Douglas Romayne

Douglas Romayne
Born	June 21, 1974
Genres	Film score
Occupation(s)	Composer, conductor, orchestrator, music producer, songwriter, instrumentalist
Instruments	Guitar, piano
Years active	Since 2002

Douglas Romayne (born June 21, 1974) is a composer writing music for moving pictures (television, film, new media). He is Irish, Scottish and Croatian and works out of his home production studio in Venice, California.

Romayne studied music and advanced orchestration at the University of Chicago and DePaul University with Cliff Colnot, Chicago Symphony Orchestra new music conductor and took private composition studies with composer Hans Wurman, father of Alex Wurman. He studied film scoring at the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television Program, where he was taught by Christopher Young and Elmer Bernstein among others. He won the BMI Film Music Award, the PCFMF Gold Medal for Outstanding Achievement in Film Music, Best Use of Score nomination by The Film & TV Music Academy and co-scored the Duck Dodgers episode "Invictus Interruptus" that won the Annie Award for Outstanding Music in an Animated Television Production.

Two years after graduating from USC, Romayne was invited by Joss Whedon to score his cult series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Since then, Romayne has scored 8 seasons of television and over 30 films. He met Whedon while working for Chris Beck as Assistant Music Director on the Emmy-nominated Buffy the Vampire Slayer musical "Once More, with Feeling". Following Buffy Romayne co-scored seasons four and five of Whedon's "Angel" for Fox, David Greenwalt's supernatural thriller Miracles, Rob Bowman's action-packed series starring Taye Diggs "Day Break" for Touchstone TV and Warner Bros. Animation's Looney Tunes series Duck Dodgers.

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