Michael Skloff is best known as a TV & Film composer. Most notably he wrote the theme song “I’ll Be There For You” for the hit NBC comedy series FRIENDS, for which he received an Emmy
Award nomination. He was also nominated for an Emmy for the main title theme to HBO’s comedy series DREAM ON. For the past eight years he and his son Sam KS have been the co-composers for the popular Netflix comedy series GRACE AND FRANKIE.

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Mr. Skloff also continues to write ‘art’ music for different applications including music for the stage, worship,concert halls, and musical theatre. He’s the composer of the musical stage adaptation of the
Dudley Moore hit movie ARTHUR; and was vocal arranger and co-producer of Randy Newman’s songs in Disney’s JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH. As a film score composer, he’s worked with directors: John Landis, Jason Gould, Jason Alexander, Roberta Grossman, Sophie
Sartain, among others.

Michael is also widely known as a performer and music director, having
appeared on The Tonight Show and the Jerry Lewis Telethon as well as Music Director for Jenifer Lewis, Jasmine Guy, Jason Alexander, Bruce Vilanch, to name just a few. And for a short
time he successfully produced and released a number of artists’ work on his former label, Electric Monkey Records.

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Michael received his BFA in Music Composition from Carnegie-Mellon University and his MFA Performer-Composer from California Institute of The Arts.

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Learn more about Michael at IMDb.