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Meredith Monk
Composer, Actor, Director, WriterBorn November 20, 1942 (83 years)
Meredith Jane Monk (born November 20, 1942) is an American composer, performer, director, vocalist, filmmaker, and choreographer. From the 1960s onwards, Monk has created multi-disciplinary works which combine music, theatre, and dance, recording extensively for ECM Records.[1] In 1991, Monk composed Atlas, an opera, commissioned and produced by the Houston Opera and the American Music Theater Festival. Her music has been used in films by the Coen Brothers (The Big Lebowski, 1998) and Jean-Luc Godard (Nouvelle Vague, 1990 and Notre musique, 2004). Trip hop musician DJ Shadow sampled Monk's "Dolmen Music" on the song "Midnight in a Perfect World". In 2015, she was awarded the National Medal of Arts by Barack Obama.
Meredith Monk Filmography
| 2025 | Monk in Pieces · as Self |
| 2018 | Feminists: What Were They Thinking? · as Self |
| 1993 | |
| 1985 | American Masters (TV Series) · as Self - Composer And Musician |
| 1979 | CBS Sunday Morning With Jane Pauley (TV Series) · as Self - Choreographer |
| 2025 | Monk in Pieces · as Composer |
| 2004 | |
| 1998 | The Sacrifice: A Film About a Forest · as Composer |
| 1989 | |
| 1983 | Four American Composers · as Composer |
| 1989 | Book of Days · as Madwoman |
| 1987 | Uncle Meat · as Red Face Girl |
| 1983 | Four American Composers · as Cast |
| 1980 |
| 1989 |
| 1989 | Book of Days · as Screenplay |