STEPHEN GILBANE

Composer for Film, TV, & Theater

Steve won a New England Emmy Award in 2023 for Outstanding Musical Composition/Arrangement for the music he composed and orchestrated for the 5-episode series, "Slatersville: America's First Mill Village", which premiered on Rhode Island PBS on September 16, 2022.  He is currently working on  Season 2, which is in post-production.  

Steve has composed music on the fly for comic & dramatic scenes as an improv theater accompanist in Boston since the early '90's.  He has also taught theater improvisers how to make up songs on the spot.  He attended Berklee College of Music for Film Scoring, back when projects were on VHS tape.

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He has written the music for the feature length slasher film "Bit Parts", as well as for several shorter horror films for Elftwin Productions.  He has scored half a dozen 48 Hour Film Project submissions, honing his skills composing under extreme deadlines.  He also has written music for a number of musicals, including 10 Halloween-themed 'Gorefest' musicals for ImprovBoston, as well as his own latest noir parody "Lost Cellphone Weekend".