Michael Reno

Michael's background and home is the musical theatre, where he works as producer, composer, music director, arranger, and orchestrator. He is the composer and lyricist of several musicals and musical revues which have been performed across the US and Canada, including “Tidal Wave”, “Quarks: The First Minute”, “Weapons of Mass Deception”, and “Gypsies.” He composed the film score for “North Cross Jordan”, as well as the television productions “Time On Their Hands” and “Coming to Ametrica”. Other TV projects include the Hallmark annual Christmas movie “Twice Upon a Christmas”, the Miss America Pageant, and various projects for NBC. He composed the unofficial anthem for the city of San Francisco in the 70s and 80s, “San Francisco Bye-Bye.”

Michael was producer for “Sister Act the Musical” at the Pasadena Playhouse, the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, and the Palladium Theater in London’s West End. Other venues in which he has worked include Montreal's Place des Artes, the Vienna Concert House, the Shanghai Center Theatre, New York's Madison Square Garden, L.A.'s Universal Amphitheatre, the White House, and many major hotels in Las Vegas such as Caesar’s Palace, The Bellagio, and Mandalay Bay.

The nearly 100 musical productions that he has worked on include musical theatre classics such as “Fiddler on the Roof”, ”Mame”, “Cabaret”, “Man of La Mancha”, “My Fair Lady”, “Peter Pan”, “West Side Story”, “Grease”, “Camelot”, “Applause”, “Annie”, “Anything Goes”, “Guys and Dolls”, “Gypsy”, and “Hello, Dolly” as well more diverse works such as Leonard Bernstein's ”Mass”, “Candide”, the original San Francisco production of “The Rocky Horror Show”, and the summer stock premieres of “Jesus Christ Superstar” and “Hair”.

In the Los Angeles area, where Michael now makes his home with actress Roz McHenry, he has worked on stage productions for the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera, the Pasadena Playhouse, Lawrence Welk, the Celebrity Theatre, and the Coronet Theatre. His work in the L.A. area has earned him numerous Ovation Awards, as well as the L.A. Drama Critic's Circle Award for the West Coast premiere of “Working.”

Michael is currently occupied as co-founder and owner of two businesses: “My Songs” Personalized Music for children, and “Music for Conventions”, which provides musical services to corporate America.