Greg O'Connor is a composer and songwriter who has composed scores for over 30 television series and has written numerous featured songs for TV, films and commercials. He is a Primetime

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winner and a four-time Emmy nominee. He has scored projects including variety, single camera comedy, multi camera comedy, animation, one hour drama, game show, sketch comedy, award show, stand up, reality, hidden camera, documentary, commercials and virtual reality.

Early life

O'Connor was born in

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. O'Connor is a graduate of

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’s Music School as well as the Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television Program at

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. He began studying music at age six, taking piano lessons at the Bryn Mawr Conservatory of Music in Bryn Mawr PA, a suburb of Philadelphia. O'Connor also played alto saxophone for eight years. His education included performing in various ensembles, either as a pianist, saxophonist or vocalist, including concert band, jazz band, glee club and various top 40 bands throughout high school and college.

Career

Early in his career, O'Connor wrote the score for the Emmy Award-winning '' Ben Stiller Show'' and ''

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'' on FOX. He also composed the underscore for all three seasons of the hidden camera series ''

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'' and the ABC

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cop drama ''

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'', starring

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and

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. He has written two

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Top 20 songs with collaborator

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for the band

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, as well as the song " Here With Me" for the Chicago album ''

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''. He produced five songs for the

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album ''

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'', as well as Manilow's hit Christmas single "Christmas is Just Around the Corner." O'Connor was the composer, songwriter and musical director for all 14 seasons of the hit sketch comedy show ''

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'', David Allen Grier’s comedy series

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, Jeff Foxworthy’s variety show Blue Collar TV and

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’s series Super Dave Spike-Tacular. Additionally, he was the musical director and composer for the ABC reality competition series ''The Next Best Thing''. Greg O'Connor- Composer

O'Connor wrote and produced two songs for the film ''

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'', starring

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, Aiden Quinn and Brooke Shields, one of which was performed by Shields. He wrote and produced three featured songs for

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’s directorial feature film debut, ''

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'', as well as two featured songs in the

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movie '' Clutch Powers''. O'Connor produced and wrote songs for the animated Lionsgate movie '' Foodfight'' and produced two songs for

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artist

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on the Camille soundtrack for Oscar-winning producer Al Ruddy. O'Connor wrote all the opening songs for the ABC summer series

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, produced by Grammy producer

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. In the science fiction thriller genre, O'Connor also scored the virtual reality series Defrost, directed by

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, which is one of the first long form dramatic series in this new groundbreaking genre. O'Connor co-wrote the theme song with actor

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for his Ten Minute Podcast starring Will,

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and Bryan Callan. Greg scored the animated feature fil
Bobbleheads The Movie
fo
Universal Pictures
and co-wrote 4 songs for the film. Greg wrote the feature
“Laura Dern” song
for the 2020 Film Independent Spirit Awards that instantly went viral, and was featured in every major publication and news outlet. He composed the main title theme for the newly release
Disney+
serie
Prop Culture
In 2020, Greg composed the company logo music fo
House of Paine Entertainment
for Academy Awards produce
Rob Paine
as well as the logo fo
Threshold Entertainment
for produce
Lawrence Kasanoff
Greg composed the theme song fo
The Caliendo Cast
for actor comedia
Frank Caliendo

Awards

References

External links

Official Website
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LinkedIn Profile
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