Deana Kiner


Deana Kiner is an American composer and multi-instrumentalist, known for her work on the soundtracks of Star Wars Rebels, Transformers: Robots in Disguise, and Star Wars: The Clone Wars.

Career

Kiner began studying film scoring at Berklee College of Music, but eventually left the program to study songwriting within the same institution. She briefly worked at a Starbucks until her father convinced her to collaborate with him on a composition project, which turned out to be the Netflix documentary Making a Murderer.
She also worked as a composer on the Singaporean animated series Trese, released by Netflix on June 10, 2021.
She composed the song Igyah Kah, which Sabine Wren listens to in the first episode of the 2023 web series Ahsoka, in collaboration with Kevin Kiner, Ludwig Göransson, and Noah Gorelick.
On July 28, 2024, Kiner participated in a panel at the San Diego Comic-Con International titled The Character Of Music: The Art of Scoring for Animation Panel.

Personal life

Deana is the daughter of composer Kevin Kiner. On May 12, 2023, she came out as a trans woman. She is also bisexual.