🎭 NEW@NAMT: The Next Wave of Musical Theatre Writers – Featuring Elissa Adams (Theater Latté Da)
In this Season 3 episode of NEW@NAMT: Arts Leaders, hosts Jean-Paul Yovanoff and Skye Cone Ivey sit down with Elissa Adams, Associate Artistic Director & Director of New Work at Minneapolis’s Theater Latté Da — one of the nation’s most vibrant homes for innovative musical theatre.
🎙️ With a career spanning La Jolla Playhouse, Children’s Theatre Company, Sundance Theatre Lab, and now Latté Da, Elissa shares deep insight into commissioning and dramaturgy, how to build meaningful partnerships with artists, and why Minneapolis is fertile ground for musical theatre development.
🎶 Elissa also discusses Theater Latté Da’s NEXT Festival, the values behind its curation, and how her work on NAMT’s Festival Committee continues to shape the national landscape for new musicals.
✨ Plus: her favorite opening number, what’s giving her hope about the future of the form, and the cast recording track she’ll never skip.
If you care about bold storytelling, dramaturgical rigor, and the future of new musicals, this episode is full of wisdom you won’t want to miss.
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