The NMPA S.O.N.G.S. Foundation supports the National Endowment for the Arts and the American Theatre Wing each year to award the winners of their Musical Theatre Songwriting Challenge. Since 2017 the S.O.N.G.S. Foundation has contributed over $75,000.
2021 S.O.N.G.S. Foundation Honorees
Check back soon for this year’s winners.
2020 S.O.N.G.S. Foundation Honorees
Learn more about the Songwriting challenge winners here.
2019 S.O.N.G.S. Foundation Honorees
Check out the 2019 winners here.
2018 S.O.N.G.S. Foundation Honorees
Watch the performances from the finals here and on Playbill.
2017 S.O.N.G.S. Foundation Honorees
2018 Winner
About NEA’s Musical Theater Songwriting Challenge
This national contest is for high school students with a passion for writing songs that could be part of a musical theater production and the wide range of musical styles represented in contemporary musicals. The goal of the program is to engage the musical theater field in nurturing the next generation of songwriters.