Thursday, September 24th, 2009
(347) 730-4478
robkendt@gmail.com
Theatre
• In the works: Untitled musical about filmmaker Ed Wood with librettist/lyricist Justin Warner
“Angora”
• The Devil and Tom Walker, Metropolitan Playhouse, 2008
Composer/lyricist/music director/performer for adaptation of Washington Irving short story (writer Anthony Pennino, dir. Yvonne Conybeare), currently licensed by PlayScripts
“Opening: The Devil’s Hi-Ho & Captain Kidd”
“Tom Walker’s Theme”
“Petitioners’ Proposals”
“I Have Known Men”
• Sona Tera Roman Hess, Theatre of NOTE, 2008 (dir. Kiff Scholl)
“Roosterfish”
• The Inheritors, Metropolitan Playhouse, 2005; dir. Yvonne Conybeare
Main title
• The Strip, 2002-2003: Weekly late-night serial at Evidence Room; various directors
“Sitcom Detective”
• An Appalachian Twelfth Night, Fall 2002: Composer/music director/performer for backwoods version of Shakespeare play (dir. Susan Lambert); L.A. Drama Critics Circle nomination for Music Direction
“Come Away Death”
“Viola’s Theme”
“I Am Gone, Sir”
• Uncle Vanya, Summer 2002: Classical Theatre Lab production at the Met Theatre and Pacific Resident Theatre (dir. Bruce Katzman)
Themes
• Suicide in B Flat, Winter 2002: Sam Shepard play at Company of Angels
Opening
• They Simply Said Enter, Fall 2001: Adaptation of Persian poem The Conference of the Birds with cast of 7 adults and 21 elementary-age students of New Horizon Islamic School in Pasadena; part of Cornerstone Theater Co.’s Festival of Faith
“The Moth Song”
“To Keep, To Carry”
• For Here or To Go?, Winter 2000: Cornerstone Theater Co. holiday show at the Mark Taper Forum (dir. Bill Rauch)
Film
• Taken to the Lowlands, 2007 (dir. Daniel Fine)
“Drive to Fun Park”
• Pee Stains and Other Disasters, a.k.a. Ben et Thomas, 2005 (dir. Mike Horelick)
“Train My Ear”
• The 24-Year-Old Virgin, 2004 (dir. Doug Eboch)
“Sexytime”
• Every Day a Little Death, 1992 (dir. Susan Lambert)
Intercut
• Queen of Diamonds, 1991 (dir. Nina Menkes)
“Roman Carnival”
• Providence, 1990 (dir. David Mackay)
Title theme
• Escape From Heaven, 1989 (dir. Tim Doyle)
“Bruno & Paula”
Arranger/bandleader
Extensive experience leading a variety of ensembles, from rock to choral to chamber music. Wrote and staged two original solo cabarets, “Words & Music,” and “Don Brekt’s Soft-Shoe Jamboree,” and recorded two CDs of original music, I Hope It’s Me and I’m Not Sentimental. Currently choir director at Greenpoint Church. Recipient of the 2009 Nightingale-Bamford School’s Hannukah Commissioning Project.
Choice selections:
“Each Is a Dream” (featuring the Red Hook Ramblers)
“Ballad of the Squanderer”
“The Girl Who Went Away” (featuring Rebecca Hart)
“Happiness Is a Warm Gun a la Marcos Valle” (Lennon & McCartney)
“I Close My Eyes” (C. Paul)
“Lullaby”
“My Life in Pants”
“Only the Lonely/Je Te Veux” (Davis/Satie)
“Oracion de San Francisco” (featuring Melodee Fernandez)
“Pleasure Doin’ Business”
“Poems” (Sondheim)
RiffTrax theme
“Shelter From the Storm”
“Suspicious Parties”
“Take Me Away”
“Vin Rouge”
Training
BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop (NY), 2006-present
UCLA Film Scoring Program, 2005
Jazz theory with Arlette McCoy, 2001-2003
Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop (L.A.), 1991-1993
B.A. in Film Production, University of Southern California, 1990
