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“It was an incredible experience to work with the students to actualize the script and work with the director to workshop the piece. I developed some new wonderful collaborators in the process and felt supported as an artist.”
— Ty Defoe - Book and Lyrics, Hart Island Requiem, Polyphone 2019
“For me Polyphone was a rare space defined by curiosity, guts, and an extremely loving (and necessary) scrappiness and nimbleness. At the center of the process were the most brilliant and giant-hearted UArts Students who taught us what we were making with love, care, and a healthy sense of the absurd. I wish everything could be made at Polyphone.”
— Sam Pinkleton - Director/Choreographer, MARIE IN TOMORROW LAND, Polyphone 2019
“Working at the Polyphone Festival brought me into a new collaborative community filled with brilliant thinkers and theater makers, and my work as a book writer and lyricist on a new ensemble musical was greatly buoyed by the talented students and recent graduates who were in our rehearsal room.”
— Jaclyn Backhaus - Book and Lyrics, Folk Wandering, Polyphone 2017
“This type of development opportunity is incredibly rare and will stretch the imagination of the possibilities for new musicals. Polyphone is an important opportunity for the development of boundary-pushing new musical theater that will meet the desires and demands that current musical audiences have been waiting for and future generations of musical theatergoers will cherish.”
— Claire Tran - Book and Lyrics, Akira and the Merpeople, Polyphone 2020