Graham Reynolds
Composer
Called “the quintessential modern composer” by the London Independent, Austin-based composer-bandleader-improviser Graham Reynolds creates, performs, and records music for film, theater, dance, rock clubs, and concert halls with collaborators across a multitude of disciplines.
Heard throughout the world in films, TV, stage, and radio, he recently scored Richard Linklater’s Where’d You Go, Bernadette with Cate Blanchett, Kristen Wiig, and Laurence Fishburne for Annapurna Pictures, Happy Jail for Netflix, the Rude Mechs’ Stop Hitting Yourself for Lincoln Center Theater, Ballet Austin’s Grimm Tales, and a multi-year commission from Ballroom Marfa, The Marfa Triptych. He has performed on an array of legendary stages, from the Kennedy Center to the Green Mill Tavern to the Conan O’Brien Show. His Creative Capital Award winning project, Pancho Villa from a Safe Distance, a bilingual cross-border opera created with librettists Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol (Mexico City) and director Shawn Sides (Rude Mechs), has been staged in over a dozen cities in North America.
As Artistic Director of the non-profit Golden Hornet, he leads efforts which draw on the collaborative spirit of rock bands and the composer-led nature of classical music, with a focus on commissioning new music, fostering young and emerging composers, and presenting adventurous works in non-traditional settings. Alongside Kronos Quartet’s longtime cellist Jeffrey Zeigler, he curated The Sound of Science , an interdisciplinary, multimedia performance that is touring Internationally.
Reynolds leads the jazz-based but far reaching Golden Arm Trio. He is a company member with the internationally acclaimed Rude Mechs theater collective and resident composer with Salvage Vanguard Theater and Forklift Danceworks. His accolades include a Creative Capital Award, an Independent Music Award, two Frederick R. Loewe Music Theatre Awards, ten Austin Critics Table Awards, the John Bustin Award, multiple Austin Chronicle Best Composer wins, and a B. Iden Payne Award. His latest studio effort, MARFA: A Country & Western Big Band Suite, was released in fall 2019. Graham recently signed with the London based label Fire Records and is set to release his original score for Alfred Hitchcock’s silent classic, The Lodger.
Selected Credits
FILM
Hit Man
Empire Entertainment
Director: Richard Linklater
Producers: Jason Bateman, Mike Blizzard, Michael Costigan, Richard Linklater, Glen Powell
Starring: Adria Arjona, Glen Powell, Retta
The Trouble with Ray
Imagination Worldwide
Director: Travis Johns
Producers: Jarrod Gullett, Travis Johns, Michelle Mower
New Year
Mohawk Street Productions
Director: Nathan Sutton
Producers: John Boccardo, Adam McKain
Starring: Neil Jackson, Timothy V. Murphy, Nelson Lee
She Watches from the Woods
Foto Te and Story
Director: Beau Ballinger
Producers: Beau Ballinger, D. Kerry Prior, Karen Skloss Starring: Meredith Garretson, Paulina Lule, Phuong Kubacki
The Ants & the Grasshopper
Bungalow Town
Director: Raj Patel, Zak Piper
Producers: Peter Mazunda, Raj Patel, Zak Piper, Rachel Wexler
Sister Aimee
Kill Claudio Productions
Director: Samantha Buck, Marie Schlingmann
Producers: Bettina Barrow, Seana Flanagan, David Hartstein
Starring: Anna Margaret Hollyman, David Born
*2020 Sundance Film Festival official entry
Where’d You Go, Bernadette
Annapurna Pictures
Director: Richard Linklater
Producers: Megan Ellison, Ginger Sledge, Nina Jacobson
Starring: Cate Blanchett, Kristen Wiig, Judy Greer
Boxer Story (Short)
Director: Lance Myers
Producers: Kirk Carver, Juanice Myers, Marie Slaight
Starring: John Swasey, David Blackwell, Owen Egerton
Last Flag Flying
Amazon Studios
Director: Richard Linklater
Producers: Ginger Sledge, John Sloss
Starring: Bryan Cranston, Steve Carell, Laurence Fishburne
Buttercup (Short)
Chemistry Laboratories
Director: Jason Neulander
Producers: Jason Neulander, Christopher Shea
Starring: Cami Alys, Christopher Lee Gibson, Josephine McAdam
The Honor Farm
Arts+Labor
Director: Karen Skloss
Producers: David Hartstein, Louis Black, Sandy K. Boone
Starring: Olivia Grace Applegate, Louis Hunter, Dora Madison
Before Midnight
Warner Bros.
