PHILLIP PALMER

Phillip Palmer is the winner of the Fred Ebb Award for Musical Theatre Songwriting and the BMI Jerry Bock Award, as well as a finalist for the Richard Rodgers Award and the Jonathan Larson Grant, for My Heart Is the Drum, his first musical (book by Jennie Redling, lyrics by Stacey Luftig). Drum received its world premiere at Village Theatre, and was developed at the NAMT Festival of New Musicals, the Goodspeed Johnny Mercer Writers Colony, Kent State University, and the BMI Lehman-Engle Musical Theatre Workshop. Phillip is currently working on Amelia and Me (book and lyrics by Stacey Luftig), which has been developed at Florida State University, New York SongSpace, and the Rhinebeck Writers Retreat. He wrote the music for The Weatherman (book and lyrics by Alisa Klein Hauser, Clear Space Productions, and Network One-Act Festival). He is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music.