How Not to Hate Your Survival Job
Survival jobs. I mean until we reach that Lin-Manuel-Stephen-Schwartz hybrid of greatness, most of us MT writers are largely dependent on a day job or side hustle to sustain ourselves. It's …
Survival jobs. I mean until we reach that Lin-Manuel-Stephen-Schwartz hybrid of greatness, most of us MT writers are largely dependent on a day job or side hustle to sustain ourselves. It's …
Okay, so. This may seem like an awkward thing to say, but you don’t have to like your writing partner all the dang time. In fact, I think it’s impossible to. You’re making …
Writer’s block. It’s the worst. It’s haunting, it's emotionally complicated, and it fills us with crippling self-doubt. It’s a tricky beast that comes for us all at s…
Musical Theatre writing is tricky business, and as writers, we are always searching for inspiration in terms of song and structure. Structure. I had to say that one again, because quite fran…
Having witnessed my fair share of musical theatre auditions, I've come to realize that it's a lot harder to choose a contemporary pop song to present than we may assume. I see a lot …
So we're in a business filled with rejection. Shocker, right? I know, I told you something you absolutely didn’t know. You're welcome. Look, nobody likes rejection. Especially …
The process of rewriting in musical theatre (or anything for that matter) is a tedious one. You finish a draft of this monster you’ve been crafting for however long, you’re super…