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Alec Puro
Composer, Actor, Additional CreditsBorn April 25, 1975 (50 years)
Alec Puro is an award winning Film and Television composer, accomplished studio musician and entrepreneur. He has created the music for over forty five films, thousands of hours of television programming and countless advertisements. Among other projects, Puro is best known for scoring the hit Freeform drama The Fosters, Netflix's new zombie thriller Black Summer, his collaboration with Linkin Park scoring the film MALL as well as other films including The Art Of Getting By starring Emma Roberts and Freddie Highmore and Higher Ground starring Academy Award Nominee Vera Farmiga. A veteran of the indie film world, he recently composed the music for the gritty urban drama PIMP executive produced by Lee Daniels starring Keke Palmer, comedy film All Nighter, starring Emile Hirsch and Academy Award Winner J.K. Simmons and A Happening of Monumental Proportions, actress Judy Greer's directorial debut starring Katie Holmes, Allison Janney and Rob Riggle.
Puro began his career playing drums in studio sessions with the likes of Jackson Browne, Cher and Robby Krieger of The Doors. In 1996, while attending California Institute of the Arts, Puro launched the band Deadsy with longtime friend Elijah Blue. The group's first album debuted at #99 on the Billboard Top 200 charts, selling 25,000 copies in the first week, and the band embarked upon a decade of world tours opening for bands such as Linkin Park and Stone Temple Pilots, playing to packed audiences at historic venues like Madison Square Garden.
During his time with Deadsy, Puro also began composing music independently as well as licensing to television shows such as Chicago Hope and NYPD Blue. Puro's first significant success as a composer came from the 2007 hit Sundance film The Good Night. Starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Penelope Cruz, the film and its score both received widespread praise from the likes of Steven Spielberg and Variety Magazine. In 2011, Puro returned to Sundance with two feature films making their debut; The Art of Getting By, starring Freddie Highmore and Emma Roberts, and Higher Ground, the critically acclaimed directorial debut from Academy Award Nominee Vera Farmiga. Puro became a Sundance regular, returning again in 2012 with his third invitation for scoring Jonathan Kasdan's The First Time. Since 2007, Puro's work has been a regular fixture at some of the worlds most integral film festivals, from SXSW to Cannes to the Tribeca Film Festival where his film Like Water won the "Best New Director" award in 2011. Recently his films Ashby starring Mickey Rourke and Emma Roberts as well as PIMP executive produced by Lee Daniels starring Keke Palmer made their Tribeca Film Festival debuts in 2015 and 2018 respectively.
To support his creative endeavors, Puro founded Gramoscope Music in 2006, a full service music production company with an extensive and diverse music catalog for licensing in film and television. Some notable projects they have created music for include the new theme for Real Time With Bill Maher, American Horror Story, Botched, So You Think You Can Dance, Running Wild With Bear Grylls, Wicked Tuna, Scientology and the Aftermath, Glee, The Real Housewives of OC, Beverly Hills, New Jersey, Keeping Up With The Kardashians, NBA 2K and The Americans to name a few.
Puro began his career playing drums in studio sessions with the likes of Jackson Browne, Cher and Robby Krieger of The Doors. In 1996, while attending California Institute of the Arts, Puro launched the band Deadsy with longtime friend Elijah Blue. The group's first album debuted at #99 on the Billboard Top 200 charts, selling 25,000 copies in the first week, and the band embarked upon a decade of world tours opening for bands such as Linkin Park and Stone Temple Pilots, playing to packed audiences at historic venues like Madison Square Garden.
During his time with Deadsy, Puro also began composing music independently as well as licensing to television shows such as Chicago Hope and NYPD Blue. Puro's first significant success as a composer came from the 2007 hit Sundance film The Good Night. Starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Penelope Cruz, the film and its score both received widespread praise from the likes of Steven Spielberg and Variety Magazine. In 2011, Puro returned to Sundance with two feature films making their debut; The Art of Getting By, starring Freddie Highmore and Emma Roberts, and Higher Ground, the critically acclaimed directorial debut from Academy Award Nominee Vera Farmiga. Puro became a Sundance regular, returning again in 2012 with his third invitation for scoring Jonathan Kasdan's The First Time. Since 2007, Puro's work has been a regular fixture at some of the worlds most integral film festivals, from SXSW to Cannes to the Tribeca Film Festival where his film Like Water won the "Best New Director" award in 2011. Recently his films Ashby starring Mickey Rourke and Emma Roberts as well as PIMP executive produced by Lee Daniels starring Keke Palmer made their Tribeca Film Festival debuts in 2015 and 2018 respectively.
To support his creative endeavors, Puro founded Gramoscope Music in 2006, a full service music production company with an extensive and diverse music catalog for licensing in film and television. Some notable projects they have created music for include the new theme for Real Time With Bill Maher, American Horror Story, Botched, So You Think You Can Dance, Running Wild With Bear Grylls, Wicked Tuna, Scientology and the Aftermath, Glee, The Real Housewives of OC, Beverly Hills, New Jersey, Keeping Up With The Kardashians, NBA 2K and The Americans to name a few.
