Our Program
Performing Arts
Dance
Drama
Music
Poly is Dance, Drama, and Music!
Poly Prep’s Performing Arts program enables students to explore the creative process and develop confidence as they express themselves through dance, drama, and music. Our teachers, professional artists in their fields, inspire students to act with imagination as they find their creative voices and come to know the challenges and joys of the artistic process.
Our performing arts curriculum is an exciting combination of in-school courses and wide-ranging extracurricular activities, all of which build skills and encourage students to pursue their artistic interests. At the Middle School level, students are introduced to creative movement, dramatic arts, and general music. All three of these are required elements of the 5th and 6th grade curriculum. From 7th-12th grade, students may begin to choose from a variety of performing arts electives, which allow them to pursue their passion as far as they wish to go, including both AP courses and options for independent study in the Upper School.
Many Middle and Upper School students additionally perform in dance, theater, and vocal and instrumental music productions. The department strongly supports independent projects in all its disciplines, including the annual student-run Afternoon of Student Choreography, senior theater directing projects, music composition, and chamber music groups.
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Performing Arts Faculty
List of 15 members.
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Michael Robinson
Title: Head of ArtsBusiness Phone: (718) 836-9800 ext. 6130Education: Bennington College - BA
Goddard College - MFA -
Dan Doughty
Title: Performing Arts Department ChairBusiness Phone: (718) 836-9800, ext. 6890Education: Westminster College - Pa. B.Mus
Brooklyn College - M.Mus.Ed
New York University - Kodaly Certification -
Jill Bolstridge
Title: Performing Arts (Middle School)Business Phone: (718) 836-9800, ext. 6300Education: Roger Williams University - BA
Long Island University - MA -
Carrie Dowell
Title: Performing ArtsBusiness Phone: (718) 836-9800 ext. 6892Education: Butler University - BM
Kent State University - MM
Longy School of Music - Graduate Performance Diploma -
Simone Ferraresi
Title: Performing Arts (Music)Business Phone: (718) 836-9800 ext. 6891Education: Frescobaldi Conservatory - BA
Academy of Music (Vienna)
Royal Academy of Music (London) - Dip. RAM -
Eddie Fitzgerald
Title: Associate Director of Debate Program -
Caleb Goh
Title: Performing Arts (Upper School)Education: Queensland University of Technology - BA
San Diego State University - MA
Edith Cowan University - PhD -
Ashley Hacker
Title: Performing Arts (Middle School)Business Phone: (718) 836-9800 ext. 6741Education: College of Brockport - BFA, BS
New York University - MA -
David Higham, P'07
Title: Theater Manager and Technical Director (Upper School)Business Phone: (718) 836-9800, ext. 3380Education: University of Western Australia -
Jennifer Nelson, P'12, '14, '19
Title: Music and Chorus Teacher (Lower School)Business Phone: (718) 836-9800, ext. 6542Education: Cincinnati Conservatory of Music - BMus, MMus
Conservatoire National de Strasbourg (France) - Medaille d'Or -
Pamela Pollock
Title: Performing Arts (Middle/Upper School)Business Phone: (718) 836-9800, ext. 6470Education: Binghamton University, SUNY - BA
New York University - MA -
Stephen Taylor
Title: N-K Music (Lower School)Business Phone: (718) 836-9800, ext. 6275Education: Middlebury College - BA -
Janna White
Title: Director of Forensics and DebateBusiness Phone: (718) 836-9800 ext. 6803Education: George Mason University - BA -
Orrin Wilson
Title: MS/US Music TeacherEducation: Southern University A&M College - BM
Southeastern Louisiana University - MM
University of Nebraska - DMA -
Maddy Wyatt
Title: Accompanist/Music (Upper School)Business Phone: (718) 836-9800 ext. 6987Education: University of Michigan - BFA
Confidence, teamwork, and self-expression: these are essential components of mind, body, and character. Poly students have known this since the 1890s when they formed the school's first Dramatic Society. Today, Poly turns a new spotlight on theater, music, and dance. We are setting the stage for leadership in the arts.
Lower School
50 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn, New York 11215 | (718) 768-1103
Middle/Upper School
9216 Seventh Avenue, Brooklyn, New York 11228 | (718) 836-9800