumna from NAMT’s 1995 Festival of New Musicals for Paper Moon.
The Spirit of Broadway Theater (Norwich, CT) for Snow by Sean Hartley. Hartley is an alumnus from NAMT’s 2000 Festival of New Musicals for Cupid & Psyche.
Weston Playhouse Theatre Company (Weston, VT) for Saint-Ex by Jenny Giering and Sean Barry, with support from Stacey Mindich Productions. Giering is an alumna from NAMT’s 2005 Festival of New Musicals for Princess Caraboo.
Project Development Grants
CAP 21 (New York, NY) for Southern Comfort by Julianne Wick Davis and Dan Collins, with support from The ASCAP Foundation Irving Caesar Fund.
La Jolla Playhouse (La Jolla, CA) for The Life of John Birch by Keith Bunin and Mark Bennett.
The Old Globe Theatre (San Diego, CA) for Nobody Loves You by Gaby Alter and Itamar Moses. Nobody Loves You was selected for the 2012 Festival of New Musicals.
Public Theater/NYSF (New York, NY) for February House by Gabe Kahane and Seth Bockley.
Uptown Players (Dallas, TX) for Crazy Just Like Me by Louis Sacco and Drew Gasparini.
Writers Residency Grants
Ars Nova (New York, NY) for Suprema by Jordan Harrison & Daniel Zaitchik.
Chicago Shakespeare Theatre (Chicago, IL) for Othello: The Remix by GQ & JQ (The Q Brothers). Othello: The Remix was selected for the 2015 Festival.
Milikin University (Decatur, IL) for The Grid by Marisa Michelson and Frank Terry.
New York Theatre Barn (New York, NY) for Speargrove Presents by Sammy Buck & Brandon James Gwinn.
New York University: The Steinhardt School (New York, NY) for Pool Boy by Janet Allard & Nikos Tsakalakos.
Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Ashland, OR) for Elijah By Night by Shaina Taub.
Theatre Under The Stars (Houston, TX) for Love Like Crazy by Ryan Kennedy.
TheatreWorks (Palo Alto, CA) for La Ronde by Kait Kerrigan, Brian Lowdermilk, Chris Miller, Michael R. Jackson, Adam Gwon, Jenny Giering, Janine Nabers, Deb Stein, Dan Dietz, Lauren Gunderson, and Peter Nachtreib.
2010-2011
Production Grants
Dallas Theater Center (Dallas, TX), in a co-production with The Public Theater (New York, NY), for Giant by Michael John LaChuisa and Sybille Pearson, with support from Dallas Summer Musicals.
Ford’s Theatre (Washington, DC) for Liberty Smith by Adam Abraham, Eric R. Cohen, Marc Madnick and Michael Weiner, which was presented in NAMT’s 2000 Festival of New Musicals, with support from The ASCAP Foundation Irving Caesar Fund.
The Human Race Theatre Co. (Dayton, OH) for right next to me by Gregg Coffin, with support from Theatre Under The Stars. Coffin is an alumnus from NAMT’s 2000 Festival of New Musicals for Convenience.
TheatreWorks (Palo Alto, CA) for A Christmas Memory by Larry Grossman, Carol Hall and Duane Poole, with support from The Ann Palmer Foundation. Grossman is an alumnus of NAMT’s 1995 Festival of New Musicals for Paper Moon, Hall is an alumna for Good Sports in 1993 and Poole is an alumnus from Beautiful Poison in 2014.
Project Development Grants
CAP 21 (New York, NY) for Next Thing You Know by Ryan Cunningham and Joshua Salzman, with support from Stacey Mindich Productions. Cunningham and Salzman are alumni of NAMT’s 2005 Festival of New Musicals for I Love You Because.
Lark Play Development Center (New York, NY) for Love Kills by Kyle Jarrow, who is an alumnus of NAMT’s 2009 Festival of New Musicals for Hostage Song.
Village Theatre (Issaquah, WA) for Oneida by Beth Blatt and Daniel Green. Blatt is an alumna of NAMT’s 2005 Festival of New Musicals for Princess Caraboo.
Early Collaboration Grant
Theater Latte Da (Minneapolis, MN) for Through Ellis Island by Dan Chouinard and Peter Rothstein.
Writers Residency Grants
Academy for New Musical Theatre (North Hollywood, CA) for Duplexity by Eric Dodson and Jake Anthony.
Barrington Stage Co. (Pittsfield, MA) for Harmony, Kansas by Bill Nelson and Anna K. Jacobs.
The Boston Conservatory (Boston, MA) for Factory Girls by Maggie-Kate Coleman, Creighton Irons and Sean Mahoney, which was presented in NAMT’s 2009 Festival of New Musicals.
The Little Theatre On The Square (Sullivan, IL) for How to Bust a Bully! by Terry Abrahamson, Michael Carlson and Buddy Reeder.
Millikin University (Decatur, IL) for String by Adam Gwon and Sarah Hammond.
Playwrights Horizons (New York, NY) for Southern Comfort by Dan Collins and Julianne Wick Davis.
TheatreWorks (Menlo Park, CA) for Fly By Night by Kimberly Rosenstock, Will Connolly, and Michael Mitnick.
2009-2010
Production Grants
Adirondack Theatre Festival (Glens Falls, NY) for Ordinary Days by Adam Gwon, which was part of NAMT’s 2008 Festival of New Musicals, with underwriting support from Stacey Mindich.
Red Mountain Theatre Company (Birmingham, AL) for Barnstormer by Cheryl Davis and Douglas Cohen, which was part of NAMT’s 2008 Festival of New Musicals, with underwriting support from Broadway Across America.
Project Development Grants
Center Theatre Group (Los Angeles, CA) for Post Office with book & lyrics by Melissa James Gibson and music by Michael Friedman, with underwriting support from Broadway Across America.
Chicago Shakespeare Theater (Chicago, IL) for The Emperor’s New Clothes with music & lyrics by Alan Schmuckler and book by Dave Holstein, with underwriting support from The Mackintosh Foundation. Schmuckler is an alumnus of NAMT’s 2009 Festival of New Musicals for How Can You Run With A Shell on Your Back?
Goodspeed Musicals (East Haddam, CT) for Band Geeks! with a book by Tommy Newman & Gordon Greenberg, lyrics by Gaby Alter & Newman, music by Mark Allen, Alter & Newman, concept by Newman, with underwriting support from The ASCAP Foundation Irving Caesar Fund. Band Geeks! was part of NAMT’s 2009 Festival of New Musicals Allen and Newman are alumni from NAMT’s 2007 Festival of New Musicals forTinyard Hill; Newman is also an alum from Single Girls Guide (Fest ’13), and Alter is an alumnus from Nobody Loves You (Fest ’12).
The Human Race Theatre Company (Dayton, OH) for The Trimble Wars with music by Sean Michael Flowers, book & lyrics by Patrick Vaughn, with underwriting support from Charlie Fink/New Musical Foundation.
The Old Globe (San Diego, CA) for The Weird Sisters with music by Ian Williams and book & lyrics by Aaron Jafferis, with underwriting support from The Lake Company, Inc. Both Williams and Jafferis are alumni from NAMT’s 2007 Festival of New Musicals for Kingdom.
Early Collaboration Grant
Ford’s Theatre Society (Washington, DC) for The House by Andrew Gerle and Eddie Sugarman, with underwriting support from The Shen Family Foundation. Gerle and Sugarman are alumni from NAMT’s 2005 Festival of New Musicals for Meet John Doe.
This page was last updated on 10/20/2024