Are you now or have you ever been …

 

An artist, poet, songwriter, videographer, composer, librettist, and/or lyricist with a great story to tell … in music, words, song, and dance … using live actors, dancers, singers, and/or puppets … expressly designed to thrill live audiences?

 

An artist whose work illuminates lives and cultures shaped by human pilgrimage?

 

An artist whose work explores the nature and process of social marginalization … the creation and maintenance of the “Other”?

 

An artist who investigates transactions in the currencies of social and cultural equity, be they ethnic, religious, class, or gender-based, or defined by sexual orientation, age, ideology, or nationality?

 

An artist who seeks, on-stage, at least the same range of colors, accents, and shapes found in our lives and is not afraid of non-traditional means to generate them?

 

An artist passionate about the potential to create a transformative experience … when storytelling, song, performance, dance, and design combine with ever-evolving new media, and everyone is in the same room, live?

 

If you answer “Yes” to a majority of the questions above and have a complete, or nearly complete first or early draft, with at least a portion of songs or music recorded, we recognize your complicity and identify you as a fellow traveler.

 

If you are also at or near the beginning of your focused work as the creator of a new musical, be it as composer or writer, either because you’re still a kid, or you’ve finally realized this is the only thing that makes you feel like a kid again, let us know. We’re looking for grant dollars specifically to expose the work of people who waive their right to privacy in this regard.

 

If you also happen to profile as an emerging artist of color, there may even be additional funds available for the development of your work.

 

We are calling upon all would-be accomplices and appealing to you to submit.