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John Kusiak

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John Kusiak
A documentary on a former Miss Wyoming who is charged with abducting and imprisoning a young Mormon Missionary.
Play trailer2:14
Tabloid (2010)
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John Kusiak composes music for film, television and live performance. He has scored hundreds of projects, including feature films: Tabloid, Secrecy and The Fog of War (additional music), television documentaries for HBO (The Jinx), Netflix (Team Foxcatcher), PBS (American Experience) and IFC (First Person) and large-screen exhibitions (Yellowstone National Park and Mt. St. Helens). His score for Errol Morris' "Tabloid" won the 2012 Cinema Eye Honors Award for Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Score.

Other projects have included music for the opening films of two Academy Awards programs (2002 and 2007) and two seasons of First Person, a television series directed by Errol Morris and chosen by Time as one of the 10 best series of 2000. He has scored commercials for United Airlines, Quaker Oats and MasterCard, among others. John also writes music for live performance, including collaborations with Boston-based Prometheus Dance, whose Apokalypsis (2000-present) was selected by The Boston Globe as one of the 10 best dance performances of 2000.

A full list of credits is available at www.kusiakmusic.com
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    Known for

    Robert Durst in The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst (2015)
    The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst
    8.6
    TV Series
    • Composer
    Team Foxcatcher (2016)
    Team Foxcatcher
    7.2
    • Composer
    • 2016
    Tabloid (2010)
    Tabloid
    7.0
    • Composer
    • 2010
    David Ogden Stiers, David McCullough, and Michael Murphy in American Experience (1988)
    American Experience
    8.6
    TV Series
    • Composer

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    • Prince Andrew: Banished (2022)
      Prince Andrew: Banished
      6.7
      • Composer
      • 2022
    • Pony Boys (2022)
      Pony Boys
      8.7
      Short
      • Composer
      • 2022
    • Poetry in America with Elisa New (2018)
      Poetry in America with Elisa New
      7.9
      TV Series
      • Composer
      • 2020–2022
    • Firebug (2021)
      Firebug
      9.2
      Podcast Series
      • Composer (music by)
      • 2021
    • Epstein's Shadow: Ghislaine Maxwell (2021)
      Epstein's Shadow: Ghislaine Maxwell
      6.7
      TV Mini Series
      • Composer
      • 2021
    • American Masters (1985)
      American Masters
      8.2
      TV Series
      • Composer
      • 2017–2020
    • Woodstock (2019)
      Woodstock
      7.6
      • Composer
      • 2019
    • Mrs. Saltzman Goes to Jail (2018)
      Mrs. Saltzman Goes to Jail
      Short
      • Composer
      • 2018
    • Denis O'Hare in Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive (2016)
      Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive
      7.3
      TV Movie
      • Composer
      • 2016
    • All the Presidents' Heads (2016)
      All the Presidents' Heads
      Short
      • Composer
      • 2016
    • Op-Docs (2011)
      Op-Docs
      8.2
      TV Series
      • Composer
      • 2012–2016
    • Team Foxcatcher (2016)
      Team Foxcatcher
      7.2
      • Composer
      • 2016
    • The Inhabitants (2015)
      The Inhabitants
      3.8
      • co-composer
      • 2015
    • The Mother (2015)
      The Mother
      8.7
      Short
      • Composer
      • 2015
    • Tim Jackson in The American Gurner (2015)
      The American Gurner
      Video
      • Composer
      • 2015

    Music Department



    • Robert Durst in The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst (2015)
      The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst
      8.6
      TV Series
      • additional music
      • Additional Music by
      • composer: additional music
      • 2015–2024
    • A Wilderness of Error (2020)
      A Wilderness of Error
      6.5
      TV Mini Series
      • composer: additional music
      • 2020
    • Poetry in America with Elisa New (2018)
      Poetry in America with Elisa New
      7.9
      TV Series
      • music
      • additional music
      • 2018–2020
    • Independent Lens (1999)
      Independent Lens
      8.1
      TV Series
      • original music
      • 2017
    • Denis O'Hare in Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive (2016)
      Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive
      7.3
      TV Movie
      • orchestrator
      • 2016
    • Little Dream Catchers (2016)
      Little Dream Catchers
      Short
      • additional music
      • 2016
    • America ReFramed (2012)
      America ReFramed
      7.3
      TV Series
      • additional music
      • 2016
    • David Ogden Stiers, David McCullough, and Michael Murphy in American Experience (1988)
      American Experience
      8.6
      TV Series
      • composer: additional music
      • musician
      • orchestrator ...
      • 1994–2016
    • The Inhabitants (2015)
      The Inhabitants
      3.8
      • composer: theme music
      • 2015
    • It's Not Crazy, It's Sports (2015)
      It's Not Crazy, It's Sports
      5.8
      TV Series
      • composer: additional music
      • 2015
    • Raise the Roof (2015)
      Raise the Roof
      8.4
      • composer: additional music
      • 2015
    • Op-Docs (2011)
      Op-Docs
      8.2
      TV Series
      • music
      • composer: additional music
      • 2014
    • Dark Feed (2013)
      Dark Feed
      3.3
      • composer: theme music
      • 2013
    • Carrie
      Short
      • composer: additional music
      • 2009
    • Aux origines de l'humanité (1974)
      Aux origines de l'humanité
      8.7
      TV Series
      • composer: additional music
      • 1992–2007

    Sound Department



    • Tim Jackson in The American Gurner (2015)
      The American Gurner
      Video
      • sound editor
      • 2015
    • Leona's Sister Gerri (1995)
      Leona's Sister Gerri
      7.9
      TV Movie
      • sound designer
      • 1995

    Videos3

    Tabloid
    Trailer 2:14
    Tabloid
    SCARRED JUSTICE: The Orangeburg Massacre, 1968
    Trailer 6:05
    SCARRED JUSTICE: The Orangeburg Massacre, 1968
    SCARRED JUSTICE: The Orangeburg Massacre, 1968
    Trailer 6:05
    SCARRED JUSTICE: The Orangeburg Massacre, 1968
    The Frozen City
    Trailer 0:48
    The Frozen City

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      • John Kusiac

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