Biography

Gabriel Mann wrote the iconic theme and scored the award-winning hit comedy series Modern Family. He is working on season 4 of the Darren Star-helmed Netflix hit Emily In Paris, after which he'll jump into season 2 of Starr's Uncoupled for Showtime, and recently completed songs and score for ABC's A Million Little Things and Disney+'s High School Musical:The Musical:The Series. Other recently wrapped features include Better Nate Than Ever for Disney+, Snow Day for Nickelodeon/Viacom, and interactive rom-com Choose Love for Netflix, as well as Cheryl Strayed's limited series Tiny Beautiful Things for Hulu, co-scored with singer-songwriter Ingrid Michaelson and Juan Ariza. Mann is also working with his indie band The Rescues on a stage adaptation of The Lost Boys, directed by Tony winner Michael Arden and due on Broadway in the fall of 2025.

Mann's score for the Sundance Channel's acclaimed prison drama Rectify was dubbed "remarkable" and "hypnotic" by Time magazine. He scored and wrote the original songs for Nickelodeon's School Of Rock, and scored the indie feature Humor Me, written and directed by Sam Hoffman of Madam Secratary and Old Jews Telling Jokes.

In video games, Mann scored Saboteur, Timeshift, The Mummy, Leisure Suit Larry, and The Legend of Spyro series for Vivendi Universal and Activision/Blizzard, and in the world of animation he composed and wrote songs for Dawn of the Croods from Dreamworks Animation, as well as The Legend of the Three Caballeros for Disney+ with longtime collaborator Rebecca Kneubuhl.

Mann produced Sara Bareilles' first album "Careful Confessions," was the resident songwriter on Fox's Arrested Development and opened for Alanis Morissette as a solo artist on tour through Europe. He opened for the legendary Rolling Stones in England while touring with Tim Burgess of The Chartlatans, sang on a Jack in the Box Superbowl ad in Spanish, and is a featured vocalist in Office Space and The Lorax. Gabriel backed up Adele on the 2013 Academy Awards, sang on a Muse album, and played a Christmas vs. Hanukkah show with Katy Perry.

Mann has won countless ASCAP and SESAC Film and Television Awards, was part of the Lester Sills Songwriter Workshop, and participated in the ASCAP Songwriter Residency in partnership with America Scores, for which he co-wrote and recorded a song with students at Braddock Elementary School. He was also asked to compose for ABC's Yellow Ribbon campaign, where composers were paired with filmmakers from the armed forces.

Between his busy schedule composing music and lending his vocals for various projects, Mann finds time to make his own solo albums, a series of yoga/massage/chillout records with side project Vive, and plays shows and records with The Rescues, whose songs appear throughout film and television. He is quickly becoming known in the world of Jewish music as well, adding a modern spin to traditional texts and writing and performing with his daughter Piper Rose, Ben Platt and his brothers Henry and Jonah.

On Saturdays you will likely find him running down San Vicente Boulevard and/or dining at the Apple Pan on Pico.
- IMDb mini biography by: White Bear PR