Biography

Twice local Emmy® Award recipient Damon Stout is a Scholarship Alum of the Berklee College Of Music in Boston. After formal training in composition and arranging, Damon attended UCLA for the Film Scoring program. His multi-instrument talent and years of performing aided in his success freelancing for The Coca-Cola Company as Damon wrote and produced over 50 commercial jingles for Coca-Cola and other clients for TV and radio, in national and international markets. He has scored numerous feature films and television programs ranging from conducting a 65-piece orchestra to performing the score on an array of samplers. He won an Ohio Valley Chapter Emmy® for his original music in The Golem (2000).

Damon's foray into writing and directing started in his teens with an old Bolex Super 8 and moviola editor. A few years later, he won a Los Angeles Local Emmy® Award for his sci-fi short, Nomad, Roe (2000). He continued by writing and directing TV commercials for Harley-Davidson, Coca-Cola, Pizza Hut, KFC, and Pepsi, then segued to his first feature film, Bulldog (2002). Hired to direct and produce a feature length documentary, Higher Ground: Voices of Contemporary Gospel Music (2004), via Image Entertainment soon followed. Acquiring semi-finalist status for Amazon Studios, an animatic for the script Don't Say Anything (2011) was produced. His second sci-fi short film, The Time We're In (2015) was screened at The Boston Sci-Fi Fest, Cannes Film Festival Court Métrage, and the Palm Springs International ShortFest Film Market, and was distributed via the ShortsHD network in 2016. Currently, Damon is producing Cowboy Down (2025) a WWII documentary about an ace pilot killed in the South Pacific.

Damon is also the founder/lead of the LA-based indie rock group, "The Diviners" (2009 winners of best song and best video via OurStage) and co-founded the group "Celtic Pink Floyd".
- IMDb mini biography by: Maggie DiCampo