Dan Romer
Dan Romer | |
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| Genres | Film and television score, pop, electronic, new-age, jazz |
| Occupations | Film composer, music producer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter |
| Instruments | Piano, keyboards, synthesizer, accordion, guitar, bass guitar, lap steel guitar, banjo, mandolin, ukelele, percussion |
| Website | www |
Dan Romer is an American film composer, music producer, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter based in Los Angeles.[1]
Career
As a film composer, Romer's scores include four-time Oscar-nominated Beasts of the Southern Wild, Beasts of No Nation, Chasing Coral, Gleason, The Good Doctor and the Emmy-winning Jim: The James Foley Story.[2] His score for the HBO miniseries Station Eleven was also nominated for an Emmy in 2022.[3] Romer scored the Ubisoft video game Far Cry 5 released on March 27, 2018.
He has produced music for numerous artists including A Great Big World and Christina Aguilera, whose single "Say Something", topped charts around the world, hit 6× Platinum, sold over seven million copies, and won a 2015 Grammy. Dan co-produced "Treat You Better" by Shawn Mendes which reached No. 1 on the iTunes chart and No. 3 on the US Top 40 pop radio charts in September 2016.[2] Romer composed the score to the Pixar animated feature film, Luca,[4] which was the most-watched streaming film of 2021, with over 10.6 billion minutes watched.[5][6][7] He worked with Justin Paul on the incidental underscore for Stephen Chbosky's 2021 film adaptation of Broadway musical Dear Evan Hansen.[8] He also scored the television series Superman & Lois (2021–24),[9] A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (2026)[10] and the 2025 live-action remake of Lilo & Stitch.[11]
Discography
As composer
Film
| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Death to the Tinman | Ray Tintori | Short films |
| 2008 | Glory at Sea | Benh Zeitlin (2) | |
| 2012 | Beasts of the Southern Wild | Co-composed with Benh Zeitlin | |
| Sleepwalking in the Rift | Cary Joji Fukunaga | Short film | |
| 2014 | Tomorrow We Disappear | Jim Goldblum & Adam M. Weber | Documentary films |
| The Last Season | Sara Dosa | ||
| The Life and Death of Tommy Chaos and Stacey Danger | Michael Lukk Litwak (2) | Short films | |
| The Organization | |||
| 2015 | Walter | Anna Mastro | |
| Digging for Fire | Joe Swanberg | ||
| Finders Keepers | Bryan Carberry & J. Clay Tweel | Documentary film | |
| Stryka | Emily Carmichael | Short film | |
| Mediterranea | Jonas Carpignano | Co-composed with Benh Zeitlin | |
| Beasts of No Nation | Cary Joji Fukunaga (2) | ||
| Napoleon in Exile | Michael Lukk Litwak (3) | Short film | |
| 2016 | Jim: The James Foley Story | Brian Oakes | Documentary films |
| Gleason | J. Clay Tweel (2) | ||
| Katie Says Goodbye | Wayne Roberts | ||
| 2017 | The Little Hours | Jeff Baena | |
| Chasing Coral | Jeff Orlowski | Documentary film | |
| Freak Show | Trudie Styler | ||
| Brimstone & Glory | Viktor Jakovleski | Documentary film | |
| Win It All | Joe Swanberg (2) | ||
| A Ciambra | Jonas Carpignano (2) | ||
| Shot in the Dark | Dustin Nakao-Haider | Documentary film | |
| Krystal | William H. Macy | ||
| 2018 | Dinosaur | Jim Goldblum (2) | Short films |
| Period. End of Sentence. | Rayka Zehtabchi | ||
| Zoe | Drake Doremus | ||
| Skin | Guy Nattiv | ||
| 2020 | Wendy | Benh Zeitlin (3) | |
| 2021 | After Antarctica | Tasha Van Zandt | Documentary film |
| Luca | Enrico Casarosa | ||
| A Chiara | Jonas Carpignano (3) | Co-composed with Benh Zeitlin | |
| Dear Evan Hansen | Stephen Chbosky | Incidental score; co-composed with Justin Paul; original songs by Pasek and Paul | |
| Ciao Alberto | McKenna Harris | Short film | |
| 2023 | Self Reliance | Jake Johnson | |
| Mustache | Imran J. Khan | ||
| Crater | Kyle Patrick Alvarez | Co-composed with Osei Essed | |
| The Promised Land | Nikolaj Arcel | ||
| Woman of the Hour | Anna Kendrick | Co-composed with Mike Tuccillo | |
| Genie | Sam Boyd | ||
| Amelia | Lorenzo Nicolino | Short film | |
| 2024 | My Dead Friend Zoe | Kyle Hausmann-Stokes | [12] |
| Who Am I | Johanna Block | ||
| The Bitter Pill | J. Clay Tweel (3) | Documentary film | |
| 2025 | Death of a Unicorn | Alex Scharfman | Replaced John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter and Daniel Davies; co-composed with Giosuè Greco[13] |
| Lilo & Stitch | Dean Fleischer Camp | Original themes by Alan Silvestri[11] | |
| Horsegirls | Lauren Meyering | ||
