Doug Fallon(I)
- Composer
By birth, nature, and inclination, Doug Fallon is a native son of
Brooklyn, New York. At the age of 6, Doug began his formal study of the
piano, which ended when he was 13. Although Doug was largely
self-taught after that, he did study selected courses in composition at
the Dalcroze School of Music, Manhattan School of Music, and privately
with composer Peter Golub. Through the years, Doug's music has been
admired by such noted composers as Robert Starer and Otto Luening, as
well as film director Arthur Penn.
It was the playwright Ed Bullins, winner of the Obie Award and New York Drama Critics Circle Award, who gave Doug his first break in the theater. After graduating with a M.F.A. in writing from Columbia University, Doug became a member of the New York Shakespeare Festival Writers' Unit at Joseph Papp's Public Theater. Bullins was the director of this workshop, and after hearing Doug play a composition of his own on the piano, asked Doug to compose the music for two of his plays, The Work Gets Done and How Do You Do?, for which Doug received very positive reviews from the New York Times, New York Daily News, and the New York Amsterdam News.
Bullins was also influential in getting Doug's first one-act play, Once, Again, performed as part of The Great American Playwright Show, which included other one-act plays specifically written for the show by such noted playwrights as David Mamet, Israel Horovitz, and Thomas Rickman. Produced by the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles, The Great American Playwright Show later went on tour throughout California, which resulted in Once, Again being nominated for a Theatre Communications Group Playwrights in Process Award.
After becoming an associate member of the playwright division of Actors Studios (again, with the help of Bullins), Doug then went on to compose the incidental music for numerous Off-Off Broadway shows, including his own plays, one of which, The Zou Zou Stick, had originally been given a special presentation, under the auspices of Mr. Bullins' Writers' Unit, at the Public Theater.
In 1992, Doug went to Tokyo, Japan where for the next 3 years he worked as an assistant producer for the long-running hit show World Great Television, broadcast on Nippon Television Network (NTV), Japan's oldest and largest commercial TV network. During his tenure with the show, a skit written by Doug was performed by one of the show's hosts, Takeshi Kitano (aka Takeshi Beat), who is considered one of Japan's foremost film directors today. Doug also contributed music to another hit NTV show, Amazing Moments.
Doug then returned to New York, and after acting as a consultant for Taiwanese TV home-shopping companies, Doug went to work for the next 9 years as Asst. Manager of Special Projects at NTV International Corp. (NTVIC), the U.S. subsidiary of NTV. In 2007, NTVIC was commissioned by Japan's advertising giant Dentsu to create a commercial that detailed the history of Suntory Yamazaki Whisky and Doug was assigned the task of writing the script for it. Some of Doug's musical compositions were also featured in the commercial.
In 2003, Doug began a collaboration with film director William Hopkins, co-scoring two of his films: Sleepless Nights and Demon Resurrection. At present, he and Doug are working together on a graphic novel based on a script written by Doug.
Finally, Doug is an associate member of the Dramatists Guild.
It was the playwright Ed Bullins, winner of the Obie Award and New York Drama Critics Circle Award, who gave Doug his first break in the theater. After graduating with a M.F.A. in writing from Columbia University, Doug became a member of the New York Shakespeare Festival Writers' Unit at Joseph Papp's Public Theater. Bullins was the director of this workshop, and after hearing Doug play a composition of his own on the piano, asked Doug to compose the music for two of his plays, The Work Gets Done and How Do You Do?, for which Doug received very positive reviews from the New York Times, New York Daily News, and the New York Amsterdam News.
Bullins was also influential in getting Doug's first one-act play, Once, Again, performed as part of The Great American Playwright Show, which included other one-act plays specifically written for the show by such noted playwrights as David Mamet, Israel Horovitz, and Thomas Rickman. Produced by the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles, The Great American Playwright Show later went on tour throughout California, which resulted in Once, Again being nominated for a Theatre Communications Group Playwrights in Process Award.
After becoming an associate member of the playwright division of Actors Studios (again, with the help of Bullins), Doug then went on to compose the incidental music for numerous Off-Off Broadway shows, including his own plays, one of which, The Zou Zou Stick, had originally been given a special presentation, under the auspices of Mr. Bullins' Writers' Unit, at the Public Theater.
In 1992, Doug went to Tokyo, Japan where for the next 3 years he worked as an assistant producer for the long-running hit show World Great Television, broadcast on Nippon Television Network (NTV), Japan's oldest and largest commercial TV network. During his tenure with the show, a skit written by Doug was performed by one of the show's hosts, Takeshi Kitano (aka Takeshi Beat), who is considered one of Japan's foremost film directors today. Doug also contributed music to another hit NTV show, Amazing Moments.
Doug then returned to New York, and after acting as a consultant for Taiwanese TV home-shopping companies, Doug went to work for the next 9 years as Asst. Manager of Special Projects at NTV International Corp. (NTVIC), the U.S. subsidiary of NTV. In 2007, NTVIC was commissioned by Japan's advertising giant Dentsu to create a commercial that detailed the history of Suntory Yamazaki Whisky and Doug was assigned the task of writing the script for it. Some of Doug's musical compositions were also featured in the commercial.
In 2003, Doug began a collaboration with film director William Hopkins, co-scoring two of his films: Sleepless Nights and Demon Resurrection. At present, he and Doug are working together on a graphic novel based on a script written by Doug.
Finally, Doug is an associate member of the Dramatists Guild.