Dan Wool

Who is Dan Wool?

Originally from St. Louis, Missouri, where he played in the punk rock band The Strikers, Dan Wool is a San Francisco, California, based composer who has worked in New York, Los Angeles, London and Mexico City creating scores for more than 45 feature film and broadcast television projects, including seven films for celebrated cult filmmaker Alex Cox Sid and Nancy, Straight to Hell, Searchers 2.0, Death and the Compass, and Repo Chick among others, as well as television movies and episodic series for all major U.S. networks and HBO . He is perhaps best known for his work as principal composer in film score soundtrack-group Pray for Rain.

Wool has also worked extensively creating sound and music for international and domestic advertising and also as sound-designer for short films and documentaries, including several for the BBC and Channel 4. As a music producer, and engineer Wool has collaborated with international artists such as Bernie Worrell, Philip Chevron and James Fearnley, Debbie Harry, and worked with various bay-area recording artists such as All My Pretty Ones, Beth Custer, Enrique, essence, The Mermen, Kally Price and Todd Stadtman.