I launched the summer Lyric Lab and Advanced Lyric Lab today…and for the first time in summer Boot Camp history, the lyric labs are all 100% online! Since lyricists who wanted to take the Lyric Lab this summer live all over California (including the Bay Area and down near San Diego), and gas prices are so out of control, I thought it made more sense this summer to make everything available online: the 40 videos, all the interactive tests, the handouts…and even my one-on-one feedback.
The summer’s lucky lyricists are going to get my feedback via mp3 — so instead of getting feedback in a weekly group meeting, I’m going to give individual feedback, one-on-one, just like I do on writingmusicaltheatre.com. I think we’re all going to enjoy that. (Plus, we’ll save on the gas.)
–Scott
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/.