The works will be selected by a jury consisting of three persons: two members of the International Music Theatre Committee: Laura Berman and Roland Quitt. Internationally recognized director and curator Ong Keng Sen, Singapore, does Music Theatre Now the compliment of being a jury member.

Laura Berman

US-born curator and dramaturge Laura Berman has lived in Germany since 1983. Her main interest lies in New Music in interaction with other elements of the dramatic arts. As an independent dramaturge she has worked for the Vienna Festwochen, Bayerische Staatsoper, Schwetzinger Festspiele, Berliner Festspiele, the ballet of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus and the Zurich Ballet. Following engagements in Münster and Darmstadt, she became senior music dramaturge at Theater Freiburg, and since October 2007 she has been artistic director of the Bregenzer Festspiele's "Kunst aus der Zeit" programme.

Ong Keng Sen

Artistic director of TheatreWorks in Singapore for the last fifteen years, Ong Keng Sen is an active contributor to the evolution of an Asian identity and aesthetic for contemporary performance in the 21st century. Keng Sen studied intercultural performance with the Performance Studies Department at Tisch Schools of the Arts, New York University, and holds a law degree.
In 1994, Keng Sen conceptualized his most important work, The Flying Circus Project, a laboratory project that brings together traditional and contemporary Asian artists from the fields of theatre, music, dance, video, visual arts and ritual who work together on projects that explore the concepts of reinvention, cultural negotiation and the politics of interculturalism. From this experience, he initiated a new network for Asian artists to dialogue and engage with each other in 1999, known as the Arts Networks Asia (ANA). He directed the Tokyo premiere of Lear in 1997, which then went on to tour eight cities in Asia, Europe, and Australia, including a performance at Berlin's Theater der Welt 1999.
In 2002, he embarked on a new Asian arts exchange project in Laos engaging with the local youths, elder artists and international Asian artists called The Continuum Asia Project (CAP).
Ong Keng Sen's "docu-performances" pieces explore today's Asia through history and confrontation of self - recent projects are The Global Soul - The Buddha Project which premiered in June 2003 in Berlin and Singapore, Diaspora and Geisha, both realized in 2006. The Global Soul is a meditation about travel - time travel, travels in our imagination, travels in our heart, travels to find the meaning of life, travel in our memory, normal travel for business, for leisure. It embraces the tales of Buddha, jet lag, airports, global currency, butoh, liyuan opera, Korean court songs and a contemporary soundscape. More see http://theatreworks.org.sg

Roland Quitt

studied Music, Philosophy and German at Berlin's Freie Universität. After some years working in fringe theatre as a director, actor and head of an opera ensemble, he began working as a dramaturge for various theatres. From 1998 to 2004 he was "dramaturge for new music theatre" at Theater Bielefeld and is currently music dramaturge at Nationaltheater Mannheim.

Since 1996 a main focus of his work has been the field of advanced contemporary music theatre. While in Bielefeld, he founded the visible music series as a field for experimentation in forms of music theatre beyond opera, which was later continued in Mannheim. He has been responsible for the conception and awarding of contracts for several world premieres, and has collaborated with many of Europe's leading composers for new music theatre.