Director: Richard Linklater
Producers: Christos V. Konstantakopoulos, Sara Woodhatch
Starring: Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick
All Is Bright
GreeneStreet Films
Director: Phil Morrison
Producers: Daniel Carey, Elizabeth Giamatti, Sidney Kimmel
Starring: Paul Giamatti, Paul Rudd, Sally Hawkins
Bernie
Millennium Films
Director: Richard Linklater
Producers: Liz Glotzer, Dete Meserve, Martin Shafer, Ginger Sledge
Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine
Five Time Champion
The Bear Media
Director: Berndt Mader
Producers: Berndt Mader, Ezra Venetos
Starring: Ryan Akin, Justin Arnold, Jill Blackwood
Cubik (Short)
Brenizer Fanthome Films
Director: Jason Brenizer
Producers: Jason Brenizer, Stefan Fanthome
Starring: Fish Chaar, Stefan Fanthome, Laura Kee
Holy Hell
Bayou Radio Productions
Director: Rafael Antonio Ruiz
Producers: L.B. Bartholomee, Randy Bellous, Jeff Scheftel
Starring: Ken Edwards, Ellie McBride, Kenneth Wayne Bradley
FILM (CONTINUED)
I’ll Come Running
Film Science
Director: Spencer Parsons
Producers: Lars Knudsen, Anish Savjan, Jay Van Hoy
Starring: Jon Lange, Kjartan Arngrim, Morten Holst
Gretchen
Film Science
Director: Steve Collins
Producers: Lars Knudsen, Anish Savjani, Jay Van Hoy
Starring: Courtney Davis, John Merriman, Macon Blair
My Electric Bill (Short)
824 Pictures
Director: Chris Ohlson
Starring: Jeffrey Mills
A Scanner Darkly
Warner Independent Pictures
Director: Richard Linklater
Producers: Tommy Pallotta, Jonah Smith, Erwin Stoff, Anne Walker-McBay
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Jr., Rory Cochrane
Cremains (Short)
Microcinema International
Director: Chris Ohlson
Starring: Steve Shearer
The Meat Market (Short)
824 Pictures
Director: Chris Ohlson
Producer: Lilian Ojeda
Starring: Nathan Zellner, David Zellner, Paul
Lonelyland
Sundance Channel
Director: Steve Collins
Starring: John Merriman, Courtney Davis
Moonlight by the Sea
SRS Cinema
Director: Justin Hennard
Producer: Gonzalo Gonzalez
Starring: Sean Allen, Mylinda Royer, Kingsly Martin
I Love You (Short)
824 Pictures
Director: Chris Ohlson
Producers: Jose Lauro Mata, Lilian Ojeda
Starring: David Zellner, Erin Franklin
The Astronomer (Short)
Hypnotic Films
Director: Lance Meyers
Starring: David Blackwell Norton
DOCUMENTARIES
God Save Texas
HBO Documentary Films
Director: Richard Linklater, Iliana Sosa, Alex Stapleton
Producers: Nell Constantinople, Danielle Mynard, Meghan O’Hara
Take Pains, Be Perfect
Director: Kristi Frazier
Producers: Kristi Frazier, Keith Munley
Diana Kennedy: Nothing Fancy
Greenwich Entertainment
Director: Elizabeth Carroll
Producers: Gina Abatemarco, Dan Braun, Elizabeth Carroll, David Koh Starring: José Andrés, Gabriela Camara, Diana Kennedy
Happy Jail
Netflix
Director: Michele Josue
Producers: Michele Josue, Liam McNiff, Linda Karn, Arleen McGlade, Craig Trudeau
The Journeyman
Contrabando LLC
Director: James Crowley
Producers: Brunson Green, Bryant Jackson, Daniel J. Shaw
Starring: Brad Hunt, Daniel Lapaine, Dash Mihok
The Secret Life of Lance Letscher
Director: Sandra Adair
Producers: Sandra Adair, Kristi Frazier
At the Fork Crossover Productions
Director: John Papola
Producers: Cristina Colissimo, Jordana Glick-Franzheim
DOCUMENTARIES (CONTINUED)
Starving the Beast
Railyard Films
Director: Steve Mims
Producer: Bill Banowsky
Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny
Arts and Labor
Director: Louis Black
Producers: Karen Bernstein, Dawn Cooper Johnson
* 2016 Sundance Film Festival Premiere
The Diplomat
HBO
Director: David Holbrooke
Producer: Stacey Reiss
Starring: Madeleine Albright, Christiane Amanpour, Bill Clinton
21 Years: Richard Linklater
Wood Entertainment
Director: Michael Dunaway, Tara Wood
Producer: Michael Dunaway, Tara Wood
A Single Frame
Spiral Films
Director: Brandon Dickerson
Producer: Jeff Bowden, Ginger Sledge, Laura D. Smith
Incendiary: The Willingham Case
Yokel, LLC
Director: Joe Bailey Jr., Steve Mims
Producer: Reid Nelson
This Place
Walkie Talkie Productions
Director: Kala Philo
Producer: Worth Kilcrease
All About Tesla: The Research
Maxim Film
Director: Michael Krause
Producer: Peter Roloff
Nobelity (Additional Music)
FFM Media
Director: Turk Pipkin
Producers: John McCall, Christy Pipkin
Starring: Wangari Maathai, Turk Pipkin, Joseph Rotblat
One Summer in Austin: The Story of Filming ‘A Scanner Darkly’
Eric Matthies Productions
Director: Eric Matthies
Starring: Philip K. Dick, Tommy Pallotta, Isa Dick Hackett
The Weight of the Line: Animation Tales
Eric Matthies Productions
Director: Eric Matthies
Starring: Tommy Pallotta, Shane F. Kelly, Richard Linklater
SERIES
Out of Her Mind
BBC
Directors: Ben Blaine, Chris Blaine
Producers: Catherine Gosling Fuller
Starring: Sara Pascoe, Juliet Stevenson, Fiona Button
Day 5
Rooster Teeth Productions
Creators: Matt Hullum, Chris Demarais, Josh Flanagan
Producers: Burnie Burns, Ezra Venetos
Starring: Jesse C. Boyd, Walker Satterwhite, Stephanie Drapeau
Up to Speed
Cnetic Media/Hulu
Creator: Richard Linklater
Producers: Alex Lipschultz, Richard Linklater, John Sloss
Starring: Timothy “Speed” Levitch