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Polly Pen

1998 Gilman & Gonzalez-Falla Musical Theater Award recipient. Polly Pen is the 1996 Obie Award winner for score of Bed and Sofa which received seven Drama Desk nominations and has been recorded on CD by Varese Sarabande. Her first Off-Broadway productions as both composer and co-author, Goblin Market , received five Drama Desk nominations and the Best Plays Citation for Musical Composition and Adaptation.

Other works include Her Lightness (Sarasota Opera), The Dumb Cake (a radio musical for NPR), and Chritina Alberta's Father (Vineyard Theatre) which received a Richard Rodgers Award, and Obie and a Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding Music. Polly is a National Theatre Artist-in-Residence at McCarter Theatre as a recipient of Pew/Tcg grant. Polly is an adjunct professor at NYU's Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program. She serves on the board of Dramatists Play Service, the council of The Dramatist Guild and on the nominating committee of the TONY Awards.

Polly's most recent work, The Night Governess, premiered at McCarter Theatre this past season. Current projects include Embarrassments for the Wilma Theatre and The Flitch for the McCarter Theatre.