The Boston Music Theatre Project (BMTP) is the oldest professional organization in the Greater Boston area dedicated to supporting the work of early and mid-career composers and librettists and the development of new musicals. The theatre department also commissions professional writers to create original musicals with theatre department students. Past BMTP musicals have appeared in the Nashville Opera, New York Musical Theatre Festival, Prince Music Theatre, and off-Broadway. Hershel Garfein and Robert Aldridge's new opera Elmer Gantry, originally developed by BMTP, recently received three Grammy nominations.