Composers

Michael Mott

Composer

is an internationally critically acclaimed award winning composer/ lyricist, songwriter, vocal producer and educator with over 15 million streams to his name. He is a top ten Billboard charting artist who has been heralded one of Playbill’s „Contemporary Musical Theatre Songwriters You Should Know.“ His work has appeared on multiple television networks and he currently has songs featured on three Netflix shows simultaneously, including „Love Is Blind“ (Season 8), „Owning Manhattan“ (Season 2), and „Temptation Island“ (Seasons 1 & 2).

Original musicals include In The Light, A Faustian Tale, Sometimes Love, Mob Wife, A Mafia Comedy and Riding Out The Storm, a ten minute musical, which has been adapted into a short film and won „Best Musical Film“ from several international film festivals, including the New York International Film Awards and the Oniros Film Awards in New York City, the Reale Film Festival in Milan, Italy and the Monza Film Festival in Monza, Italy. Additionally, Mott was commissioned to write the music and lyrics to Lucifer as well as the score to the dance short film, Sundown. He is currently writing two new stage musicals.

Best known for his recording studio work, Mott’s discography includes the LPs Where The Sky Ends, In The Light, A Faustian Tale (Highlights from the World Premiere Studio Cast Recording) [which debuted at #8 on the Billboard Musical Theatre charts], and Abandoned Heart, all distributed by Grammy Award Winning label, Broadway Records. Having started his own independent label, Motta Music, in 2016, independent releases include the EPs The Only One, Where The Sky Ends: The Dance Remixes  and Gone: The Remixes and Riding Out The Storm (Original Short Film Soundtrack). Singles include Here and Now (feat. Pia Toscano), Christmas, Will You Stay? (feat. Laura Osnes), The Impossible (feat. Matt Bloyd), Fly High (feat. Aisha Jackson) and To All A Goodnight (feat. Jessica Vosk). He has written original award winning material for NYC’s The Boy Band Project, including Get Behind My Love and Jingle My Bells (Winner – Best Original Song, 2020 Broadway World Cabaret World Award). His entire discography is available wherever music is sold.

Mr. Mott is currently an Adjunct Music Instructor at Fordham University and the New York Film Academy in New York City, Advanced member of the BMI Musical Theatre Writer’s Workshop, proud member of The Dramatists Guild, Actor’s Equity Association, and Voting Member of the Recording Academy.