Avi Amon is a Turkish American composer and sound artist and is a sought-after collaborator in theater, film, and dance.
Amon is the composer of nearly a dozen musicals including: Salonika (Berkeley Rep), The White City (O’Neill NMTC, Yale Institute, Richard Rogers Award Finalist), Through The Sunken Lands (Kennedy Center), and The Lesson (Dramatists Guild Foundation). Theatre work also includes music, songs, and sound design for projects with 600 Highwaymen, Ars Nova, New York Theater Workshop, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, PAC NYC, The Public Theater, Soho Rep, Target Margin, and Waterwell. He recently wrote music for the feature documentary Everything You Have Is Yours, and his film scores have been featured at Disney, HBO, Hulu, Slamdance, and Tribeca Film Festival, to name a few.
Amon has received a Jonathan Larson Grant and major awards from the Dramatists Guild Foundation and New Music USA. He has received additional artistic support from Mercury Store, New Dramatists, New Jewish Culture Fellowship, Shakespeare & Company, and THE WORKSHOP. He is the resident composer at the 52nd Street Project and teaches music composition at NYU Tisch.
While at MacDowell, Avi continued developing Mother/Road, a multimedia music-theater work exploring memory, home, grief, and the unique tension between the joy and loss of the immigrant experience. He wrote songs and developed sonic textures for the work.
