American Theatre Wing: New York, NY (February 6, 2017) – The American Theatre Wing announced today that the 2017 Jonathan Larson® Grants recipients are Ben Bonnema (book, music and lyrics), Maggie-Kate Coleman & Erato A. Kremmyda (music and lyrics), Ty Defoe & Tidtaya Sinutoke (book, music and lyrics), and Michael R. Jackson (book, music and lyrics). Four prestigious grants of $10,000 each, totaling $40,000, will be presented on Monday, March 6, 2017 at a private event at the WNYC Greene Space. The event will feature special performances of the recipients’ work.
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I found this article so inspiring! It truly exemplifies Jonathan Larson's legacy. It is wonderful to see the recipients of this award because they have already done so much amazing work and they are so young. Seeing the list of alumni from the Larson grant is astounding. The money has given theses artists the ability to realize their work. The Larson grant provides young arts to be able to break into the “incumbent” status quo of broadway. The work that has come from these artists are all new, barrier-breaking work. It is always such a catch 22 because everyone on broadway wants experienced artist, but there is no way to become experienced without a miracle. I think this grant is helping bridge the gap of the path to becoming a broadway artist. Jonathan Larson’s family are amazing people for creating this grant and allowing musical theatre to live on through generation and generations.
This grant is truly amazing! The fact that emerging musical theater artist are given $10,000 is incredibly. The track record of past grant recipients shows that this money really does help. One thing that I found even more amazing is that one of the shows will get a presentation at Northwestern University. One of my best friends goes there for musical theater and he talks a lot about this show. It’s an opportunity for the students to get to do new work which is rare at a college and gives the composers an idea of what the show is with a budget. One thing I found slightly off putting was that most of the winners are NYU MFA grads. Does NYU have an afflation with this program or just this happened out of randomness? None the less the opportunity this grant gives is incredible and I cannot wait to see the future of these composers!
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