April 18-21, 2024

Presented by the Ira Brind School of Theater Arts

POLYPHONE 2024

POLYPHONE 2024

FESTIVAL OF NEW AND EMERGING MUSICALS

  • The Doctor is Dead

    Book, Music & Lyrics by é boylan
    Co-Directed by é boylan and Rose Freeman
    Music Direction by Maya Kociba

    A contemporary fantasy for queer imaginations, The Doctor is Dead follows a secret society of trans outcasts living underground. Using their unique abilities to investigate a mysterious empty coffin, our outcasts sing a song of leaving, of grief that becomes giving, of what begins in the end.

  • Sweetwater

    Book & Lyrics by Patricia Noonan
    Music by Liz Filios and Sean Mahoney
    Directed by Megan Nicole O’Brien
    Choreographed by Kat Borrelli
    Music Direction by Garrick Vaughan

    As World War II shakes the nation, sisters Beth and Frankie journey to Sweetwater, Texas, where they join with women from across the country to fly for the US Army Air Forces.

    From the fringes of the history books, Sweetwater brings the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) center stage in a story of duty, love, sisterhood, and the joys and costs that come with being pioneers.

  • 10th Anniversary Concert

    Directed by James Bruenger-Arreguin
    Music Direction by Joey Rice

    Join us as we revisit ten years of Polyphone with a concert featuring songs and artists from past festivals. We will celebrate the cutting-edge work developed at Polyphone that has pushed the form toward a limitless and exciting future.

Polyphone would not be possible without the generosity of Peter Haas and Doug Kreitzberg, as well as Suzanne Kreitzberg, whose memory the festival honors through its participants’ work.