Kim Oler
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| Occupation(s) | Television, film, theatre composer |
Kim Oler is an American television and theatrical composer. He is a member of the BMI and Dramatists Guild.[1]
Positions held
- Composer on The Guiding Light.[3]
- Orchestrator on The Hanoi Hilton(1987)
Work with Alison Hubbard
Although composer Kim Oler and lyricist Alison Hubbard's songwriting work on the musical adaptation of Little Women won them a Richard Rodgers Development Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1998, the musical did not make it to Broadway.[2] They left the show in April 2000,[2] and began work on other musical theatre projects at the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop in New York, including a musical version of Arthur Wing Pinero's The Enchanted Cottage with librettist Thomas Edward West. This musical was chosen for development in the National Association of Musical Theatre 2003 Festival of New Musicals in New York, and was subsequently produced at the Spirit of Broadway Theatre in Norwich, CT.
In 2003 Oler and Hubbard were asked by lyricist/librettist
After contacting
It won the Richard Rodger's Development Award in 2010, was developed in the 2012 Eugene O'Neill Musical Theatre Conference in Waterford, CT, and received a production workshop at the York Theatre in New York in 2013, starring Alexander Gemignani and Laura Osnes.Awards and nominations
Kim Oler has been nominated for four
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Kim Oler also won the 2002 BMI Jerry Harrington Award for Outstanding Creative Achievement in the Musical Theater for his work on the musical version of The Enchanted Cottage.[3] The following year he won the BMI Foundation's Jerry Bock Award for Sustained Creative Achievement.[3]
References
- ^ The Enchanted Cottage - Music and Lyrics Archived 2008-10-05 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved on September 4th, 2004.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j "For the Ousted Rodgers Award-Winning Songwriters of Little Women, the Show Goes On". Kenneth Jones, Play Bill.com. 2005-02-05. Archived from the original on 2007-09-15. Retrieved 2008-09-04.
- ^ a b c d "Theatrical Rights - Kim Oler resume". www.theatricalrights.com. 2006. Archived from the original on December 1, 2007. Retrieved 2008-09-04.
Further reading
- Between the Lines: Sources for Singing the Living Tradition; page 162. By Jacqui James. Publisher Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations, 1998. ISBN 978-1-55896-331-3
External links
- Kim Oler at IMDb
- Kim Oler at the Internet Broadway Database
- Kim Oler at Stage Pass.com