Graduate Musical Theatre Writing

Biography

Polly Pen is a 1996 Obie Award winner for the score of BED AND SOFA which received seven Drama Desk nominations and was recently recorded on CD by Varese Sarabande. Her first off- Broadway production as both composer and co-author, GOBLIN MARKET, received five Drama Desk nominations and the BEST PLAYS Special Citation for Musical Composition and Adaptation. Other works include HER LIGHTNESS (Sarasota Opera), THE DUMB CAKE (McCarter Theatre), and CHRISTINE ALBERTA'S FATHER (Vineyard Theatre) which received a Richard Rodgers Award, and Obie and a Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding Music. Polly is the recipient of a Gilman & Gonzalez-Falla Commendation Award and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. Polly serves on the board of Dramatists Play Service, the council of The Dramatists Guild and was recently elected to the nominating committee of the Tony Awards. She is currently a National Theatre Artist-in-Residence at the McCarter Theatre.