Peter Rodgers Melnick
Peter Rodgers Melnick is an American author and composer for film, television and musical theatre.
Career
Some of Melnick’s earlier film score credits include L.A. Story, The Only Thrill, Convicts, and Farce of the Penguins. His television credits include the PBS's, Cinema's Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood, Indictment: The McMartin Trial, Grand Avenue, and Lily Dale by Horton Foote.His first produced musical was Adrift in Macao, featuring script and lyrics by Christopher Durang. Melnick then collaborated with Bill Russell on The Last Smoker in America, a musical comedy about a dysfunctional family struggling with a new law forbidding smoking. It opened in Columbus, Ohio in late 2010.
Melnick and Russell have also worked together on two musical one-acts, Patter for the Floating Lady, based on the eponymous Steve Martin, and A Bad Spell, adapted from a Virginia Moriconi short story Simple Arithmetic.
Personal life
Melnick is the son of Daniel Melnick and Linda Rodgers, and grandson of Richard Rodgers and grew up in New York City. He graduated from The Choate School and attended Harvard College, Berklee College of Music, and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He also studied jazz with the Jaki Byard.Melnick lives in Montecito, California, with wife, Talia Van-Son.
Works
Musical theatre scores
Adrift in Macao- ''The Last Smoker in America''
Film scores
Vampire Knights Homesick, film short Get Smart, Again! ; TV movieOut of Sight, Out of Mind Bad Attitudes ; TV movieL.A. Story Convicts Only You In the Name of the Father, film short Running Mates ; TV movieArctic Blue 12:01 ; TV movieIndictment: The McMartin Trial ; TV movieFor Hope ; TV movieGrand Avenue ; TV movieNo One Could Protect Her Two Mothers for Zachary ; TV movieLily Dale TV movieEvery 9 Seconds ; TV movieJitters ; TV movieThe Only Thrill Time to Say Goodbye? Becoming Dick ; TV movieTak For Alt: Survival of a Human Spirit ; Documentary FeatureMermaid ; TV movieTaking Back Our Town ; TV movieCall Waiting, Farce of the Penguins- ''Benjamin''