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Marty Beller is a GRAMMY award-winning composer and the drummer for the iconic Alt-Rock Band They Might Be Giants.
Beller was Music Director for The Total Bent by Stew and Heidi Rodewald at The Public Theater and Music Director for The Good Swimmer by Heidi Rodewald and Donna Di Novelli at Brooklyn Academy of Music.
Notable composing credits include: Prime Video’s American Rust: Broken Justice, Showtime’s American Rust Season 1 , HBO’s In Treatment , Netflix’s Tiger King, Fox Television’s Gracepoint , Showtime’s Cradle of Champions , HBO’s The Last Patrol, Sebastian Junger’s Korengal , Douglas Kass and Roger Kass’ Emptying the Skies , Bennett Miller’s The Cruise, Todd Stephens’ Another Gay Movie, Another Gay Sequel and Gypsy 83, Josh Pais’ 7th Street, A&E Networks’ Biography of Groucho Marx, Scholastic’s iRead, Math 180 and Expert21 Series, Investigation Discovery ‘s Red Flags, Audible’s Radiant Minds, truTV’s Dominick Dunne’s Power, Privilege and Justice, Theatreworks USA’s Romeo and Juliet and more.
In addition to his composer credits, Beller has been the drummer for two-time Grammy Award winning band They Might Be Giants for over 20 years. He was the drummer on Steve Earle’s Grammy winning album Washington Square Serenade and on Jon Samson’s Grammy winning album Ageless: Songs for the Child Archetype. He has recorded and toured with Tony Award winner Stew and TNP, Jonathan Coulton, Mike Doughty and Ivy among many others.
Beller has composed and performed with international dance companies Jennifer Muller/The Works, Ephrat Asherie Dance, David Parsons Dance, Sean Curran, Ann Marie DeAngelo, Chet Walker/8and ah one, Julio Bocca/Ballet Argentino, RhythMEK, Heidi Latsky, Rebudal Dance, Alice Tierstein/Young Dancemakers, Andrew Jannetti and Dancers, Bill Hastings, Kathy Wildberger, Kelli Wicke Davis and Roger Williams University Dance.