Jonathan David Sloate
- Composer
- Music Department
- Producer
Jonathan David Sloate is an American composer, lyricist, playwright, and screenwriter. He wrote "The New Picasso" and "The Tower of Babel" after years of composing for film and television.
In 2018, AllThingsBroadway named "The New Picasso" to the Top 40 Broadway Musicals alongside critically acclaimed / mega hits The Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables, Hamilton, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Beauty and the Beast, Dear Evan Hansen, Come From Away, Next to Normal, Frozen, Sweeney Todd, Into the Woods, Aladdin, Sunday in the Park with George, Finding Neverland, Ragtime, Groundhog Day, Once, Blood Brothers, In the Heights, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, and Wicked.
BroadwayWorld nominated "The New Picasso" for Best New Concept Cast or Studio Cast Recording at the 2014 BroadwayWorld Album Awards competing with Sony Pictures' ratings smash success The Sound of Music Live! on NBC which had 18.62 million live viewers.
"The New Picasso" and "The Tower of Babel" have received 68 Awards at worldwide film festivals and writing competitions including Best Screenplay at World-Fest Houston International Film Festival and The Indie Gathering in Cleveland, Best Theater Song out of 560,000 song submissions and Best Theater Album out of 42,000 album entries at the JPF Music Awards in Nashville, and Best Play at Writer's Digest out of 19,000 entries. Jonathan hit #1 on the ReverbNation Classical Charts, ReverbNation is home to over 3 million music artists. His compilation release "The New Picasso / The Tower of Babel: Score Highlights from the Musical Concept Albums" won 21 Featured Artist Music Awards at ReverbNation.
Jonathan graduated from Northwestern University with a degree in political science focusing on classical political philosophy and comparative literature.
He has written for Warner Bros., New Line, Disney-MGM, Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment Group, Miramax, Dimension Films, Polygram Filmed Entertainment, Film Roman, USA Network, CBS, TNT, Turner Home Entertainment, Hasbro, BMG, Nickelodeon, NBA, and the ShoWest Awards. Jonathan's original scores are featured in productions starring Kate Winslet (Titanic, Avatar 2), Hugh Grant (Love Actually, Notting Hill), Tom Wilkinson (The Grand Budapest Hotel, Shakespeare in Love), Emma Thompson (Harry Potter, Nanny McPhee), Alan Rickman (Die Hard, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves), James Fleet (The Phantom of the Opera, Four Weddings and a Funeral), Harriet Walter (The Young Victoria, Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens), Gemma Jones (You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, Bridget Jones's Diary), Elizabeth Spriggs (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone), Robert Hardy (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban), Hugh Laurie (House, Tomorrowland), Oliver Ford Davies (Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace, Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones), Greg Wise (Johnny English, Effie Gray), Imelda Staunton (Pride, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix), Claire Danes (Homeland, Romeo + Juliet), Jon Cryer (Two and a Half Men, Pretty in Pink), Kate Burton (Grey's Anatomy, Scandal), Ron Perlman (Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Hand of God), Clancy Brown (The Shawshank Redemption, Thor: Ragnarok), John Vernon (Animal House, Dirty Harry), Brian Tochi (Police Academy, Revenge of the Nerds), Olivia d'Abo (Wayne's World 2, Conan the Destroyer), Cree Summer (The Rugrats Movie, Atlantis: The Lost Empire), Luke Perry (The Fifth Element, Beverly Hills, 90210), Dorian Harewood (Full Metal Jacket, Pacific Heights), Christopher Lambert (Highlander, Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes), Rhona Mitra (Underworld: Rise of the Lycans, The Life of David Gale), Patricia Velasquez (The Mummy, Arrested Development), Paolo Montalban (The King and I, Cinderella), Daniel Bernhardt (Atomic Blonde, The Matrix Reloaded), Kristanna Loken (Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, In