04/27/2026
Our last musical finalist is With Rice by Tidtaya Sinutoke.
Tidtaya Sinutoke (ฑิตยา สินุธก) is a Jonathan Larson Grant, Billie Burke Ziegfeld Award, Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship, and Fred Ebb Award-winning theatre composer and writer. Select composition and writing credits: DEAR MR. C, with lyricists Lily Ali-Oshatz and Naomi Matlow (Diverse Voices Playwriting Initiative Award, Polyphone, Village Theatre’s Festival of New Musicals, LMCC Grant); WITH RICE (MOCA’s Performing Artist-in-Residence); KHAM (Drama League Special Residency, Dramatic Question Theatre’s American Fellowship, Step1 Theatre R&D); "things I drew and songs I wrote" (Pipeline Theatre's PlayLab); and THE ADVENTURES OF SKY AND FRIENDS (New Victory Theater’s LabWorks, Filament’s SPARK Residency). Her works have been developed and supported by the Composer-Librettists Studio at New Dramatists, Yale Institute for Music Theatre, Johnny Mercer Foundation, NYFA IAM Mentoring Program, Robert Rauschenberg Residency, Kurt Weill Foundation, American Opera Projects, Tofte Lake Center, Loghaven Artist Residency, MOCA, and Rhinebeck Writers Retreat. A proud member of ASCAP, Dramatists Guild, Maestra, MUSE, Siamese Collective, and Thai Theatre Foundation. MFA: NYU. tidtayasinutoke.com.
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