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The Project Footlight musical theater festival is happening - we will be pairing together 18 musical theater writers - 9 composers and 9 librettists - to brainstorm, create, cast, rehearse, and produce a single full-length musical in...one week!

Jump into this wild experiment, this bubbling cauldron of ideas, for seven days of hair-raising, mad-cap adventure that could only happen at Dixon Place.

Submit an application by January 5th to participate in this wild ride of festival which will culminate in shows on February 6 & 7 in the new Dixon Place theater on Chrystie Street.

The Project Footlight festival is a camp for emerging musical theater writers that focuses on the developmental process and the art of collaboration. The festival asks participating artists how we unify a work across a collection of different artistic perspectives while always mindful of the audience. We especially encourage those composers or writers from other genres and those pushing the boundaries of musical theater to apply. In keeping with the laboratory environment of Dixon Place, Project Footlight seeks to attract and cultivate new voices in musical theater while sponsoring a unique work of art.

The New Dixon Place
161 Chrystie Street
b/w Rivington & Delancey
New York, NY 10002
More info: www.dixonplace.org