Signature Theater acquires $30K for new musicals.

The recipients of the “Next Generation” grants are composers in their 20s and 30s whom Signature identified as songwriters of considerable potential and who already have had their work produced or recorded. The three are: Adam Gwon, a composer-lyricist whose musical “Ordinary Days” receives a premiere this summer in Pennsylvania; Matt Conner, who set the poetry of Edgar Allan Poe to music in Signature’s 2006 premiere of “Nevermore”; and Gabriel Kahane, a composer whose “Craigslistlieder” is a song cycle he fashioned from classified ads on the Web site Craiglist.

Via Artsjournal.