Thursday, the Yale Institute for Music Theatre and its artistic director, Mark Brokaw, will begin accepting applications for a “two-week summer residency,” according to a press release from the Yale School of Drama. Submissions will be received through Feb. 1, 2012.
According to the program’s website, “YIMT seeks distinctive and original music theatre works by emerging composers and writers to be developed in an intensive lab setting. … The residency culminates with open rehearsal readings of each project, presented as part of the 2012 International Festival of Arts & Ideas.”
The above-mentioned press release indicates that “composers, playwrights, lyricists, or librettists who are current graduate students; or who have graduated from an accredited degree granting institution (undergraduate or graduate) within the past five years; or who are current Yale students (undergraduate or graduate) are eligible to apply” to the program, which was established in 2009. Among the works developed during the program’s first year was Pop! (see video provided above), a musical by Maggie-Kate Coleman and Anna K. Jacobs that was subsequently produced under Brokaw’s direction at the Yale Repertory Theatre.
For information about past participants and detailed eligibility and submission guidelines, visit this page. An application form is available here.