Alec Puro Filmography
| 2025 | Legend of the Magnate (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 2025 | New Year's Rev · as Composer |
| 2024 | Spin the Bottle · as Original Music Composer |
| 2024 | Spread · as Original Music Composer |
| 2024 | Branching Out · as Composer |
| 2023 | |
| 2023 | Christmas with a Kiss · as Composer |
| 2023 | Spring Breakthrough · as Composer |
| 2022 | |
| 2022 | Blade of the 47 Ronin · as Original Music Composer |
| 2022 | Wicked Tuna: Outer Banks Showdown (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 2022 | Cut, Color, Murder · as Original Music Composer |
| 2021 | Sister Swap: Christmas in the City · as Original Music Composer |
| 2021 | Sister Swap: A Hometown Holiday · as Original Music Composer |
| 2021 | Mystery 101: Deadly History · as Original Music Composer |
| 2021 | Mystery 101: Killer Timing · as Original Music Composer |
| 2021 | The Crew (2021) (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 2020 | |
| 2020 | The Mighty Ones (TV Series) |
| 2020 | DieHard is Back · as Composer |
| 2020 | Mystery 101: An Education in Murder · as Composer |
| 2019 | Christmas Hotel · as Composer |
| 2019 | Write Before Christmas · as Original Music Composer |
| 2019 | |
| 2019 | |
| 2019 | |
| 2019 | Black Summer (TV Series) · as Original Music Composer |
| 2018 | The Gymkhana Files (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 2018 | Pimp · as Composer |
| 2018 | Cults and Extreme Belief (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 2017 | A Happening of Monumental Proportions · as Composer |
| 2017 | All Nighter · as Original Music Composer |
| 2016 | Sweet/Vicious (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 2016 | Made Up (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 2016 | |
| 2016 | Lost in the Pacific · as Original Music Composer |
| 2015 | Ashby · as Original Music Composer |
| 2015 | Andrew Dice Clay: The Blue Show · as Composer |
| 2015 | Fight of the Living Dead (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 2015 | Jay Mohr: Happy. And a Lot. · as Composer |
| 2014 | The Scribbler · as Original Music Composer |
| 2014 | Somebody's Gotta Do It (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 2014 | Manhattan Love Story (2014) (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 2014 | Wicked Tuna: Outer Banks (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 2014 | Running Wild with Bear Grylls (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 2014 | Mantervention · as Original Music Composer |
| 2014 | Mall · as Original Music Composer |
| 2014 | Murder101 · as Composer |
| 2013 | The Fosters (2013) (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 2013 | Ian Bagg: Getting to F**king Know You · as Composer |
| 2013 | Forever Young (2013) (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 2013 | Monique Marvez: Not Skinny Not Blonde · as Composer |
| 2013 | Bill Bellamy's Ladies Night Out Comedy Tour · as Composer |
| 2012 | Melanie Comarcho: Hello! · as Composer |
| 2012 | Anthony Clark: Ambiguous · as Composer |
| 2012 | Kill 'em All · as Composer |
| 2012 | The First Time · as Original Music Composer |
| 2012 | Prom Queens (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 2012 | Willie Barcena: I Gotta Be Honest · as Composer |
| 2012 | Jay Mohr: Funny for a Girl · as Composer |
| 2012 | Code: 9 (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 2012 | Chasing UFOs (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 2012 | Don Friesen: Ask Your Mom · as Composer |
| 2012 | Bobcat Goldthwait: You Don't Look the Same Either. · as Composer |
| 2012 | Snoop Dogg Presents: The Bad Girls of Comedy · as Composer |
| 2012 | ¡Q'Viva!: The Chosen (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 2012 | Wicked Tuna (TV Series) |
| 2011 | We Are the Hartmans · as Original Music Composer |
| 2011 | A Warrior's Heart · as Original Music Composer |
| 2011 | Like Water · as Composer |
| 2011 | Higher Ground · as Original Music Composer |
| 2011 | |
| 2011 | The Art of Getting By · as Original Music Composer |
| 2011 | Legally Brown · as Composer |
| 2011 | The Bandit · as Composer |
| 2010 | Starting at the Finish Line: The Coach Buehler Story · as Composer |
| 2010 | Airplane Repo (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 2010 | Shake It Up (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 2010 | What's Eating You (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 2010 | Dad Camp (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 2010 | The OCD Project (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 2010 | The Street Stops Here · as Composer |
| 2010 | The Journey: Big Ten Basketball (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 2009 | Pauly Shore & Friends · as Composer |
| 2009 | The Carter · as Composer |
| 2009 | Jonas (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 2008 | The Coverup · as Original Music Composer |
| 2008 | Raising the Bar (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 2008 | Imaginary Bitches (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 2007 | The Good Night · as Original Music Composer |
| 2007 | Bam's Unholy Union (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 2007 | Therapy · as Composer |
| 2006 | Analog Days · as Composer |
| 2006 | Rising Son: The Legend of Skateboarder Christian Hosoi · as Composer |
| 2005 | Parco P.I. (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 2005 | Over There (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 2005 | Minding The Store (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 2002 | Robbery Homicide Division (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 1998 | The Challenge (TV Series) · as Composer |
| 2003 | The Singing Detective · as Drummer |
| 1993 | NYPD Blue (TV Series) · as Sleazy Screenwriter |
| 2006 | Family Values Tour 2006 · as Self - Deadsy |
| 2021 | The Gateway · as Sound |
| 2019 | Love, Fall & Order · as Music Supervisor |
| 2019 | Mystery 101 · as Scoring Mixer |
| 2011 | Hot Coffee · as Music Supervisor |
| 2007 | Victoria Beckham: Coming to America · as Music Arranger |