The 109th post in the video blog from NMI Artistic Director Elise Dewsberry - How to Get NO Feedback from Elise. The Final Year: Why Outline? What are the benefits of starting your musical with an outline - and what are the best practices for writing said outline?
RELATED VLOGS TO CHECK OUT:
Vlog #7- OUTLINING https://youtu.be/MNBVbMXj4bE
Vlog #16 - THE ROUGH DRAFT https://youtu.be/4jfsp9OWpHc
Vlog #22 - SONG SPOTTING AS A FUNCTION OF THE BOOK https://youtu.be/dhbNs9Ae7bU
Vlog #64- Revisiting SONG SPOTTING https://youtu.be/_mS_kBwIgg0
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Author: Elise Dewsberry
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Artistic Director of New Musicals Inc., Elise has been involved in the development of new works for over forty years: as an actor/singer, as a director, as a dramaturge, and as a writer. While living in Toronto, Elise served as the Assistant Artistic Director of the Muskoka Festival; the Co-Ordinator of the festival’s annual Musical Theatre Writer’s Colony, the Associate Dramaturge of the Canadian Stage Company; the Resident Dramaturge of the Smile Theatre Company; and was the co-founder of Toronto’s Script Lab. Elise spent many years touring Canada with Nine Months – a one-woman musical which she commissioned from writers Carl Ritchie and Stephen Woodjetts. Elise and Carl also co-wrote Any Body Home?, which was produced by the Cordova Bay Theatre in Victoria, British Columbia, and published by Dramatic Publishing. Elise joined ANMT as Associate Artistic Director in 2003; joined Founding Artistic Director John Sparks as Co-Artistic Director in 2010; and became Artistic Director of New Musicals Inc. in 2013. Elise is also the author and evaluator of the Book Lab and the Outlining Lab, offered online through www.writingmusicaltheatre.com, and publishes a monthly blog on the craft of musical theatre available at https://nmi.org/elises-video-blog/.