Thomas Robert Kitt is an American composer, conductor, orchestrator, and musician. For his score for the musical Next to Normal, he shared the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Drama with Brian Yorkey.
Tom Kitt Songs
He is also the composer of If/Then (Tony Nom); High Fidelity; Bring it On, The Musical (co-composer with Lin-Manuel Miranda); Almost Famous (written with Cameron Crowe); Superhero; Disney’s Freaky Friday (Stage Production and Original Disney Channel Movie Musical); Dave; and The Winter’s Tale, All’s Well That Ends Well.
Tom Kitt Bands
Debbie Does Dallas: The Musical (2002)
Urban Cowboy (2003)
Mario Cantone: Laugh Whore (2004)
13 (2008)
Keys: The Music of Scott Alan (2008)
21st Century Breakdown, Green Day (2009)
Everyday Rapture (2009, Second Stage Theatre, and 2010, Broadway)
Why is Tom Kitt famous?
Kitt, who won two Tonys for composing 2009’s Next to Normal and also arranged and produced the music for the American Idiot and Jagged Little Pill musicals, among many other projects, told our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast about the process behind the musical, why his next dream project involves Bruce Springsteen.