Pam Hyde, Playwright, Producer, Dramaturg

         

          As a mild dyslexic, my creative writing started in second grade where I necessarily learned that it was far easier to make-up stories and write fictional book reports than to actually read real books. Though they never once let on that they knew about the fabricated book reports, by fifth grade, my teachers were asking me to re-write stories into play form and re-write the lyrics of popular songs to fit the themes of the various plays that classes were to perform. I didn’t know then that playwright and lyricist were to be two of my callings.

          Fifty-two years later I co-wrote ten original rap songs, each based on a symptom of bipolar disorder, and wrote them into a story about two new friends, their respective mental illnesses and their construction of a popular new musical genre, College Rap.  In the interim fourteen years since I first copyrighted Bipolarity, I brought four musical reviews, Bring It Home Broadway, Radio Days, Forever Hollywood, Back to Broadway and one full-fledged musical, Sea Cruise, to Denver audiences. 

           I’ve been asked by many “Why now? Why are you bringing Bipolarity to fruition now?”

          “Well, last March I saw Kinky Boots and remembered that art is just about getting it out there.” So, here it is. “I'm getting it out there.”  I proudly present to you, Bipolarity, an avant-garde musical.