| 2026 | The Accidental Spy | Guy Ritchie | |
| Next Life | Drake Doremus (2) | ||
| Cottagecore | Sonja O'Hara |
Television
| Year | Title | Creator(s) | Developer(s) | Awards | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–2019 | Easy | Joe Swanberg | N/a | N/a | Episodes "Controlada" and "Chemistry Read"[14] |
| 2017–2021 | Atypical | Robia Rashid | N/a | N/a | N/a |
| 2017–2024 | The Good Doctor | N/a | David Shore | Winner of an ASCAP Screen Music Award | N/a |
| 2018 | Maniac | Patrick Somerville | Cary Joji Fukunaga Patrick Somerville |
N/a | N/a |
| 2019–present | Ramy | Ramy Youssef Ari Katcher Ryan Welch |
N/a | N/a | Co-composed with Mike Tuccillo |
| 2020–2021 | Love Life | Sam Boyd | N/a | N/a | Co-composed with Mike Tuccillo |
| 2021–2024 | Superman & Lois | N/a | Greg Berlanti Todd Helbing |
N/a | N/a |
| 2021–2022 | Station Eleven | Patrick Somerville | N/a | Emmy Nominee (Original Score in a Limited Series) | N/a |
| 2022 | Little Demon | Darcy Fowler Seth Kirschner Kieran Valla |
N/a | N/a | Composed with John Zarcone |
| 2022–2025 | Stranger Things | The Duffer Brothers | N/a | N/a | Composed with Rob Simonsen |
| 2026 | A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms | Ira Parker George R.R. Martin |
N/a | N/a | Game of Thrones themes by Ramin Djawadi[10] |
Video games
| Year | Title | Publisher | Awards | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Far Cry 5 | Ubisoft | [15] |
Music producer
| Year | Song | Artist | Certifications |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Coalmine | The Woes | |
| 2005 | Batten the Hatches | Jenny Owen Youngs | |
| 2009 | Transmitter Failure | Jenny Owen Youngs | |
| 2009 | Everybody | Ingrid Michaelson | |
| 2010 | Songs for a Sinking Ship | April Smith and the Great Picture Show | |
| 2012 | Safe Travels | Jukebox the Ghost | |
| 2013 | "Say Something" | A Great Big World & Christina Aguilera | RIAA: 6× Platinum, ARIA: 4× Platinum, MC: 6× Platinum, RMNZ: 2× Platinum, GLF: 2× Platinum, BPI: 1× Platinum, IFPI: 1× Platinum |
| 2014 | Is There Anybody Out There? | A Great Big World | The album debuted on the Billboard 200 at No. 3. |
| Jukebox the Ghost | Jukebox the Ghost | ||
| 2015 | When the Morning Comes | A Great Big World | US Billboard No. 75 |
| 2016 | "Treat You Better" | Shawn Mendes | RIAA: 3× Platinum, MC: Platinum, ARIA: 3× Platinum, BPI: Platinum, FIMI: 3× Platinum |
| 2018 | "We Can Do Better" | Matt Simons | |
| 2021 | Dear Evan Hansen | Various artists | Nominated for Best Original Motion Picture Soundtrack at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards |
References
- ^ "Dan Romer Keeps it Simple with the Portico 5012". Rupertneve.com. October 22, 2009. Archived from the original on January 14, 2010.
- ^ a b Wacey, Rob. "Dan Romer Biography", AllMusic. Retrieved May 30, 2017.
- ^ "Station Eleven - Emmy Awards, Nominations and Wins". emmys.com. 2022.
- ^ "We announce today Luca's music composer: the amazing Dan Romer". Twitter. Retrieved April 2, 2021.
- ^ Hailey McCullough (January 24, 2022). "Disney/Pixar's Luca Was the Top Streaming Movie of 2021". CBR. Archived from the original on January 26, 2022. Retrieved January 26, 2022.
- ^ Richard Fink (January 22, 2022). "Pixar's Luca Is The Most Streamed Movie of 2021 According to Nielsen Charts". ScreenRant. Archived from the original on January 26, 2022. Retrieved January 26, 2022.
- ^ "'Luca' and 'Lucifer' were the most watched movie and series in streaming in 2021". Hot Movies News. January 22, 2022. Archived from the original on January 26, 2022. Retrieved January 26, 2022.
- ^ "Dan Romer & Justin Paul Scoring Stephen Chbosky's 'Dear Evan Hansen' | Film Music Reporter".
- ^ "Dan Romer Scoring The CW’s ‘Superman & Lois’," Film Music Reporter.
- ^ a b "Dan Romer Scoring HBO's 'A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms'". Film Music Reporter. Retrieved October 8, 2025.
- ^ a b "Dan Romer Scoring Disney's 'Lilo & Stitch' Live-Action Movie". Film Music Reporter. February 3, 2025. Archived from the original on February 10, 2025. Retrieved February 4, 2025.
- ^ "Dan Romer Scoring Kyle Hausmann-Stokes' 'My Dead Friend Zoe'". Film Music Reporter. January 10, 2024. Retrieved June 25, 2025.
- ^ filmmusicreporter (February 18, 2025). "Dan Romer & Giosuè Greco Scoring Alex Scharfman's 'Death of a Unicorn'". Film Music Reporter. Retrieved February 24, 2025.
- ^ "Dan Romer filmography", IMDb. Retrieved February 20, 2018.
- ^ Kelly, Andy. "The apocalyptic music of Far Cry 5", PC Gamer, September 28, 2017. Retrieved September 28, 2017.