Dan Brenner


Dan Brenner is an American composer, musician, and psychiatrist. Brenner was a member of the band Magnet, with Moe Tucker in the late 1990s, and of the rap/performance-art band with his brother, filmmaker Evan Brenner from 1985-1988. He was a member of the Boston bands Green Fuse and Gunga Din in the early 1990s, and prior to that, while a student at Harvard College, The Love Monsters. Brenner has written the scores for three feature films, including Rhythm Thief, Spare Me, and The Riddle . Brenner also co-wrote the script for The Riddle, for which he was awarded the 2010 Mario Puzo Screenplay Award. Some of Brenner's film composition is credited as "Danny Brenner." He was as Producer on the Foggy Notion CD Mission.
In 2011, Brenner released a solo CD, Little Dark Angel, produced by 12-time Grammy Winner Jay Newland. Little Dark Angel featured Larry Campbell, Will Lee, Shawn Pelton, Brian Mitchell, and former Morphine member Dana Colley. In 2016, Brenner released Tough, also produced by Jay Newland. Tough featured Dan Reiser, Entcho Todorow, Zev Katz, Adam Levy, Dana Colley, Glenn Patscha Steve Williams:, Sherrod Barnes Jay Newland and Dave Eggar.
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Personal life

Dan Brenner was born in New York City, attended Saint Ann's School in Brooklyn Heights, and graduated from Harvard College. Brenner later attended medical school, and was a resident in Psychiatry at the Cambridge Hospital from 1995-2000. He was a Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School from 1995-2010, and received psychoanalytic training at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. He is Medical Director of Cambridge Biotherapies, in Cambridge, MA. He is married to Heather Thompson-Brenner.

Discography

Solo

  • 2014 Tough
  • 2011 ''Little Dark Angel''

Compilation

  • 2010 ''Working on a Building''

Magnet

  • 1999 Shark Bait
  • 1998 Which Way
  • 1997 ''Don’t Be A Penguin''

Foggy Notion

  • 1995 ''Mission''

Razor Magnet

  • 1990 ''You're In good Hands''

Green Fuse

  • 1987 Sleeping Dairy Death Dirge
I Have a copy of this record and it is a double EP
The actual songs are "Dairy Queen", "Sleeping Sara", "Death Dirge", and "Summertime"
AND the date on it is 1988

The Love Monsters

Filmography

Composer

  • 2000 Wrist
  • 1996 The Riddle
  • 1994 Rhythm Thief
  • 1993 Spare Me
  • 1993 Two Boneheads
  • 1992 Breaking and Entering
  • 1989 The Man Who Invented The Twinkie
  • 1989 The Starving Song
  • 1988 Doctor Fisher
  • 1988 Santaphobia
  • 1987 Waking Up Crazy
  • 1987 ''Consumed''

Screenwriter

  • 1996 The Riddle
  • 1993 Two Bits
  • 1988 ''Doctor Fisher''

Acting

  • 2005 In Loving Memory
  • 2001 Works of Wonder
  • 1988 Doctor Fisher
  • 1985 ''Mister Brain''