Curtis Moore
Photo by Gene Reed
I write music that tells stories — on Broadway, in film and television, and on stages around the world. Along the way, I’ve had the great fortune to collaborate with artists including Tom Hanks, Sam Mendes, Amy Sherman-Palladino, Tom Stoppard, George C. Wolfe, Phil Ramone, Kristin Chenoweth, Katie Holmes, Jack O’Brien, and Kelli O’Hara.
With my longtime writing partner Thomas Mizer, I wrote, arranged, and conducted the songs for the Amazon Prime hit series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel — earning three Primetime Emmy nominations for Best Original Music and Lyrics, a World Soundtrack Award, and a Hollywood Music and Media Award. I also scored the FOX animated series HouseBroken, starring Emmy winner Lisa Kudrow — and if you don’t blink while watching Amy Sherman-Palladino’s Étoile, you’ll spot me on screen as “the Conductor.”
On Broadway, I composed the music for Nora Ephron's Lucky Guy starring Tom Hanks and directed by George C. Wolfe. With lyricist Thomas Mizer, I received the Fred Ebb Award and the Jonathan Larson Grant — two of musical theater’s highest honors for songwriting. Together we’ve written the musicals Triangle (winner of six Theatre Bay Area Awards), The Legend Of Stagecoach Mary, and The Bus To Buenos Aires. With Amanda Green and Matthew Brookshire, we wrote For The Love Of Tiffany. My Shakespeare scores include Timon of Athens at the Public Theater, and Hamlet and Othello at the Old Globe in San Diego.
As music supervisor of Venice, I helped shape what Time magazine called “the year’s best musical” during its sold-out, extended run at the Public Theater.
Up next: Remember the Night with Universal Pictures, The Amazing Mr. X — a noir musical thriller with the Michael Cassel Group — and the new musical Regency Girls — written with Amanda Green, Jen Crittenden, and Gaby Allan (Veep) — which premiered to critical acclaim at The Old Globe and is headed for Broadway. This summer, I return to The Old Globe with original music for Barry Edelstein’s Much Ado About Nothing.
For the screen, I’ve also written songs for Todd Solondz’s film Palindromes and music for PBS’s Great Performances, Industrial Light & Magic, MTV, and CBS.
I’m also an orchestrator, arranger, conductor, and music producer. I conducted and performed in The Bridge Project’s acclaimed world tour of Richard III, directed by Sam Mendes.
My orchestrations and arrangements have been heard in Coast of Utopia at Lincoln Center Theater, the London revival of Pippin, and the original cast recordings of The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin, Sleeping Beauty Wakes, and Ernest Shackleton Loves Me.
I’m a graduate of Northwestern University, based in New York City, and proud to support the Entertainment Community Fund, Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, Covenant House, and the Ali Forney Center for LGBTQ youth.
“the year’s best musical”
“Be A Little Less Stupid… is one of the best new comic songs to come along in ages.”
“...astonishingly successful. The Moore-Mizer score is rich in melody and emotion…what really counts here is just how moving the stories are and how the songs heighten the emotion”
“Curtis Moore’s toe-tapping, up-tempo score is a lively mix of ballads, pop songs and musical theater styles.”
Awards, Grants, and Residencies
Three Prime Time Emmy Nominations for Original Music and Lyrics, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, 2023, 2022, 2020
2023 World Soundtrack Award, Best Original Song “Your Personal Trash Man Can”
Hollywood Music and Media Award for best original song for a TV Show or Limited Series, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, 2022
Fred Ebb Award for excellence in music theater songwriting, 2016
Theatre Bay Area Awards: Outstanding World Premiere Musical; Triangle, 2015
ASCAP/NYU Film Scoring Best Composer Award, 2012
Jonathan Larson Theater Grant – The American Theater Wing, 2009
Eugene O’Neill Theater Grant, 1998, 2000, 2006
National Endowment for the Arts, orchestration grant, 2002