Hart Island Requiem

University of the Arts, Polyphone Festival

HART ISLAND is the United States’ most documented potter’s field. Located in the Bronx, an estimated one million people have been buried there, from 1869 to the present day. In this musical, the undocumented, impoverished, and forgotten dead gather at an abandoned theme park to remember their life and death. Hart Island Requiem asks what happens to these souls when they are unable to rest in peace in America?

POLYPHONE is a festival of new and emerging musicals at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. The festival brings composers, librettists, directors, choreographers and music directors from the field onto the campus to work with student casts, creatives, and musicians on never before produced musicals.

MUSIC BY: Tidtaya Sinutoke
WORDS BY: Ty Defoe
DIRECTOR: Eva Steinmetz
ASSIST. DIRECTOR: Elana Mariani
CHOREOGRAPHER: Chelsea Murphy
MUSIC DIRECTOR: Dorie Byrne & Tidtaya Sinutoke
ASSOC. MUSIC DIRECTOR: Adam Rineer & Ian Smith
COSTUME DESIGN: Corrie Meehan
SET/PROP COORDINATOR: John Wendling & Raquel Cannon
LIGHTING DESIGN: Larry Barnes
SOUND DESIGN: Toby Pettit
DRAMATURG: Cass Meehan & Becca Smith
SCRIPT SUPERVISOR: Scout Cox
STAGE MANAGER: Kereni Sanchez

CAST:
Zac Baccaro, Wes Hopkins, McKenna Kelly, Hannah Sattazahn, Lorenza Barnisconi, Devon Spencer Lynch, David Thomas, Emma Pillow, Lexi Thammavong, Madison Mullahey, Arielle Telemaco-Benae, Solimar Riquelme, Faith Dansberry, Lauren Kelly Caroline Lewis, Maryan Muhammad, Isabelle Negrete, Max Nolan, Garrett Tuaty, Shayne Vasquez, & Kaitlyn Zion

MUSICIANS:
Dorie Byrne, Adam Rineer, Evan Cory Levine, Jayden Bowie-West, Ian Smith, & Rachel Icenogle