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'John Gromada' (b.1964) is a prolific, award-winning composer and sound 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 include 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 the New York Shakespeare Festival earned him a Village Voice Obie Award in 1991. In 1996 he won a Drama Desk award for his musique concrete soundscore for Caryl Churchill's ''The Skriker'', directed by Mark 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'', and ''Red Devil Battery Sign''.
★ John Gromada at the Internet Broadway Database
★ John Gromada at the Lortel Off-Broadway Database
★ Gromada music samples
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 the New York Shakespeare Festival earned him a Village Voice Obie Award in 1991. In 1996 he won a Drama Desk award for his musique concrete soundscore for Caryl Churchill's ''The Skriker'', directed by Mark 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'', and ''Red Devil Battery Sign''.
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External links
★ John Gromada at the Internet Broadway Database
★ John Gromada at the Lortel Off-Broadway Database
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★ Gromada music samples
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