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Michael Skloff

  • Music Department
  • Composer
  • Actor
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Michael Skloff
Michael Skloff is best known as a TV & Film composer. Most notably he wrote the theme song "I'll Be There For You" for the hit NBC comedy series FRIENDS, for which he received an Emmy Award nomination. He was also nominated for an Emmy for the main title theme to HBO's comedy series DREAM ON. For the past eight years he and his son Sam KS have been the co- composers for the popular Netflix comedy series GRACE AND FRANKIE. Mr. Skloff also continues to write 'art' music for different applications including music for the stage, worship, concert halls, and musical theatre. He's the composer of the musical stage adaptation of the Dudley Moore hit movie "ARTHUR"; and was vocal arranger and co-producer of Randy Newman's songs in Disney's "JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH". As a film score composer, he's worked with directors: John Landis, Jason Gould, Jason Alexander, Roberta Grossman, Sophie Sartain, among others. Michael is also widely known as a performer and music director, having appeared on the Tonight Show and the Jerry Lewis Telethon as well as Music Director for Jenifer Lewis, Jasmine Guy, Jason Alexander, Bruce Vilanch, to name just a few. And for a short time he successfully produced and released a number of artists' work on his former label, Electric Monkey Records. Michael received BFA in Music Composition from Carnegie-Mellon University and his MFA Performer-Composer from California Institute of The Arts.
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  • Nominated for 2 Primetime Emmys
    • 19 wins & 3 nominations total

Known for

Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry, and David Schwimmer in Friends (1994)
Friends
8.9
TV Series
  • Music Department
Kirstie Alley, Kathy Najimy, Dan Cortese, Wallace Langham, Daryl Mitchell, and Ron Silver in Veronica's Closet (1997)
Veronica's Closet
5.7
TV Series
  • Music Department
Jennifer Aniston, Emma Roberts, Jason Sudeikis, and Will Poulter in We're the Millers (2013)
We're the Millers
7.0
  • Soundtrack("I'll Be There For You")
  • 2013
Jesse (1998)
Jesse
6.0
TV Series
  • Music Department

Credits

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Music Department

  • Independent Lens (1999)
    Independent Lens
    • music arranger
    • music producer
    • TV Series
    • 2010
  • Blessed Is the Match (2008)
    Blessed Is the Match
    • additional music arranger
    • additional music producer
    • 2008
  • Friends: The One Before the Last One - Ten Years of Friends (2004)
    Friends: The One Before the Last One - Ten Years of Friends
    • composer: title theme
    • TV Special
    • 2004
  • Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry, and David Schwimmer in Friends (1994)
    Friends
    • composer: title theme
    • composer: additional music
    • composer: title theme and additional music ...
    • TV Series
    • 1994–2004
  • Jesse (1998)
    Jesse
    • composer: theme
    • TV Series
    • 1998–2000
  • Bartok the Magnificent (1999)
    Bartok the Magnificent
    • vocal coach
    • Video
    • 1999
  • Kirstie Alley, Kathy Najimy, Dan Cortese, Wallace Langham, Daryl Mitchell, and Ron Silver in Veronica's Closet (1997)
    Veronica's Closet
    • composer: title theme
    • composer: theme music
    • composer: additional music ...
    • TV Series
    • 1997–1999
  • Paul Terry in James and the Giant Peach (1996)
    James and the Giant Peach
    • song production supervisor
    • vocal arrangements
    • 1996
  • Dream On (1990)
    Dream On
    • composer: main title theme
    • TV Series
    • 1990–1996
  • Ben Bode, JD Cullum, Ryan Hurst, Jerry Kernion, Monte Markham, David Sage, and LaRita Shelby in Campus Cops (1995)
    Campus Cops
    • composer: theme music
    • composer: main title theme
    • TV Series
    • 1996

Composer

  • Stephanie Erb in Faultless (2021)
    Faultless
    • Composer
    • Short
    • 2021
  • Grace and Frankie (2015)
    Grace and Frankie
    • Composer
    • TV Series
    • 2015–2020
  • Laura Breckenridge, Lizzy Caplan, Jennifer Esposito, and Kiele Sanchez in Related (2005)
    Related
    • Composer
    • TV Series
    • 2006
  • Pals (2004)
    Pals
    • Composer
    • Short
    • 2004
  • Bob Patterson (2001)
    Bob Patterson
    • Composer
    • TV Series
    • 2001
  • Kirstie Alley, Kathy Najimy, Dan Cortese, Wallace Langham, Daryl Mitchell, and Ron Silver in Veronica's Closet (1997)
    Veronica's Closet
    • Composer
    • TV Series
    • 1997–2000
  • Boys Life 3 (2000)
    Boys Life 3
    • Composer (segment Inside Out)
    • 2000
  • Jesse (1998)
    Jesse
    • Composer
    • TV Series
    • 1998–2000
  • Just Looking (1999)
    Just Looking
    • Composer
    • 1999
  • Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry, and David Schwimmer in Friends (1994)
    Friends
    • Composer
    • TV Series
    • 1997–1998
  • The Lovemaster (1997)
    The Lovemaster
    • Composer
    • 1997
  • Lane Janger in Inside Out (1996)
    Inside Out
    • Composer
    • Short
    • 1996
  • Edward Herrmann, Mathew Botuchis, Veronica Hamel, Robert Morse, and Christine Taylor in Here Come the Munsters (1995)
    Here Come the Munsters
    • Composer
    • TV Movie
    • 1995
  • The Rembrandts in The Rembrandts: I'll Be There for You (1995)
    The Rembrandts: I'll Be There for You
    • Composer
    • Music Video
    • 1995
  • Ashlee Levitch, Christopher Miranda, Pamela Reed, Peter Scolari, and Phillip Van Dyke in Family Album (1993)
    Family Album
    • Composer
    • TV Series
    • 1993

Actor

  • Grace and Frankie (2015)
    Grace and Frankie
    • Piano Player
    • TV Series
    • 2022

Personal details

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    • Marta KauffmanNovember 1984 - November 25, 2015 (divorced, 3 children)
  • Other works
    (April 17 & 18, 1989) He composed music for the musical, "Arthur, The Musical," in a staged reading at the Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, New Jersey. Richard Maltby Jr. was director. David Crane and Marta Kauffman wrote the book and lyrics.

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