New Musicals Australia is a music theatre workshopping program founded in 2010 by Century Venues with the support of the

Australia Council Creative Australia, formerly known as the Australia Council for the Arts and the Australia Council, is the country's official arts council, serving as an arts funding and advisory body for the Government of Australia. The council was announ ...

Music Board.

History

New Musicals Australia was founded in 2010 by director and producer

Kris Stewart Kris Stewart (born February 9, 1967, in Portsmouth) is the founding chairman of English football club AFC Wimbledon and a left wing political activist. He was the club's chief executive and is also a CIMA past finalist management accountant. Un ...

, who also founded the

New York Musical Theatre Festival The New York Musical Festival (NYMF) was an annual event held each summer from 2004 to 2019 in New York City's midtown theater district. It mounted more than 30 new musicals each year, more than half selected through an open-submission, double- ...

.'Staff & Board', The New York Musical Theatre Festival 2010
retrieved 15 August 2010.

Panel

The program selects a number of original

musicals Musical theatre is a form of theatrical performance that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance. The story and emotional content of a musical – humor, pathos, love, anger – are communicated through words, music, movement ...

by Australian composers, lyricists and bookwriters to be workshopped and presented to a selected panel of theatre professionals. This panel is also involved in the selection of musicals to be workshopped and includes:"About Us"
New Musicals Australia, retrieved 15 August 2010. *

Stephen Schwartz Stephen Lawrence Schwartz (born March 6, 1948) is an American musical theatre composer and lyricist. In a career spanning over five decades, Schwartz has written hit musicals such as ''Godspell'' (1971), ''Pippin (musical), Pippin'' (1972), and ...

(Patron), composer and lyricist * Peter Casey, musical director * Kellie Dickerson, musical director * Rodney Dobson, performer * Neil Gooding, producer and director *

Roger Hodgman Roger Hodgman (born 1 December 1943) is an Australian stage and television director. He was educated at the Hutchins School and the University of Tasmania, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English and Political Science in 1966, ...

, director * Karen Johnson Mortimer, director * Jennifer Murphy, director and educator *

Guy Noble Guy Noble is an Australian musical composer, conductor, pianist and broadcaster. Noble studied piano in the early 1980s at the Sydney Conservatorium. On a scholarship from the Australia Council he travelled to London where he worked for four yea ...

, musical director * Peter Ross, producer and director *

Darren Yap Darren Yap is an Australian actor and director based in Sydney, Australia. Family and education He was born in Sydney and grew up in the South Western Sydney suburb of Cabramatta. He was the third child of a Malaysian-born father and his thir ...

, director

Venues

New Musicals Australia is operated out of a collection of entertainment spaces owned by Century Venues.

References

External links

New Musicals Australia
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