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The Jonathan Larson Grant Recipients
The Jonathan Larson Grants were established in 1997. The grants have recognized and supported nearly one hundred composers, lyricists, bookwriters, and organizations to honor emerging talent and infuse the musical theatre community with new work.
2013 GRANT RECIPIENTS
Joshua Salzman and Ryan Cunningham
$8,000 grant, performance at the March 24th event, and a week-long residency at Running Deer Musical Theatre Lab.
Joshua Salzman (music) and Ryan Cunningham (book and lyrics) are Drama Desk and MAC Award-nominated writers. Their Off-Broadway musical, I Love You Because, has been produced all over the world and translated into Spanish,
Chinese, Korean and Finnish. Their new musical, Next Thing You Know, was produced at CAP21 in New York with the help of a grant from NAMT and has gone on to be produced across America and in Europe. The cast album is now available on
Yellow Sound Label. They continue their collaboration with a musical about the '77 New York City blackout called The Legend of New York. Ryan and Joshua are graduates of the NYU graduate musical theatre writing
program and are both members of ASCAP and the Dramatist Guild.
Kamala Sankaram
$2,000 grant and performance at the March 24th event
Praised as "strikingly original" (NY Times), Kamala Sankaram has written music for theater, film, and concert. She has received residencies from the MacDowell Colony, the Watermill Center,
and the Hermitage, and was the 2011 Con Edison/Exploring the Metropolis Composer-in-Residence at the Brooklyn Youth Chorus Academy. Her music for SOUNDING (directed by Kristin Marting) was
praised as "gorgeous pop-rock interludes" (Time Out NY). As a resident artist at HERE Arts Center, Kamala created MIRANDA, a steampunk murder mystery which was was named winner of the New
York Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Production of a Musical. Also a performer, Kamala has collaborated with the Wooster Group, the Philip Glass Ensemble, and Anthony Braxton,
among others.
Meet the 2013 Jonathan Larson Grant recipients (words and music) >>
Watch highlights from the 2013 Grants presentation on YouTube >>
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PRIOR GRANT RECIPIENTS BY YEAR
2012
Dan Collins and Julianne Wick Davis
Watch highlights from the 2012 Grants presentation on YouTube >>
2011
Joshua Cohen and Marisa Michelson
Michelle Elliott and Danny Larsen
Jack Lechner, Andy Monroe and Michael Zam
2010
Peter Lerman
Daniel Maté
Michael Kooman and Christopher Dimond
2009
Mark Allen
Dave Malloy
Thomas Mizer and Curtis Moore
Ryan Scott Oliver
2008
Gaby Alter
Susan DiLallo
Jordan Mann
Jeff Thomson
Joel New
Jason Rhyne
City Theatre
for An Infinite Ache by Brendan Milburn and Valerie Vigoda
2007
Matt Gould
Melissa Li and Abe Rybeck
Robert Maddock
J. Oconer Navarro
Benj Pasek and Justin Paul
Mike Pettry
St. Ann's Warehouse
for Must Don't Whip 'Um by Cynthia Hopkins
2006
Andrew Gerle and Eddie Sugarman
Lance Horne
Joseph Iconis
Kait Kerrigan and Brian Lowdermilk
Alison Loeb
Brendan Milburn and Valerie Vigoda
New York Shakespeare Festival
for Passing Strange by Mark Stewart and Heidi Rodewald
2005
Neil Bartram
Nathan Christensen and Scott Murphy
Michael Cooper and Hyeyoung Kim
Steven Lutvak
Glenn Slater and Stephen Weiner
Lark Play Development Center
for Barnstormer by Doug Cohen and Cheryl Davis
2004
Jim Bauer and Ruth Bauer
Mark Campbell
Amanda Green
Cynthia Hopkins
Gihieh Lee
Raw Impressions Theatre
Village Theatre
for Feeling Electric (now Next to Normal) by Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey
2003
Nell Benjamin
John Didrichsen
Jeffrey Stock
Nathan Tysen and Chris Miller
New Georges Theatre
for Magic Kingdom by Jake-ann Jones and Bruce Purse
Vineyard Theatre
for Miracle Brothers by Kirsten Childs
2002
Debra Barsha
Peter Jones
Julia Jordan
Michael Korie
Peter Mills
Lark Theatre Company
for Normal by Cheryl Stern, Tom Kochan and Yvonne Adrian
P73 Productions
Signature Theatre Company
for The Unknown by Janet Allard, Jean Randich and Shane Rettig
2001
John Bucchino
Mindi Dickstein and Daniel Messé
Laurence O'Keefe
Robert Reale and Willie Reale
Scott Davenport Richards
Amanda Yesnowitz
Children's Theatre Company
for The Snow Queen by Ruth Mackenzie
Theatreworks/USA
2000
Beth Blatt and Jenny Giering
Chad Beguelin and Matt Sklar
Scott Burkell and Paul Loesel
David Kirshenbaum
John Mercurio
David Simpatico
Adobe Theatre Company
for A Fish Story by Erin Purcell, Gregory Jackson and Michael Garin
American Music Center
Musical Theatre Works
for The Girl Most Likely to... by Zina Goldrich, Marcy Heisler, Denis Markell and Douglas Bernstein
O'Neill Musical Theatre Conference
1999
Kirsten Childs
Sam Davis
Peter Foley
Ricky Ian Gordon
Steven Lutvak
Musical Theatre Works
San Diego Repertory Theatre
for The Princess and the Black-Eyed Pea by Karole Foreman and Andrew Chukerman
Seattle Childrens Theatre
West Coast Ensemble Theatre
for The Vanishing Point by Rob Hartmann, Scott Keys and Liv Cummins
1998
Paul Scott Goodman
Jeffrey Lunden and Arthur Perlman
Adirondack Theatre Festival
Vineyard Theatre
1997
52nd Street Project Theatre
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