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Ira Sakolsky
Co-owner/Producer/Composer/Engineer/Musician
Ira was born in Brooklyn, New York, and found his way to Connecticut in
1994,
when he began an eight-year stint
as resident composer/actor
for National Theatre of the Deaf. He has written and performed scores
for film, theater, video, and industrial shows as well as freelance entertainment.
Ira’s credits include composition and arrangement of the 2003 Grammy-nominated
CD The Christmas That Almost Wasn’t, featuring John Lithgow;
the 2004 Parent’s Choice Award-winning CD The Troubadour’s
Tales; music contributions to the Obie-nominated Off-Broadway play
Hannah Senesh; the music score for The Bushnell’s production of
The Curse Of Sleepy Hollow, starring Zelda Rubinstein; and composition
and engineering work for the promotion of A Wreath For Emmett Till
written by Marilyn Nelson, a Newbury Honor-winning poet published by Houghton-Mifflin
Books. Ira was co-producer/engineer for the CT Hospice CD Project A
Breath Of Life; producer/composer/engineer for One Vision-Many
Voices, a live poetry slam with music recorded at the York Correctional
Institute for Women; engineer and co-producer for 'The Circle' CD for
Hospice Southeastern CT; and director/composer for the 2005 and 2006 North
Pole Express, produced by The Essex Steam Train and Riverboat. Ira
has also done industrial scores for Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Holiday Inn, and
Arby’s. Ira received a special citation from the Romanian Embassy
for his scoring work on Eugene Ionesco’s Ionescapades,
performed at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.
As an actor, Ira has worked in film, television, radio, Broadway, Off-Broadway,
and regional theater. He has had the distinct pleasure of working with
such luminaries as Jodi Foster, Al Pacino, Lily Tomlin, Madeline Kahn,
Madonna, Woody Allen, and Rob Reiner. His background in improvisation
came through his work with Chicago Second City co-founder/director Paul
Sills. As a
director, Ira’s Off-Broadway adaptation of Norton Juster’s
The Phantom Tollbooth earned him the rights to produce a Broadway
musical version of this children’s favorite. He is artistic director
of the Riverway Studio Improvisational Comedy. Performing venues for this
troupe include Foxwoods Resort Casino and the Florence Griswold Museum
in CT.
Ira met his wife Monica through the National Theatre of the Deaf and,
with her, co-owns the Riverway Recording Studio in East Haddam. Ira is
a member of the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, the
Actor's Equity Association, The American Federation of Radio and Television
Artists and the Screen Actors Guild. He received a B.F.A. and Honors in
Acting from Purchase
College.
For studio booking and
information:
Email: ira@riverwaystudio.com
Ph: 860-873-3404
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