the Name of the King; A Dungeon Siege Tale), Eva Mendes (Hitch, The Other Guys), Robin Shou (Mortal Kombat, Death Race), Linden Ashby (Resident Evil: Extinction, Wyatt Earp), Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa (Planet of the Apes, Pearl Harbor), Bridgette Wilson-Sampras (Billy Madison, The Wedding Planner), Talisa Soto (Licence to Kill, Spy Hard), Frank Welker (Transformers, Tangled), Nick Chinlund (Training Day, The Chronicles of Riddick), John Rhys-Davies (The Lord of the Rings, Raiders of the Lost Ark), Peter Brock (To Kill a Mockingbird, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country), Kevin Michael Richardson (Lilo & Stitch, The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water), Michael Des Barres (MacGyver, NCIS), Dawnn Lewis (Dreamgirls), Trevor Goddard (Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Deep Rising), Bruce Locke (The Man in the High Castle, Robocop 3), Adoni Maropis (Troy, The Scorpion King), Chris Casamassa (Blade, Batman & Robin), Jaime Pressly (My Name is Earl, Not Another Teen Movie), Brooke Burns (Shallow Hal, Baywatch), Tracy Douglas (Boomerang), Fabiana Udenio (Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery), John Reilly (Iron Man, General Hospital), Sung Hi Lee (The Girl Next Door, Nurse Betty), Tom Nowicki (Remember the Titans, Dolphin Tale), Hank Stone (Cold Mountain, The Patriot), Kathleen Kinmont (Renegade, Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers), Josie Davis (Two and a Half Men, CSI: NY), Alana De La Garza (Law & Order, Law & Order: LA), Maria Arce (Just Friends, Paul Blart: Mall Cop), George Cheung (Rush Hour, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me), Greg Vaughan (Charmed, Days of Our Lives), Jim Cummings (Christopher Robin, The Princess and the Frog), Jeff Bennett (Enchanted, The Penguins of Madagascar), Lisa Jakub (Mrs. Doubtfire, Independence Day), Andrew Leeds (Office Christmas Party, Bones), Chaz Lamar Shepherd (Set it Off, The Nutty Professor), Alex Greenwald (Donnie Darko, The Amazing Spider-Man), Christopher Daniel Barnes (The Little Mermaid, Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions), and Joe Flaherty (Happy Gilmore, Back to the Future Part II).
As a drummer, Jonathan formed the original rock/blues band Midnight Sun performing with legendary blues artists Buddy Guy, Junior Wells and the Marshall Tucker Band at iconic venues like the Checkerboard Lounge, Buddy Guy's Legends, B.L.U.E.S. Etc., and Biddy Mulligans.
In 2018, AllThingsBroadway named "The New Picasso" to the Top 40 Broadway Musicals alongside critically acclaimed / mega hits The Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables, Hamilton, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Beauty and the Beast, Dear Evan Hansen, Come From Away, Next to Normal, Frozen, Sweeney Todd, Into the Woods, Aladdin, Sunday in the Park with George, Finding Neverland, Ragtime, Groundhog Day, Once, Blood Brothers, In the Heights, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, and Wicked.
BroadwayWorld nominated "The New Picasso" for Best New Concept Cast or Studio Cast Recording at the 2014 BroadwayWorld Album Awards competing with Sony Pictures' ratings smash success The Sound of Music Live! on NBC which had 18.62 million live viewers.
"The New Picasso" and "The Tower of Babel" have received 68 Awards at worldwide film festivals and writing competitions including Best Screenplay at World-Fest Houston International Film Festival and The Indie Gathering in Cleveland, Best Theater Song out of 560,000 song submissions and Best Theater Album out of 42,000 album entries at the JPF Music Awards in Nashville, and Best Play at Writer's Digest out of 19,000 entries. Jonathan hit #1 on the ReverbNation Classical Charts, ReverbNation is home to over 3 million music artists. His compilation release "The New Picasso / The Tower of Babel: Score Highlights from the Musical Concept Albums" won 21 Featured Artist Music Awards at ReverbNation.
Jonathan graduated from Northwestern University with a degree in political science focusing on classical political philosophy and comparative literature.
