Brief Bio:

Gary William Friedman is the composer of the Obie Award winning, Tony nominated musical THE ME NOBODY KNOWS. His music spans the worlds of theater, pop, television and film. Other Broadway / Off-Broadway credits include PLATINUM, TAKING MY TURN (presented on PBS as part of its Great Performances series),SHEBA and THE LAST SUPPER. His orchestral and liturgical works have been commissioned and performed at venues such as the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the Lancaster Music Festival. He served as Music Director for T.V.’s “The Electric Company”, for which he wrote numerous songs including the popular “Spider-Man Theme Song”. He has produced and arranged several pop/jazz CDs through 150 Music, a record label he created with his wife, singer-lyricist Stevie Holland. The Obie Awards, short for Off-Broadway Theater Awards, are annual awards bestowed by the newspaper The Village Voice on theater artists performing in New York City. ... What is popularly called the Tony Award (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award) is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American theater, including musical theater. ... For other usages see Theatre (disambiguation) Theater (American English) or Theatre (British English and widespread usage among theatre professionals in the US) is that branch of the performing arts concerned with acting out stories in front of an audience using combinations of speech, gesture, music, dance, sound and spectacle — indeed... Look up pop on Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Films are produced by recording actual people and objects with cameras, or by creating them using animation techniques and/or special effects. ... This article is about the street in New York City. ... Off-Broadway plays or musicals are performed in New York City in smaller theatres than Broadway, but larger than Off-Off-Broadway, productions. ... The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is a non-profit public broadcasting television service with 349 member TV stations in the United States. ... Great Performances was a television series devoted to the performing arts which ran on the US television station PBS from 1972. ... The Kennedy Center as seen from the Potomac River. ... Title card from The Electric Company. ... Spider-Man swinging around his hometown, New York City. ...

Official Website: http://garywilliamfriedman.com

IMDB link: http://us.imdb.com/Name?Friedman,+Gary+William