Interviews
“I Am of My Generation”
Max Vernon
Composer-Lyricist,
KPOP, The View UpStairs
A Broadway Debut in Bikini Bottom
Stephanie Hsu
Performer
SpongeBob SquarePants
Music As Listening, Personal Practice, And INstinct
Marisa Michelson
Composer,
One Thousand Nights and One Day
Do it for love
Julie Gold
Composer-Lyricist & Songwriter,
“From a Distance”
Getting out of your own way
Heather Christian
Composer-Lyricist,
Animal Wisdom
Career Snapshot
Rachel Bloom
Creator, Executive Producer,
Crazy Ex Girlfriend
Artists As Entrepreneurs
Beth Morrison
President and Creative Producer,
Beth Morrison Projects
My Musical Language Is Big
Lisa DeSpain
Composer,
That Hell-Bound Train
Joy Is Ferocious And Breathes Fire
Orion Stephanie Johnstone
Human, Composer, Organizer
15 Billion Musicals Would Never Be Enough
Kirsten Childs
Composer-Lyricist,
Bella: An American Tall Tale
Bringing the Trans/GNC Experience to the Stage
Dana Levinson, L. Morgan Lee, Cece Suazo, Kit Yan, Andi Lee Carter , Ianne Fields Stewart, Éamon Boylan, Preston Max Allen, and Shakina Nayfack.
What we Want to Write
Timothy Huang, Christine Toy Johnson and David Henry Hwang
Dramaturging New Musicals: Beehive Dramaturgy Studio
Molly Marinik, Jeremy Stoller and Natasha Sinha
Music DIrectors: Resonators, Administrators, Leaders
Madeline Smith, Britt Bonney, and Ian Axness
Mission: The Big, Impossible Dream Play
Ari Schrier and Natalie Gershtein
Work Excerpts
Lisa Lambert
Deepali Gupta
Will Aronson and Hue Park
Jahn Sood
Heather Christian
Oliver Houser
Marisa Michelson
Christine Toy Johnson and Bobby Cronin
Grace McLean
Preston Max Allen
Max Vernon
Benjamin Scheuer
Essays/Editorials
Risk
Michael John LaChiusa
“You Might Make A Killing”… If You Don’t Starve First
EllaRose Chary
Why TYA?
Rachel Leighson
Wrestling Between God and Art
Orian Israelsohn
Say it Somehow: Depicting foreigners in American Musical Theatre
Katya Stanislavskaya
Going Eastbound: Creating a lMultilingual Musical
Joe Barros with Khiyon Hursey and Cheeyang Ng
On Bothness
Ian Axness
Check Your Ego, Guard Your Soul, Or: Work for Hire
David Spencer
No Deadline, no problem! Making Our Own Deadlines as Musical Theater Writers
Shoshana Greenberg
Vox Populi: The World of Musical Theatre Podcasting
Robert W. Schneider
Exhibiting Robbins
Julia L. Foulkes
Collecting the Art of Broadway
Mike Kleintop
Confederate Monuments, Race, and Casting the Broadway Musical in 2017
Warren Hoffman
Stop asking Black Performers to “Sound and/or Talk Blacker” During Auditions
Kevin Ray Johnson
Based on the Novel by: The History of Source Material for the Broadway Musical
Jeremy Scott Blaustein
Like All of us Do
Michael Kushner
The Evolution of the Broadway Musical Heroine: A Conversation with Katie Welsh
Donald Sanborn III and Katie Welsh