He has written for Warner Bros., New Line, Disney-MGM, Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment Group, Miramax, Dimension Films, Polygram Filmed Entertainment, Film Roman, USA Network, CBS, TNT, Turner Home Entertainment, Hasbro, BMG, Nickelodeon, NBA, and the ShoWest Awards. Jonathan's original scores are featured in productions starring Kate Winslet (Titanic, Avatar 2), Hugh Grant (Love Actually, Notting Hill), Tom Wilkinson (The Grand Budapest Hotel, Shakespeare in Love), Emma Thompson (Harry Potter, Nanny McPhee), Alan Rickman (Die Hard, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves), James Fleet (The Phantom of the Opera, Four Weddings and a Funeral), Harriet Walter (The Young Victoria, Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens), Gemma Jones (You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, Bridget Jones's Diary), Elizabeth Spriggs (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone), Robert Hardy (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban), Hugh Laurie (House, Tomorrowland), Oliver Ford Davies (Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace, Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones), Greg Wise (Johnny English, Effie Gray), Imelda Staunton (Pride, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix), Claire Danes (Homeland, Romeo + Juliet), Jon Cryer (Two and a Half Men, Pretty in Pink), Kate Burton (Grey's Anatomy, Scandal), Ron Perlman (Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Hand of God), Clancy Brown (The Shawshank Redemption, Thor: Ragnarok), John Vernon (Animal House, Dirty Harry), Brian Tochi (Police Academy, Revenge of the Nerds), Olivia d'Abo (Wayne's World 2, Conan the Destroyer), Cree Summer (The Rugrats Movie, Atlantis: The Lost Empire), Luke Perry (The Fifth Element, Beverly Hills, 90210), Dorian Harewood (Full Metal Jacket, Pacific Heights), Christopher Lambert (Highlander, Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes), Rhona Mitra (Underworld: Rise of the Lycans, The Life of David Gale), Patricia Velasquez (The Mummy, Arrested Development), Paolo Montalban (The King and I, Cinderella), Daniel Bernhardt (Atomic Blonde, The Matrix Reloaded), Kristanna Loken (Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, In the Name of the King; A Dungeon Siege Tale), Eva Mendes (Hitch, The Other Guys), Robin Shou (Mortal Kombat, Death Race), Linden Ashby (Resident Evil: Extinction, Wyatt Earp), Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa (Planet of the Apes, Pearl Harbor), Bridgette Wilson-Sampras (Billy Madison, The Wedding Planner), Talisa Soto (Licence to Kill, Spy Hard), Frank Welker (Transformers, Tangled), Nick Chinlund (Training Day, The Chronicles of Riddick), John Rhys-Davies (The Lord of the Rings, Raiders of the Lost Ark), Peter Brock (To Kill a Mockingbird, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country), Kevin Michael Richardson (Lilo & Stitch, The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water), Michael Des Barres (MacGyver, NCIS), Dawnn Lewis (Dreamgirls), Trevor Goddard (Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Deep Rising), Bruce Locke (The Man in the High Castle, Robocop 3), Adoni Maropis (Troy, The Scorpion King), Chris Casamassa (Blade, Batman & Robin), Jaime Pressly (My Name is Earl, Not Another Teen Movie), Brooke Burns (Shallow Hal, Baywatch), Tracy Douglas (Boomerang), Fabiana Udenio (Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery), John Reilly (Iron Man, General Hospital), Sung Hi Lee (The Girl Next Door, Nurse Betty), Tom Nowicki (Remember the Titans, Dolphin Tale), Hank Stone (Cold Mountain, The Patriot), Kathleen Kinmont (Renegade, Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers), Josie Davis (Two and a Half Men, CSI: NY), Alana De La Garza (Law & Order, Law & Order: LA), Maria Arce (Just Friends, Paul Blart: Mall Cop), George Cheung (Rush Hour, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me), Greg Vaughan (Charmed, Days of Our Lives), Jim Cummings (Christopher Robin, The Princess and the Frog), Jeff Bennett (Enchanted, The Penguins of Madagascar), Lisa Jakub (Mrs. Doubtfire, Independence Day), Andrew Leeds (Office Christmas Party, Bones), Chaz Lamar Shepherd (Set it Off, The Nutty Professor), Alex Greenwald (Donnie Darko, The Amazing Spider-Man), Christopher Daniel Barnes (The Little Mermaid, Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions), and Joe Flaherty (Happy Gilmore, Back to the Future Part II).
As a drummer, Jonathan formed the original rock/blues band Midnight Sun performing with legendary blues artists Buddy Guy, Junior Wells and the Marshall Tucker Band at iconic venues like the Checkerboard Lounge, Buddy Guy's Legends, B.L.U.E.S. Etc., and Biddy Mulligans.