Tom Kitt is an American composer, conductor, orchestrator and musician. For his score for the musical NEXT TO NORMAL, he was awar4ded the Tony Award as well as being nominated for a Drama Desk Award, and winning a 2008 Outer Critics Circle Award. He attended Columbia College, New York City, graduating with a degree in economics in 1996. He composed the music for the musicals HIGH FIDELITY and NEXT TO NORMAL and the play FROM UP HERE. He won the 2008 Outer Critics Circle Award, Outstanding new Score, and was nominated for the Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Music; and Tony Awards for Best Original Score Written for the Theatre and Best Orchestrations, all for NEXT TO NO RMAL. Kitt has also been a music director and conductor on Broadway since 2002 and he received the 2009 Fredrick Loewe Award for Dramatic Composition for NEXT TO NORMAL from the Dramatists Guild of America.
