CSArts-SGV and mediaV, a Santa Monica-based production company, have partnered to develop the “Incubator Project,” a one-of-a-kind collaboration that gives students within the Musical Theatre Conservatory the opportunity to be the first to originate and produce a series of new rock musicals. MediaV founders and philanthropists Russell Meyer and Marcy Shaffer have given $50,000 to the school to support the development of two world premieres over the next two school years. Using the works of William Shakespeare as source material, the Incubator Project creates modern and musicals to be premiered by CSArts-SGV students, and subsequently made available for the public to license and perform.