The annual musical theatre event provides a platform for emerging and established theatre writers to showcase a 45-minute presentation of their works with casts featuring Broadway and Off-Broadway actors. Many of the new works find life at regional companies, as well as Off-Broadway and on Broadway.
For a complete list of shows featured in NAMT 2014, click here. Here's a look at the shows presented:
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Kate Shindle performs from Dani Girl
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Aaron Jafferis, Rebecca Hart and Yako 440 perform from How To Break
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Doreen Montalvo performs form Cubamor
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Valerie Vigoda, Bryce Ryness and Brendan Milburn perform from Sleeping Beauty Wakes
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Natalie Venetia Belcon perform from Beautiful Poison
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Doreen Montalvo with Janet Dacal and Javier Munox performing from Cubamor
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Josh Dela Cruz, Hansel Tan, Cindy Cheung and Francis Jue perform from Great Wall
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Mamie Parris and Colin Hanlon perform from Mary Marie
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Mamie Parris, Emerson Steele and Kevin Earley in Mary Marie
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Josh Grisetti (center) with Joel Perez, Sergi Robles and Natalie Charle Ellis perform from The Noteworthy Life of Howard Barnes
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Joel Perez, Todd Bunopane, Sergi Robles, Andi Alhadeff, Josh Grisetti, Jenni Barber, Lesli Margherita, Courtney Balan and Mitchell Jarvis perform from The Noteworthy Life of Howard Barnes
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Heidi Blickenstaff and Geoff Packard perform from String
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Nick Wyman, Jeigh Madius, Celisse Henderson, Annaleigh Ashford and Lewis Cleale in Stu For Silverton
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Molly Hager and Katie Thompson perform in a Songwriter Session featuring the work of Michelle Elliot
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Katrina Lenk, Courtney Wolfson, Nikki James and Daniel Breaker perform from Storyville by Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Lisa DeSpain and Julia Jordan at the Songwriter's Showcase
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Abbie Mueller, Emily Walton, Shannon O'Boyle, Derek Klena, Jeremy Morse and Corey Mach sing from October Sky by Michael Mahler and Aaron Thielen in the Songwriter's Showcase
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This year’s NAMT Festival writers. (standing l-r) Charles Vincent Burwell, James D. Sasser, Michael Kooman, Kevin So, Christopher Dimond, Kevin Merritt, Carl Johnson, Chana Wise, Aaron Jafferis, Peter Duchan, Duane Poole. (seated l-r) Sarah Hammond, Adam Gwon, Valerie Vigoda, Rebecca Hart (down front) Brendan Milburn
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For more information visit namt.org.