EIGHT-DAY PROGRAM
FOR MUSICAL THEATER COMPOSERS
For students entering 10th grade - college
Please call for program availability.

Perry-Mansfield’s Composer’s Stage Project in Musical Theater recognizes that there is a strong need to find, nurture and train composers and lyricists capable of producing quality works for the stages of Broadway, off-Broadway and regional theaters around the country. For eight days, our selected composers and lyricists will examine the very specific craft of writing for the stage. Students will engage in daily writing exercises and examine the role of music and lyrics in this unique storytelling medium. They will receive expert guidance as they continue to develop their writing talents and learn new skills. The weeklong process-centered experience examines how a rigorous understanding of craft helps the individual creative voice develop and grow with the aim of creating new works that resonate with artistic integrity. A resident musical director and four singers, all talented professionals, will be on hand to facilitate the process, so composers and lyricists will be able to hear their work on a daily basis.

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Program Coordinator Andrew Levine

Andrew Levine has established a multifaceted career in the arts that allows him to express his talents as a producer, musician, and educator. While serving as head of the Musical Theater department at Perry-Mansfield School for the Performing Arts, he has created the pre-professional program, the musical theater component of P-M’s Festival of New Works, The Art of Cabaret, and The Composer’s Stage Project. He is the executive director of Flying Machine Productions, and has produced The Blue Flower, an innovative multimedia work by Jim and Ruth Bauer presented at the New York Musical Theater Festival and Don’t Look Down, a song cycle written by Adam Wagner. Andrew is on the faculty of the Hartt School and spent four years as the resident Musical Director for the Savannah College of Art and Design. He has worked professionally for American Place Theater, Jewish Repertory Theater, Westchester Broadway Theater, Cleveland Playhouse, New American Theater, and Candlewood Playhouse. He holds a BMus. in piano performance from Manhattan School of Music and a MMus. in composition from Georgia Southern University.