John Moran (composer)

John Moran (born 1965) is an American composer, choreographer, and theater artist. and his works are variously described as “unconventional”, His works bring together a variety of mediums, including recorded music, spoken word, choreography and dance, mime, lip syncing, and video. Early life and education John Moran was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, in 1965. He lacks a formal education in composition and in fact never graduated from high school. He unsuccessfully attempted to study informally at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, where his father was the assistant dean of arts and sciences. He moved to New York City in 1988 at age 23, Career Early career: 1988–2000 Moran’s first opera, Jack Benny!, was created in 1988, and composed entirely of snippets of sound from The Jack Benny Program television series. The piece was staged at New York’s La Mama Experimental Theater Club, where it was presented by performance troupe Ridge Theater, and received strong praise in publications such as The New York Times. Although the work was considered a benchmark for modern composition at the time, the work itself was reportedly stolen in a Lower East Side apartment robbery, and has not been presen