Songs from "Welcome to Keene, NH"
Lyrics by Brian James Polak
Music composed by Matt Schatz

Live Free Or Die

There Is A Street

The Sculptor

You Wait

This audio was recorded February 10, 2018 at a "Mortified" event at Lincoln Hall in Chicago, IL. 

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Mortified Chicago 2.10.18

Brian James Polak: Mortified Chicago 2/10/18

Hush Relax

Recorded in March of 2020, this a collection of voicemails from playwrights living all over the country sharing their thoughts and coping mechanisms in the time of COVID-19. This is a 15 minute edit. The full cut was the March 2020 release for The Subtext podcast, presented by American Theatre magazine: https://www.americantheatre.org/2020/03/23/the-subtext-coronavirus-edition/

Carry Water, Chop Wood: Writers in the Time of Social Distance

Play title: The Smoking Room
Written & Performed by: Brian James Polak

Synopsis: En route to his mother's funeral, a man finds himself stuck in smoking room of the Detroit airport. A conversation with a stranger has unexpected results as he fears the confrontation he'll have with his father as soon as his plane touches down in Buffalo.

The Smoking Room

Fledglings, written and performed by Brian James Polak

A man describes a seminal moment from childhood when he turns the corner  between lightness and dark.

Brian James Polak

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