Each year winning plays receive a staged reading in TADA!'s Annual Staged Reading Series. Past winners have included Robin Rice Lichtig, Sandra Fenichel Asher, Doug Cooney and Stephen Phillip Policoff.
Winning playwrights receive a cash award and a staged reading as part of TADA!’s Annual Staged Reading Series. In addition, winning playwrights have the option to have their play included in TADA! Originals, a script marketing catalogue.
If you have any questions please feel free to contact Joanna Greer, Associate Artistic Director by phone at (212) 252-1619; ext. 17 or e-mail to jgreer@tadatheater.com
TADA! offers original musical theater productions three times a year, a unique year-round Resident Youth Ensemble composed of 40-50 NYC kids ages 8-18, renowned education programs and theater classes in schools and at TADA!, taught by professional teaching artists.
Over the past 19 years, TADA!--a not-for-profit, 501(c)3, youth theater--has created a unique niche in the New York City theater community: children working with professional directors, playwrights, composers, lyricists, choreographers and designers on original musicals. TADA!'s high quality, original works reach children on an emotional, intellectual and intuitive level because performances are by children, about children and for children. TADA! does not merely "cultivate" a future audience for the theater--children become enthusiastic theatergoers in the space of one show.
TADA! musicals highlight the joy of childhood, the magic of the theater and the endless possibilities of youth. A TADA! musical is truly a rare and special experience; not at all your typical children's theater piece. TADA's musicals are commissioned for our Resident Youth Ensemble, ages 8 to 18. Since children and teenagers are at the center of what we do both on stage and off, our musicals entertain and inspire without being condescending or childish.
TADA! is always looking for new writers to work with and maintain an "open-door" policy towards new and exciting work and ideas. If you are interested in writing a commissioned musical for TADA!, please see below for submission guidelines. Please note: TADA! does not generally produce already completed or previously produced works.
A brief summary of the play (including number of child, teen, and adult characters and a brief technical summary of the piece i.e. set, costumes, etc.),10-pages from the script , a CD or cassette tape with songs from the score and a copy of two songs of the actual score. Once your material is submitted it will take anywhere from 2 to 3 months to evaluate. If we are interested in your work we will mail you a letter requesting the entire script and score. (See the guidelines below.)
If you have a musical or an idea that you think would be perfect for TADA! the guidelines are as follows:
Mail all materials to:
Jim Colleran, Resident Musical Director
15 West 28th Street,3rd Floor
New York, New York 10001