Kim Oler is an American television and theatrical composer. He is a member of the BMI and Dramatists Guild. Retrieved on September 4th, 2004.
Positions held
* Composer on ''
Little Women
''Little Women'' is a coming-of-age novel written by American novelist Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888).
Alcott wrote the book, originally published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869, at the request of her publisher. The story follows the lives ...
'' (2005) '' Pets!'', '' When the Cookie Crumbles'', ''The Secret Garden'', ''Class Clown'', ''Harriet the Spy'' and ''Babes in Toyland'', ''
All My Children
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The Hanoi Hilton
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'' (1987)
Work with Alison Hubbard
Although composer Kim Oler and lyricist Alison Hubbard's songwriting work on the musical adaptation of ''
Little Women
''Little Women'' is a coming-of-age novel written by American novelist Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888).
Alcott wrote the book, originally published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869, at the request of her publisher. The story follows the lives ...
'' 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. They left the show in April 2000, 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
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'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 Sean Hartley, perhaps best known for his work on the musical '' Cupid and Psyche'', to help him arrange a Spring concert with musical material from various winners of the Richard Rodgers Award. Hartley had been impressed by their songs from ''Little Women''. Broadway producer turned-community theatre producer
John Wulp
John Wulp (May 31, 1928 – November 27, 2018) was an American scenic designer, producer, director, and artist.
Theatrical career
Wulp's first play, ''The Saintliness of Margery Kempe'', won a Rockefeller Grant and was produced at the Poets' Th ...
listened to Oler and Hubbard's original songs, and asked for the two to put their version together with bookwriter Hartley. It was produced in Wulp's North Haven Island community/educational theatre, where it ran for sixteen performances in 2006. Kim Oler, Alison Hubbard and Sean Hartley's ''Little Women'' is published by Theatrical Rights Worldwide, and has been produced throughout the United States, in Canada and Australia.
After contacting Raymond de Felitta, the director/screenwriter of the 2000 independent film ''
Two Family House
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ASCAP
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/ Disney Workshop in New York City. 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 Daytime Emmy awards in the category Outstanding achievement in Music Direction and Composition for a Drama Series—for his original solo piano music and underscoring work on ''
All My Children
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''. He was nominated from 2002 to 2008, and won twice in 2003 and 2005. His two Emmy Awards were shared with Terry Walker,
A.J. Gundell
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Credits
*''All My Children''
*'' The Guiding Light''
Discography
His songs ha ...
Gary Kuo
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Mike Renzi
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John Wineglass
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Brian Comotto
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Loris Holland
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Holland grew up in the British Guyana, in a family which forbade any music other than hymns ...
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Robbie Kondor
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Brian Tarquin
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Jim Klein
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. Oler's work on AMC also won two BMI Television Music Awards in those same years.
Kim Oler, lyricistAlison Hubbard and librettist
Allan Knee
Allan Knee is an American film and television writer and playwright who authored the following:
Stage
*''Little Women'' (Broadway musical) (2005)
*''The Man Who was Peter Pan'' (42nd Street Workshop 'Off-Broadway. (March 1998)
*''Late Nite Comic' ...
together won a
Richard Rodgers
Richard Charles Rodgers (June 28, 1902 – December 30, 1979) was an American Musical composition, composer who worked primarily in musical theater. With 43 Broadway musicals and over 900 songs to his credit, Rodgers was one of the most ...
award in 1998 for their musical ''
Little Women
''Little Women'' is a coming-of-age novel written by American novelist Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888).
Alcott wrote the book, originally published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869, at the request of her publisher. The story follows the lives ...
''. Oler and Hubbard won another Richard Rodgers Development Award in 2010 for ''Buddy's Tavern.''
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''. The following year he won the BMI Foundation's Jerry Bock Award for Sustained Creative Achievement.
References
Further reading
* ''Between the Lines: Sources for Singing the Living Tradition''; page 162. By Jacqui James. Publisher Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations, 1998. /