Gain the tools to build bold new musicals
Our caring and brilliant faculty will revolutionize your understanding of musical theater form while supporting exploration and your unique voice.
Are you an aspiring or early-career musical theater writer?
Musical Creators’ Institute is proud to offer an in-depth training for composers, lyricists, librettists, and directors of musical theater.
We are now accepting applications for the MCI Graduate Certificate Program.
What Students Are Saying
“MCI will teach you what you need to know about the craft and then give you all the space and support to build your authentic voice as a writer. You learn the rules AND how to break them successfully.”
-Hayley Goldenberg
Winner, Johnny Mercer 2023
Co-Founder, Women & Theatre
“We were ultimately gifted the creative freedom that we needed to engage with our unconventional show, while at the same time also being held to the highest standards of storytelling by our peers and faculty.”
Semifinalist, Eugene O’Neill NMTC 2022
The Harder They Come, The Public
-Ian Yan
"MCI is truly a program like no other. The faculty, led by the incredibly insightful Sam Carner, cares about each student - not only as a musical theater creator, but also as a person.”
-Julia Sonya Koyfman
Winner, Johnny Mercer 2023
Winner, NMI Search for New Musicals 2021
