“Musical Makers . . . where imagination meets the page and stage”

A B O U T    M U S I C A L    M A K ER S

Musical Makers is an association that includes composers, lyricists, bookwriters, directors, musical directors, producers, marketers/promoters, educators, performers, critics, and others who have interest in contributing to the development of new musical theatre works.

Goals:
• Help establish and strengthen ASCAP, BMI, and Dramatists Guild presence in more cities.
• Organize and encourage university and conservatory participation in the new works process.
• Find more grants and other sources of funding for demos and other creator expenses.
• Create more environments where creative risk is acceptable.
• Work on better ways of matching up new works with producers, directors, theaters, and other likely organizations.
• Improve the critique/feedback process.
• Develop a mentor program.
• Sponsor conventions, seminars, mini-festivals, local chapters, and other gatherings for panels, discussion, and information exchanges.
• Produce promotional CDs and live concerts dedicated to showcasing new works.

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed people can change the world. Indeed,
it is the only thing that ever can.”—Margaret Mead

 

M I S S I O N   S T A T E M E N T

• Organize and communicate information about new musical theatre works and developmental programs.
• Encourage education, mentoring, networking and real-life gatherings.
• Find and develop artistic, organizational and financial resources.
• Build alliances among existing organizations to inform and coordinate efforts.

“It takes a village to raise a curtain.”

 

B E C O M E   A   M E M B E R

At this time, there is no formal application nor dues required to join Musical Makers. Membership
consists of joining the MM e-mail list. NOTE: If you do not want to receive individual e-mails or
e-mail digests from the e-group, you can sign up for “web only.”

This membership method gives MM a comprehensive list of members for communicatons to the
group, and a means of counting and tracking members. Your e-mail address is not given out or
sold to anyone. Global communications to the entire email listing are rare (a few times a year),
used only for significant Musical Makers announcements.

MEMBER BENEFITS: Only registered members may have listings under “member links,”
“collaboration connection,” “showlistings,” and “member profiles.” Members can participate in
discussions in the e-group, utilize the e-group chat, and access e-group archives.

MEMBER SERVICES: For a nominal annual fee, Musical Makars will host more comprehensive
template-drivne, ad-free show sites or self-promotional sites.

Our website and email groups and other resources are available to any interested individuals
or organizations. All the services are provided through volunteer efforts of our membership
and corporate sponsorship.

For more information, contact Jill Marshall-Work, web designer/webmaster.

For our member forum (e-group), we use Yahoo’s Groups. To subscribe to the
Musical Makers e-list, use the button below. If you are already an egroups member,
adding another group to your list of groups is very simple. If you do not belong to any
egroups currently, the site will give you all instructions for joining. You can choose to
receive individual messages, a daily digest, or view messages on the egroups website.

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C O N T A C T   I N F O R M A T I O N

• Jill Marshall-Work, web designer/webmaster