Extra Week to Submit to Next Link

The Next Link Project receives hundreds of submissions every year for the opportunity to receive a partially-subsidized production slot in the fall festival along with resources from NYMF such as dramturgical support and a weekend-long series of networking events and production advice.

Finalists in the selection process will be read by the 2008 Grand Jury of theater luminaires including Tony Award-winning lyricist and bookwriter Lynn Ahrens (Ragtime), Tony Award-winning actors Hinton Battle (Sophisticated Ladies, The Tap Dance Kid, Miss Saigon) and Norbert Leo Butz (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels), Tony Award-nominated lyricist and bookwriter Michael Korie (Grey Gardens, The Grapes of Wrath), 4-time Tony-winning actress Audra McDonald (Carousel, Master Class, Ragtime, and A Raisin in the Sun), Tony Award-winning director Michael Mayer (Spring Awakening),  legendary director and choreographer Susan Stroman (Crazy for You, Show Boat, Contact, The Producers), and Tony Award-winning producer Elizabeth Williams (Crazy For You and the revivals of The Real Thing and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest). 

For more information on the Next Link project and to submit a show, click on submit a show.