MUT Authors’ Competition 2018
Winners
»La Maupin« (Jury Prize)
»Die fürchterlichen Fünf« (Audience Award)
»Mary and Max« (Media Award)
Final Pieces
»Devotion« by Mark Sonnenblick (music, book and lyrics)
»Die fürchterlichen Fünf« by Sebastian Brandmeir (music) and Florian Stanek (book and lyrics)
»La Maupin« by Jared Field (music) and Jessie Field (book and lyrics)
»Mary and Max« by Bobby Cronin (music and lyrics) and Crystal Skillman (book)
»Propaganda! The Musical« by Taylor Ferrara and Matt Webster (book, music and lyrics)
»Under the Overture« by Ronald Kaehler (music, book and lyrics) and Jeremy Franklin Goodman (orchestration and additional arrangements)
Cast
Delia Rachel Bauen, Marcella DʼAgostino, Madina Frey, Elvin Karakurt, Fabiana Locke, Sophie Mefan, Patrizia Unger, Simon Tobias Hauser, Julian Schier, Niklas Schurz, Alexander Sichel, Chris W. Young (students of the Musical course at the Theatre Academy August Everding and the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich), Pauline Rinvet (student of the Musical Theatre/Opera Singing course at the Theatre Academy August Everding and the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich), Stefan Thomas (ensemble member of the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz) under the direction of Nicole Claudia Weber and the musical direction of Liviu Petcu
Jury
Adam Cooper (West End choreographer and director), Matthias Davids (director and Artistic Director of the musical section at the Landestheater Linz), Eva Giesel (Managing Director of Litag Theaterverlag GmbH), Séan Gray (Managing Director of Josef Weinberger Ltd. London), Jürgen Hartmann (Dramaturg of Musik und Bühne Verlagsgesellschaft mbH), Josef E. Köpplinger (Chairman of the Jury, Artistic Director of the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz, director), Kathrin Kondaurow (Design. Artistic Director of the Staatsoperette Dresden), Peter Lund (director, author, Head of the Musical/Show programme at the Berlin University of the Arts), Michael Alexander Rinz (Managing Dramaturg of the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz), Werner Signer (Managing Director of the Theater St. Gallen), Markus Spiegel (music producer and media consultant), Moritz Staemmler (Managing Director of Felix Bloch Erben GmbH & Co. KG), Dr. Maria Teuchmann (Managing Director of Thomas Sessler Verlag GmbH), Christoph Wagner-Trenkwitz (Chief Dramaturg of the Volksoper Wien), Johanna Wall (Dramaturg of the Komische Oper Berlin)
Media Jury
Wolfgang Aschenbrenner (BR-Klassik / Bayern plus Showbühne), Dr. Stefan Frey (BR-Klassik / Redaktion Operette), Georgia Guillaume (ORF), Tobias Hell (Münchner Merkur), Klaus-Dieter Kräft (musicals ‒ Das Musicalmagazin), Philipp Seidel (Chief of Feuilleton Landshuter Zeitung / Straubinger Tagblatt, Abendzeitung), Oliver Wünsch (Blickpunkt Musical), Michael Zirnstein (Süddeutsche Zeitung)
A cooperation with the August Everding Theatre Academy and the Munich Academy of Music and Theatre
