Across a Crowded Room 2025 Meet & Greet

Please sign up for only one category even if you are willing to perform multiple roles.

Since 2014, The Billy Rose Theatre Division at the Library for the Performing Arts has presented Across a Crowded Room, a free, annual program that provides a space for musical theatre makers to network, create new work together, and develop their skills. In the first meeting participants will get to know each other and form groups of three to work together over the course of the summer.

This year, we are also going to add a second meet up session where directors and actors will meet each other and join existing teams.

In additional sessions, this year held in person in the Harvey Fierstein Lab, participants will present their work to established composers, lyricists, and bookwriters for feedback and advice. The program will conclude with an in-person presentation of the musicals at the Library for the Performing Arts this fall.

This year's timeline:

• June 28, 2025 (11:00 AM - 1:00 PM): In person meet and greet at the Library
• Additional workshops to be announced throughout the summer
• Final presentations in November, 2025, live in the Bruno Walter Auditorium

Photo Credit: Martha Swope, 1983.

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