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Weston Playhouse New Musical Award
Description: This national award supports the creation of a 30-minute demo CD of a new, full-length musical or a substantial revision of an existing work; preference is given to emerging composing teams.
Details: The creators, a music director and 5 Equity/AFTRA actors travel to Weston, VT for 3 days of rehearsal and a free public concert followed by a NYC recording session with Kurt Deutsch of Sh-K-Boom and Ghostlight Records. All artists are paid on union agreements and all expenses (Vermont travel, housing and meals) are covered. The creators receive 100 copies of the resulting demo CD.
Selection: From nominations only by the Academy for New Musical Theatre, ASCAP Musical Theatre Workshop, BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop, Dramatists Guild Fellows Program, Lark Play Development Center, New Dramatists, New York Music Theatre Festival, NYU-Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program, O’Neill National Music Theater Conference, Sundance Institute Theatre Program, and Theatre Building Chicago.
Recipients: 2010 Sean Barry & Jenny Giering, SAINT-EX; 2009 Aron Accurso & Jill Abramovitz, THE DOGS OF PRIPYAT; 2008 Liz Duffy Adams & John Hodian, THE LISTENER OF JUNK CITY; 2007 Kyoung-Ae Kang & Sean Keogh, BE LIKE JOE
Next Dates: 2010 Concert- Saturday, Feb. 27 @ 8pm. Nominations for 2011 due November 2010; Awardees announced January 2011; Vermont residency including travel and NYC Recording Session February 2011 (exact dates TBD). |
Weston Playhouse Artists Retreat
Description: Individual or collaborating artists (writers, composers, directors, actors, choreographers, music directors, designers, artistic directors, dramaturgs) are invited to further a new project during a week’s retreat (Sunday to Sunday) in Weston, Vermont.
Details: 5-7 participants receive round trip transportation, single bedroom with shared kitchen and bath in company housing, private workspace, meals/per diem, administrative support, and access to the theatre’s artistic staff, if needed. The artists gather together most evenings for dinner in private homes or local inns, and the week culminates in an informal salon in which the participants share aspects of their work and process with interested members of the community.
Selection: By invitation
Participants: 2010 participants include playwrights Sharon Bridgforth, Sarah Hammond and Susan Mosakowski, and musical teams Randy Blair and Timothy Michael Drucker, and Zach Redler and Sara Cooper; 2009 Director/Writer Steve Cosson, The Civilians; Director/Adaptor Stephen Fried Dead Souls; Writer/Composer Adam Gwon; Writer Betty Shamieh; 2008 Writers Hunter Bell & Jeff Bowen, Director Michael Berresse, Music Director Larry Pressman (title of show); Writers Aaron Jafferis & Ian Williams The Weird Sisters; Writer Polly Pen
Next Dates: 4/26/09-5/3/09
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Stage Readings
Description: New or classic plays or musicals are rehearsed, sometimes revised, and shared in simple book-in-hand readings.
Details: Equity actors rehearse with a director, writer, dramaturg, and – as needed – a composer, music director, and stage manager – for 3-10 days under Actors’ Equity Association Stage Reading guidelines. The work culminates in a free public reading, usually followed by a focused discussion.
Selection: By invitation
Participants: 2009 Obie-winning playwright/performer Dael Orlandersmith (Yellow Man); Artistic Directors Lisa Steindler (Z Space Studio) & David Van Asselt (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater), Director, Actors, Designer TBA; 2008 The Oath Playwright Gavin Broady, Actor Ian Barford, Director Malcolm Ewen, Dramaturg Lauryn Axelrod, Consultants Nicholas & Ruth Daniloff
Next Dates: 7/3/09-7/13/09
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Workshop Production
Description: Artists, collaborators, or ensembles are invited to Weston to rehearse and perform a work in progress, with bare bones technical support as agreed.
Details: In most cases, actors rehearse for 3 weeks under an Equity LORT Experimental Theatre contract, performing in the company’s OtherStages, occasionally book in hand.
Selection: By invitation
Participants: N/A
Next Dates: Project to be instituted in Summer ’10
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World Premieres
Description: As projects and funding permit, a full production of a new play or musical will be mounted on one of Weston’s stages.
Details: Actors rehearse for 3 weeks under an Equity LORT contract, performing on the company’s MainStage or OtherStages as appropriate to the project.
Selection: By WPTC Artistic Staff
Participants: 2010 The Oath Playwright Gavin Broady, Director Malcolm Ewen, Actor Ian Barford
Next Dates: Summer 2010 (exact dates TBD)
Submission Policy
We regret that the size of our staff and budget do not permit us to consider unsolicited manuscripts at this time.
Funding
Support for the WPTC New Works Programs has been received from The Araca Group; Pat Daily of Broadway.com; Lisa deLima & Bobby Alter; Dramatists Play Service, Inc.; Dramatic Publishing; Samuel French, Inc.; Wayne & Deborah Granquist; Sam & Barbara Lloyd; Marguerite & Peter Mason; Music Theatre International; the Rodgers and Hammerstein Organization; Thomas Schumacher of Disney Theatrical; the Shubert Foundation; Tams-Witmark Music Library; Theatrical Rights Worldwide; and Rick Twigg. In Kind Support has been received from Bob & Linda Aldrich of The Inn at Weston; Kurt Deutsch of Sh-K-Boom Records; and Richard B. Smith, MD.
Capital Projects
The Weston Playhouse Theatre Company has acquired the 5-acre Walker farmstead at the northern edge of the village of Weston, Vermont and is in the process of designing and funding its transformation into a year-round campus for play development through a major capital campaign.
Contact
For further information about WPTC New Works Programs, contact Resident Producing Director Steve Stettler at sstettler@westonplayhouse.org or 802/824-8167 x102.
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