- John Gromada
John Gromada (b.1964) is a prolific, award-winning
composer andsound designer . He is best known for his many scores for theatrical productions in New York on and off-Broadway and in regional theatres. Broadway plays he has scored includeChazz Palminteri 's "A Bronx Tale ",David Auburn 's "Proof", Lisa Kron's "Well", "Rabbit Hole ", and "A Few Good Men" ; revivals of "Prelude to a Kiss", "Summer and Smoke ", "Twelve Angry Men " and "A Streetcar Named Desire".He first emerged on the theatre scene in the late 1980s creating powerful soundscores blending original music and abstract sound design. His industrial music score for Sophie Treadwell's "
Machinal " at theNew York Shakespeare Festival earned him a Village VoiceObie Award in 1991. In 1996 he won aDrama Desk Award for hismusique concrete soundscore for Caryl Churchill's "The Skriker ", directed byMark Wing-Davey also at NYSF.In recent years he has also become known for his lyrical, acoustic chamber scores, particularly for his work on the plays of
Tennessee Williams . Williams plays he has scored include "The Glass Menagerie ", "A Streetcar Named Desire", "Sweet Bird of Youth ", "The Night of the Iguana ", "Camino Real", "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof ", "Summer and Smoke", "A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur", "The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore "and "Red Devil Battery Sign".Gromada recently composed the theme music for the new Granada USA television series, The Interrogators, which will air in fall of 2008.
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* [http://www.lortel.org/LLA_archive/index.cfm?search_by=people&first=John&middle=&last=Gromada John Gromada] at theLortel Off-Broadway Database Listening
* [http://www.broadjam.com/artists/artistindex.asp?artistID=23917 Gromada music samples]
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