Year Two

A collaboration with faculty and students from Tisch Drama’s New Studio on Broadway. Working with student actors and a director you will bring various moments in your thesis musical to life.

A course in which student teams write weekly exercises and complete a full musical pilot 30-45 minutes in length. Unlike a lab, the class is run like a writers room with students as showrunners seeking input particular to their projects.

A collaboration with New York City Center highlighting the importance of arts-making as community service. Second-year GMTW students write songs based on their encounters with NYCC community partners. The songs are performed in concert at NYU’s African Grove Theatre by students from Tisch’s New Studio on Broadway, with selections presented at City Center as a part of their Encores Series Community Nights.

An opportunity to participate in a community-based program pairing adult professional composers with young people from New York City’s Hell’s Kitchen to put their words and ideas into original songs.

A collaboration where NYU Steinhardt Vocal Performance students learn, rehearse and perform ensemble numbers from selected GMTW thesis projects in concert at the NYU’s Frederick Loewe Theatre.

A chance to have the second draft of your GMTW lab exercises performed in a cabaret-style concert by students from Tisch Drama.

A chance to experiment with new ways of writing from yourself. Explore your relationship to your world, and discover where your own life might dance and sing.

A class examining the essential place of absurdity in the musical theater writer’s toolkit, for the purpose of exploring serious and important issues through a different lens, or for the sheer pleasure of wackiness.

An opportunity for those of you who write both words and music. A series of master classes by faculty composer-lyricists and guest artists exploring various approaches when you create both together.

A collaboration between Brooklyn contemporary opera producer American Opera Projects, GMTW, and Tisch Design for Stage & Film focusing on the history and creation of new operas. Site specific projects in New York have included original operas inspired by — and performed at — Fort Greene Park, the Brooklyn Museum, the Hudson Guild, Woodlawn Cemetery and the New York Transit Museum. (Photo by Lisa Aurigemma)

An immersive, interactive event which unfolds in our classrooms and hallways every year, conceived, built and presented by students. Equal parts haunted house, escape room, art installation, adventure game and musical theatre event, this is a fun, hands-on opportunity for those interested in exploring spatial and experiential storytelling.