After the breakup of the Suburbs, Poling devoted himself to a career writing music for film and television. Poling has scored several independent films, including #Snow, #The Toilers, and #Bill's Gun Shop; his music for the broadcast documentary #Iron Range a People's History earned him an Emmy award. Poling's music has also been used on such television series as #Roseanne and #Melrose Place, the PBS documentary #The Revolutionary War, and the HBO special #Back to Back. Poling has also branched out into composing for musical theater; he wrote the score for the off-Broadway musical +Children of Paradise: Shooting a Dream, which was named Best New Play in 1993 by the American Theater Critics Association. Poling's score was released on CD that year, making it his first post-Suburbs solo release. In 2002, Poling released Calling All Stars, his first collection of pop songs since the Suburbs' swan song in 1986; he's also been working on a musical, called +Heaven, to be produced by Kevin McCollum, who also brought the hit musical +Rent to the stage. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi