Filmmakers

Colin Farrell

In addition to In Bruges, Colin Farrell will also shortly be seen on movie screens starring with Edward Norton in Gavin O'Connor's Pride and Glory.

Born and raised in Castleknock in the Republic of Ireland, Mr. Farrell is the son of former football player Eamon Farrell and the nephew of Tommy Farrell. Both Tommy and Eamon Farrell played for the Irish Football Club, Shamrock Rovers, in the 1960s.

He had an early ambition to follow in his father and uncle's footsteps, but his interest soon turned towards acting and he joined the Gaiety School of Drama in Dublin. Before completing his studies, he landed a role in Deirdre Purcell's miniseries Falling for a Dancer; a regular role on the BBC series Ballykissangel and a supporting role in Tim Roth's feature The War Zone followed soon after.

Colin Farrell's subsequent film credits have included Joel Schumacher's Tigerland, Phone Booth, and (in a cameo) Veronica Guerin; Steven Spielberg's Minority Report; Roger Donaldson's The Recruit; Mark Steven Johnson's Daredevil; Clark Johnson's S.W.A.T.; John Crowley's Intermission; Michael Mayer's A Home at the End of the World; Oliver Stone's Alexander, Terrence Malick's The New World; Robert Towne's Ask the Dust; Michael Mann's Miami Vice; and Woody Allen's Cassandra's Dream.

Brendan Gleeson

Dublin-born Brendan Gleeson previously starred for In Bruges writer/director Martin McDonagh in Six Shooter, which won the Academy Award for Best Live-Action Short Film.

Audiences worldwide know the actor from (to date) two Harry Potter movies, The Goblet of Fire and The Order of the Phoenix, directed by Mike Newell and David Yates, respectively, and both also starring Ralph Fiennes of In Bruges.

A former teacher, Mr. Gleeson left the profession to pursue a career in his first love – acting. He joined the Irish theater company Passion Machine and subsequently studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). He has since starred on the stage (including with the Royal Shakespeare Company) and in films and television.

Following small roles in such films as Jim Sheridan's The Field, Mike Newell's Into the West, and Ron Howard's Far and Away, he landed his breakout role in Mel Gibson's Academy Award-winning Braveheart.

His portrayal of real-life criminal Martin Cahill in John Boorman's The General, tandemed with his performance in Paddy Breathnach's I Went Down, brought Mr. Gleeson Best Actor honors from the Boston Society of Film Critics. The General also earned him the Irish Film & Television Award (IFTA) and London Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor.

His many other films include John Boorman's The Tailor of Panama, In My Country (a.k.a. Country of My Skull), and The Tiger's Tail; Neil Jordan's Michael Collins, The Butcher Boy, and Breakfast on Pluto; John Woo's Mission: Impossible II; Steven Spielberg's AI; Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later…; Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York; Wolfgang Petersen's Troy; Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven; and Robert Zemeckis' Beowulf.

Mr. Gleeson recently completed work on Thaddeus O'Sullivan's telefilm Churchill at War, in which he stars as Winston Churchill.

Ralph Fiennes

Ralph Fiennes has twice been nominated for an Academy Award, for his performances in Anthony Minghella's The English Patient and Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List, both of which won the Oscar for Best Picture.

Born in Suffolk, Mr. Fiennes grew up in England and Ireland. He attended RADA (the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts), after which he began his professional acting career on the stage. He performed at London's Regents Park, the Theatre Clwyd, and the Oldman Coliseum. Two years after graduating RADA, he joined Michael Rudman's company at the Royal National Theatre. He later joined the Royal Shakespeare Company, where for two seasons he appeared in such plays as Henry VI, King Lear, and Love's Labour's Lost.

An appearance on the original Prime Suspect miniseries, directed by Christopher Menaul, led to his being cast by the director to portray the legendary T.E. Lawrence in the telefilm A Dangerous Man: Lawrence after Arabia. The starring role in another telefilm, Peter Markham's The Cormorant, followed. Mr. Fiennes made his feature film debut starring opposite Juliette Binoche, as Heathcliff, in Peter Kosminsky's Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights.

In addition to Academy and Golden Globe Award nominations, his performance as SS Commandant Amon Goeth in Schindler's List won him the BAFTA, New York Film Critics Circle, National Society of Film Critics, Boston Society of Film Critics, Chicago Film Critics Association, and London Critics Circle [Film] Awards, among other honors.

Mr. Fiennes next starred as Charles Van Doren in Robert Redford's acclaimed Quiz Show. His subsequent films included Kathryn Bigelow's Strange Days; The English Patient (for which, in addition to his second Oscar nod, he also received BAFTA, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations); Gillian Armstrong's Oscar and Lucinda; and Martha Fiennes' Onegin (which he also executive-produced). His performance in István Szabó's epic Sunshine earned him the European Film Award for Best Actor.

Mr. Fiennes' other films include Neil Jordan's The End of the Affair and (in a cameo) The Good Thief; Brett Ratner's Red Dragon; Wayne Wang's Maid in Manhattan; David Cronenberg's Spider; Arie Posin's The Chumscrubber; Merchant Ivory's The White Countess; Martha Fiennes' Chromophobia, which world-premiered as the Closing…Night film at the 2005 Cannes International Film Festival; Robert Edwards' Land of the Blind; (in voiceover) Steve Box and Nick Park's Academy Award-winning animated feature Wallace & Gromit   The Curse of the Were-rabbit; and Bob Balaban's Bernard and Doris.

Also for Focus Features, he starred in Fernando Meirelles' The Constant Gardener, for which he was again a BAFTA Award nominee, opposite Rachel Weisz. His performance also brought him the British Independent Film Award and London Film Critics Circle Awards for Best Actor.

For the past fifteen years, he has consistently alternated stage and film performances. He starred in Jonathan Kent's Almeida Theatre staging of Hamlet, the subsequent Broadway engagement of which won him a Tony Award. Mr. Fiennes returned to the Almeida for the director's staging of David Hare's modern translation of Chekhov's Ivanov, the production of which was honored with an invitation to Moscow for a special weeklong run.

In the summer of 2000, he played the title roles of Richard II and Coriolanus in rotating repertory for the Almeida Theatre Company. Both Shakespeare plays were directed by Jonathan Kent and, following acclaim in London, were also performed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Under the direction of Howard Davies at London's National Theatre, Mr. Fiennes starred as Carl Jung in Christopher Hampton's The Talking Cure. He also starred in Adrian Noble's Royal Shakespeare Company staging of Ibsen's Brand in the West End; and in Deborah Warner's production of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, at the Barbican Centre in London and on tour in Paris, Madrid, and Luxembourg.

In 2006, he reunited with Jonathan Kent for Brian Friel's Faith Healer, which premiered at Dublin's Gate Theatre in a sold-out run before coming to Broadway, where Mr. Fiennes was honored with a Tony Award nomination, as was the play.

He has starred in (so far) two movies as the dreaded Lord Voldemort; Mike Newell's Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and David Yates' Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, both of which also starred Brendan Gleeson of In Bruges.

Mr. Fiennes' upcoming films include Saul Dibb's The Duchess, in which he stars with Keira Knightley; and Stephen Daldry's The Reader, in which he stars opposite Nicole Kidman.

Clémence Poésy

Clémence Poésy is one of France's brightest new stars. She played the title role in Nina Grosse's L'été d'Olga; and starred opposite Carole Bouquet in Francis Pallau's Bienvenue chez les Rozes. Her other films include Jean-Daniel Verhaeghe's Le Grand Meaulnes; and, most recently, Olivier Panchot's Sans moi and Ariel Zeitoun's Le gang des postiches (a.k.a. Le dernier gang).

Ms. Poésy has also starred in such telefilms as Olivier Péray's La vie quand meme and Ilan Duran Cohen's Les Amants du Flore.

Her first English-language performance was as Mary, Queen of Scots in the award-winning BBC miniseries Gunpowder, Treason & Plot, directed by Gillies MacKinnon. She later costarred on the NBC series Revelations, with Bill Pullman and Natascha McElhone. Most recently, she starred as Natasha in the miniseries War and Peace, directed by Robert Dornhelm.

Audiences worldwide saw Ms. Po-sy as Fleur Delacour in Mike Newell's Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, which starred Brendan Gleeson and Ralph Fiennes of In Bruges.

She started acting on stage at a very young age, in Le Dragon and in Mai '45/Mai '95.

JÉrÉmie RÉnier

As a child, Brussels-born Jérémie Rénier worked with La Rétine de Plateau, the non-profit organization that helps to make Belgian short films and get them shown. After attending circus school, by age 10 he had a role in the multipart Belgian film Les sept péchés capitaux [The Seven Deadly Sins], and starred as Pinocchio at the Mons Royal Theatre.

His big break came with landing the lead role in Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne's La Promesse [The Promise], which won awards all over the world, including Best Foreign-Language Film citations from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and the National Society of Film Critics. He reunited with the Dardenne brothers nine years later to star in L'enfant [The Child], which won the top prize [the Palme d'Or] at the 2005 Cannes International Film Festival and earned Mr. Rénier a European Film Award nomination for Best Actor, among other honors.

His other films include FranÇois Ozon's Les Amants criminels [Criminal Lovers]; Christophe Gans' Le Pacte des loups [Brotherhood of the Wolf]; Jean-Marc Montout's Violence des échanges en milieu tempéré [a.k.a. Work Hard, Play Hard], for which he was nominated for a César Award; Joachim Lafosse's Nue propriété [a.k.a. Private Property], opposite Isabelle Huppert and his real-life brother Yannick Rénier; and, also for Focus Features, Joe Wright's Atonement, opposite Romola Garai.

Thekla Reuten

Dutch actress Thekla Reuten speaks five languages. After graduating from Amsterdam's Academy of Dramatic Arts, she landed a starring role on the television series Wij Alexander.

Film and theater roles also followed, notably in two features that were both Academy Award-nominated for Best Foreign-Language Film; Dominique Deruddere's Ledereen beroemd! [Everybody's Famous!] and Ben Sombogaart's De Tweeling [Twin Sisters].

Ms. Reuten's other films include Tom Roberts' In Tranzit, alongside Vera Farmiga and John Malkovich; Alex Van Warmerdam's Ober [Waiter]; and Margarethe von Trotta's award-winning Rosenstrasse.

In the spring of 2006, she starred in the U.K. opposite Gael García Bernal in the sold-out Almeida Theatre run of Federico García Lorca's Blood Wedding, directed by Rufus Norris.

Ms. Reuten's work in U.S. film and television has included starring roles in the second series of Sleeper Cell, as a series regular, and Brett Leonard's telefilm Highlander: The Source. She will soon be seen in the highly anticipated new season of Lost, premiering in the winter of 2008.

Jordan Prentice

Ontario-born actor Jordan Prentice works on stage, screen, and television. He most recently wrapped filming Marco Schnabel's The Love Guru, with Mike Myers.

His feature credits also include Danny Leiner's Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle; Allan Moyle's Weirdsville; Michael Mabbott's mockumentary The Life and Hard Times of Guy Terrifico; Danny DeVito's Death to Smoochy; and Joe Nussbaum's American Pie Presents: The Naked Mile and Andrew Waller's American Pie Presents: Beta House.

Mr. Prentice's television work has included guest roles on The Shakespeare Comedy Show, The War Next Door, and Goosebumps, among other programs.

His stage work includes Revenger's Medicine Show, by Eric Woolfe, at the Eldritch Theatre.

Martin McDonagh

Martin McDonagh last wrote and directed Six Shooter, which in 2006 earned him the Academy Award for Best Live-Action Short Film, and which starred Brendan Gleeson of In Bruges.

As a playwright, Mr. McDonagh has twice won the Olivier Award – for The Pillowman and The Lieutenant of Inishmore – and been nominated for the Tony Award four times. His other plays include The Cripple of Inishmaan, The Lonesome West, A Skull in Connemara, and The Beauty Queen of Leenane. The latter was the first of his plays to be produced, at Galway's Druid Theatre and London's Royal Court Theatre.

Born in London to Irish parents, Mr. McDonagh's works have been translated and staged in 41 countries to date.

Graham Broadbent and Pete Czernin

Blueprint Pictures is a London-based film production company established in 2004 by Graham Broadbent and Pete Czernin.

Blueprint's first two productions were both released in 2007. These were Julian Jarrold's Becoming Jane, starring Anne Hathaway and James McAvoy, which was cited by Variety as the “independent hit of the summer;” and Gregory Jacobs' Wind Chill, starring Emily Blunt and executive-produced by George Clooney and Steven Soderbergh. In Bruges is the company's third production.

Currently in development is Skullduggery Pleasant, based on the first book in Derek Landy's best-selling children's horror/fantasy series. Also in development are These Foolish Things, scripted by Deborah Moggach; a film version of Steven Hall's cult novel The Raw Shark Texts; and a screen adaptation of Danny Wallace's comic novel Join Me.

Graham Broadbent is one of the U.K.'s most active independent producers, having made 10 films in the last 11 years. Among them is Michael Winterbottom's Welcome to Sarajevo, which screened In Competition at the 1997 Cannes International Film Festival and was cited by Time Magazine as one of the year's 10 Best Films. More recently, in addition to the aforementioned Blueprint titles, he has produced Danny Boyle's Millions, which won the 2005 British Independent Film Award for Best Screenplay (Frank Cottrell Boyce), and Pete Hewitt's Thunderpants.

Pete Czernin worked for eight years in Los Angeles, including a period as president of DiNovi Pictures. There, he worked on such movies as Luis Mandoki's Message in a Bottle, starring Kevin Costner, and Griffin Dunne's Practical Magic, starring Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock.

Tessa Ross

Tessa Ross was appointed Head of the U.K.'s Channel 4's film department, Film4, in 2002. In 2004, her purview was expanded to add that of Channel 4's Head of Drama; as such, she is now Controller, Film and Drama.

Under Ms. Ross's stewardship, Film4 has built an enviable reputation for developing and financing films like Walter Salles' Academy Award-winning The Motorcycle Diaries (also a Focus Features release); Roger Michell's Venus, starring Peter O'Toole; Michael Winterbottom's The Road to Guantánamo; and Kevin Macdonald's Touching the Void and The Last King of Scotland, starring Forest Whitaker in his Academy Award-winning performance.

Film4's releases in 2007 included Shane Meadows' This is England (winner of Best Independent Film at the 2006 British Independent Film Awards); Anand Tucker's And When Did You Last See Your Father?, starring Colin Firth and Jim Broadbent; Julien Temple's Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten; and David Mackenzie's award-winning Hallam Foe. In production or soon-to-be-released are Sarah Gavron's Brick Lane; Asif Kapadia's True North; Lenny Abrahamson's Garage; Duane Hopkins' Better Things; Harmony Korine's Mister Lonely, starring Samantha Morton; Ken Loach's It's a Free World; Michael Winterbottom's Genova; Sharon Maguire's Incendiary; Fabrice Du Welz's Donkey Punch; and Mike Leigh's new film Happy-Go-Lucky.

Previously, as Head of Drama at Channel 4 from 2000 to 2002, Ms. Ross successfully introduced the strategies of risk and innovation. Programs and telefilms she commissioned during and since that time include Shameless; Terry Johnson's Not Only But Always; Pete Travis' Omagh; Tom Hooper's Longford (starring Jim Broadbent and Samantha Morton) and Elizabeth I (which won the top prizes at both the Emmy and Golden Globe Awards); and David Yates' Sex Traffic, which won eight BAFTA Awards.

She segued to Channel 4 from the BBC's Independent Commissioning Group, where she was Head of Drama. She held that position from 1993 to 2000, building up an entirely new department with an annual output of 120 hours of film and television drama. Among the works that she commissioned and executive-produced at the BBC ICG were Stephen Frears' Liam and Stephen Daldry's Billy Elliot, which was nominated for three Academy Awards.

Prior to joining the ICG, Ms. Ross spent three years as Head of Development for British Screen. There, she was responsible for commissioning and developing screenplays as well as executive-producing a series of short films funded with Channel 4. She has also worked as a script editor for BBC Scotland's television drama department; and as a literary agent at Anthony Sheila Associates.

She has sat on the British Film Institute production board; was an external examiner for the MA in Screenwriting at the Northern Film School; and is now a governor of the National Film and Television School.

Jeff Abberley and Julia Blackman

In August 2002, Jeff Abberley and Julia Blackman established Scion Films. This filmmaking partnership was initiated with the aim of financing and producing British feature films of significance.

In Bruges marks Scion's fifth collaboration with Focus Features, following David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises, which won the top prize [the People's Choice Award] at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival; Phillip Noyce's acclaimed Catch a Fire, starring Tim Robbins and Derek Luke; Joe Wright's Pride & Prejudice, starring Academy Award nominee Keira Knightley; and Fernando Meirelles's The Constant Gardener. For the latter film, Rachel Weisz won the Academy Award, the Golden Globe Award, and the Screen Actors Guild Award, and Mr. Meirelles was a Golden Globe Award nominee.

Scion's slate of films in release or due soon also includes Mary McGuckian's Intervention, starring Jennifer Tilly, Andie MacDowell, and Ian Hart.

The company's previous projects include Scion's first collaboration with Blueprint Pictures, Julian Jarrold's Becoming Jane; Michael Winterbottom's [Tristram Shandy:] A Cock and Bull Story; Joel Schumacher's worldwide success The Phantom of the Opera; Antoine de Caunes's Monsieur N.; Nick Hurran's It's a Boy Girl Thing; Mary McGuckian's The Bridge of San Luis Rey and Rag Tale; and Richard E. Grant's Wah-Wah.

Immediately prior to forming Scion, Mr. Abberley and Ms. Blackman together for two-and-one-half years ran the film financing arm of Future Film Group (FFG) which was involved in U.K. film financing, production distribution, and post-production. Mr. Abberley was one of the founding partners of the company and was director of the group with Ms. Blackman, who was also a lawyer for FFG. The company was involved in the financing and production of, among other films, Gurinder Chadha's sleeper hit Bend It Like Beckham; Fred Schepisi's all-star Last Orders; Mike Barker's To Kill a King; Nick Hurran's Undertaking Betty; and Liliana Cavani's Ripley's Game.

Mr. Abberley previously was an advisor on production financing for film and television projects. Ms. Blackman previously was a lawyer who advised on film financing structures and tax issues for clients with film and television projects. Both also recently executive-produced Richard Attenborough's Closing the Ring.

Ronaldo Vasconcellos

Ronaldo Vasconcellos' most recent project as line producer was Rogue Pictures' hit action comedy Hot Fuzz, directed by Edgar Wright. He had previously collaborated with the Hot Fuzz team as line producer of their earlier hit Shaun of the Dead, also a Rogue Pictures release.

Mr. Vasconcellos has been working in U.K. film production for over two decades. Among the other features he has line-produced are Agnieszka Holland's Copying Beethoven; Andrew Niccol's Lord of War; Lynne Ramsay's Morvern Callar, Shane Meadows' A Room for Romeo Brass, and Guy Ritchie's Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. He has also been a producer on telefilms and documentaries; among the latter, Barrie Gavin's Verdi, A Life in Two Parts, for the BBC via his own Vasconcellos Prods.

He enjoyed a long collaboration with director Ken Russell, beginning as a production assistant on Gothic; becoming associate producer on Salome's Last Dance; line-producing The Lair of the White Worm and The Rainbow; and producing Whore and The Insatiable Mrs. Kirsch, among others.

Eigil Bryld

Eigil Bryld previously was cinematographer on Julian Jarrold's Becoming Jane for In Bruges producers Graham Broadbent and Pete Czernin. He also shot the same director's Kinky Boots, starring Golden Globe Award nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor; and Crime and Punishment (the 2002 telefilm version starring John Simm).

Mr. Bryld graduated from Gwent College of Higher Education, Wales with a higher national diploma in film and video production in 1992. Since then, he has worked as a director of photography on commercials, documentaries, and feature films.

His other feature credits as cinematographer include James Marsh's The King, starring Gael García Bernal and William Hurt; Hella Joof's Oh Happy Day; and Scott Burns' The Half Life of Timofey Berezin.

In 2003, Mr. Bryld won the award for Most Innovating Cinematography at the Madridimagen Festival in Madrid, for his work on Dariusz Steiness' Charlie Butterfly. In 2001, he received a BAFTA Award for his work on James Marsh's Wisconsin Death Trip.

Michael Carlin

Michael Carlin studied sculpture in Perth and Sydney and practiced as a fine artist before moving to London in the late 1980s to pursue a career in film.

He worked in various capacities on independent films such as Peter Greenaway's The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover; Richard Stanley's

Dust Devil; and Iain Softley's Backbeat; and also designed commercials and music videos for, among other artists, Michael Jackson, Duran Duran, Elton John, and George Michael.

Mr. Carlin's first film as production designer was David Evans' Fever Pitch, adapted by Nick Hornby from his own novel and starring Colin Firth. His subsequent films include Tim Roth's The War Zone; Sandra Goldbacher's Me Without You; Thaddeus O'Sullivan's The Heart of Me; Dennie Gordon's What A Girl Wants and New York Minute; and Julian Jarrold's telefilm Crime and Punishment, for which he won a Royal Television Society Award.

His most recent credits include Kevin Macdonald's The Last King of Scotland, starring Academy Award winner Forest Whitaker; Steve Bendelack's Mr. Bean's Holiday, starring Rowan Atkinson; and Saul Dibb's just-wrapped The Duchess, starring Keira Knightley and Ralph Fiennes of In Bruges.

Jon Gregory

Jon Gregory has twice been nominated for a BAFTA Award, for his work on Four Weddings and a Funeral and Alastair Reid's miniseries Traffik; has twice been nominated for the Australian Film Institute [AFI] Award, for editing John Hillcoat's The Propositionand Gregor Jordan's Ned Kelly(also a Focus Features release); was a Genie Award nominee for Sheri Elwood's Deeply; and won an American Cinema Editors' [A.C.E.] Eddie Award for his work on David Tucker's miniseries A Year in Provence.

He has enjoyed multiple collaborations with directors Mike Leigh (on the features Secrets & Lies, Naked, Life is Sweet, and High Hopes as well as the shorts A Sense of History and The Short and Curlies) and Mike Newell (on Four Weddings and a Funeral, Pushing Tin, Donnie Brasco, and An Awfully Big Adventure).

Mr. Gregory's notable feature credits as editor also include Hanif Kureishi's London Kills Me; Richard LaGravenese's Living Out Loud; and Mark Palansky's Penelope.

Jany Temime

Jany Temime has been the costume designer on Alfonso Cuarón's Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Mike Newell's Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, and David Yates' Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. The latter two films featured Brendan Gleeson and Ralph Fiennes of In Bruges.

Ms. Temime has won a Welsh BAFTA Award for her work on Marc Evans' House of America; was a British Independent Film Award nominee for Mel Smith's High Heels and Low Lifes; and was honored with a Golden Calf Award at the 1995 Nederlands Film Festival for Marleen Gorris' Antonia's Line, which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign-Language Film.

Her other credits as costume designer include Mike van Diem's Character, which also won the Academy Award for Best Foreign-Language Film; Alfonso Cuarón's Children of Men; Beeban Kidron's Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason; Agnieszka Holland's Copying Beethoven; Todd Komarnicki's Resistance; Werner Herzog's Invincible; Marleen Gorris' The Luzhin Defence; Dick Maas' The Lift; Paul McGuigan's Gangster No. 1; and Theu Boermans' 1,000 Roses, which won the Golden Calf Award for Best Film at the 1994 Nederlands Film Festival.

Ms. Temime's telefilm credits as costume designer include Theu Boermans' The Partisans, which brought her a Golden Calf Award at the 1995 Nederlands Film Festival, where the film also was named Best Television Drama.

Carter Burwell

For Joel and Ethan Coen, Carter Burwell has scored the films Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink, The Hudsucker Proxy, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, The Man Who Wasn't There, Intolerable Cruelty, The Ladykillers, and No Country for Old Men. He also composed additional music for the Coens' O Brother, Where Art Thou?, which brought him a BAFTA Award nomination; and is beginning work on their newest film, Burn After Reading (also for Focus Features).

Mr. Burwell's other film scores include Julian Schnabel's Before Night Falls, which earned him the [Nino] Rota Soundtrack Award at the 2000 Venice International Film Festival; Spike Jonze's Being John Malkovich and Adaptation; Bill Condon's Kinsey and Gods and Monsters, for which he was honored by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association; John Lee Hancock's The Rookie and The Alamo; David O. Russell's Three Kings; Todd Haynes' Velvet Goldmine; David Mamet's The Spanish Prisoner; Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman's The Celluloid Closet; and Sidney Lumet's Before the Devil Knows You're Dead.

His work in the theater includes the chamber opera The Celestial Alphabet Event; Ariel Dorfman's play Widows; Henry Miller's The 14th Ward; and Mabou Mines' 1994 production of Mother. Mr. Burwell also wrote music to accompany William Burroughs' reading of his novel Junky for Penguin Audiobooks.

As a vocalist, accordionist, and synthesist, Mr. Burwell has performed with the Harmonic Choir, Big Joe, and the Litwinski Ensemble in New York City; as well as France, Italy, Germany, and Australia.

Recordings of his work are available on the following record labels; Universal Music, Virgin, Varese Sarabande, Factory, and Les Disques de Crepescule.