Composer Douglas Romayne

Composer Douglas Romayne scored 8 seasons of network television series and 25 films including award-winning features, documentaries and shorts since 2002. He was hired by Joss Whedon to score "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (season 7 - 2002) for 20th Century Fox/Mutant Enemy. He co-scored 33 episodes of "Angel" (seasons 4 and 5 ) for Fox/Mutant Enemy and 12 episodes "Miracles" for ABC/Touchstone TV with Rob Kral. He scored "Duck Dodgers" (seasons 1-3) for Warner Bros. Animation with two other composers, winning the 2005 Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement in Music in an Animated Television Show (awarded to team leader Rob Kral). He also scored on "Day Break" for ABC/Touchstone TV with Mark Kilian.

His feature film work includes scoring the LA Screamfest Crystal Skull winner H.H. Holmes: America's First Serial Killer, independent features and documentaries. He scored additional music for Chris Beck on Universal's The Skulls III, The Skulls II and USA Network's Wolf Girl and orchestral source music for Imagine's Stealing Harvard, Universal's Big Fat Liar and Bob Gale's Interstate 60: Episodes of the Road.

Romayne continues to build relationships with emerging directors, scoring their student and debut feature films, including the award winning Beyond The Silence by Luci Kwak, The Truth About Faces by Lindsey Shockley, Rocketboy by Justin Guerrieri, Antebody by James P. Gleason, Shelter by Luke Hutton, Sunday Paper p.2b and Paper Cut by Eric Towner, Patching Cabbage by Peter Rhoads, The Jackalope by Joseph Guerrieri, Three Days by Adrian Fulle and many more.

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Education/Training

The New York native took music theory in high school and earned his undergrad degree in music composition. At the graduate level, he studied advanced orchestration and jazz arranging with Cliff Colnot, Chicago Symphony Orchestra MusicNOW conductor, at the University of Chicago and DePaul. In between grad school and college, he took private composition studies with Hans Wurman, who introduced Romayne to film scoring by sharing credit on Non Plus Ultra by Chilean director Adriana Zuanic and encouraged the composer to pursue scoring for film. While studying with Colnot, he scored on two A&E series for Bill Kurtis Productions. He moved to Los Angeles to attend the USC Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television Program, graduated with the BMI Film Music Scholarship (2000) and went to work with fellow USC alumnus, Christophe Beck.

At Beck's studio, Romayne worked on a number of films including Dreamwork's The Tuxedo and was assigned Assoc. Music Director on the "Buffy" musical, "Once More, With Feeling," which was nominated for an Emmy in Music Direction. He left Beck's studio in the fall of 2002 to score "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and has been working steadily as a composer.

About

Douglas Romayne scores film and television out of his project studio in Marina del Rey, California. He is a member of BMI, Film Independent, The Society of Composers and Lyricists and the American Federation of Musicians.

Romayne is repped by Linda Kordek, The Agency Group/LA and managed by Karrie Vickery, Bleu Jean Management. Schedule permitting, the composer attends premieres, screenings, festivals and has joined his filmmakers on panel discussions and Q&A sessions. He recently developed a film music seminar, "DIRECTING THE COMPOSER: A Workshop For Filmmakers."

To learn more about his work, visit his official site: douglasromayne.com

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Album Projects

Romayne released a collection of 8 independent film scores on "Expressing the Inexpressible" The scores include those to FREEDOMLAND, ENTITY: NINE, SHELTER, ROCKETBOY, BEYOND THE SILENCE, ANTEBODY, SUNDAY PAPER p.2b, THE TRUTH ABOUT FACES and bonus tracks. To purchase the album, visit iTunes, the online retailer CD BABY or the Movie Score Media Shop, Film Music Downloads.

He has produced and arranged on album projects for several artists, including three with songwriter/producer Jane Wang Beck. The albums, released through Primal Beat Creations Corporation, focus on preserving traditional songs or chants from Tibet with music accessible to a broader audience.