Paris Ray Dozier

Paris Ray Dozier is an American Songwriter from Los Angeles, California whose Musical Theatre productions have opened and continue to run across the United States. Dozier's career began when he was 15, after attending the Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute in West Hollywood, CA, where he performed in various Shakespearean productions. He went on to write songs for artists on Disney Music Group's Hollywood Records, where he was also signed as a singer-songwriter and producer. Soon after his tenure at Hollywood Records, Paris became the head of the music department and theme writer for B InTune TV, which broadcasted to over 100 million households in the United States and 54 countries worldwide - on the UPN Network, ABC Television, NBC and Fox.
Dozier has done work for Above Average Productions’s The Kicker; the online comedy platform of Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels and SNL’s co-head writer, Bryan Tucker. He produced the music for the musical comedy sketch “Hold Em Back” starring SNL star, Keenan Thompson. Dozier has also composed the music, lyrics and original scores for various regional plays and nationally recognized musicals including Last Stop on Market Street, The Watsons Go to Birmingham, In the Blood, Girlhood, Mr. Chickee's Funny Money and X Marks the Spot. In 2018, he worked as the composer for the Lyric Opera of Chicago's Empower Youth Musical: We Got Next. In 2021, Dozier was brought on to write the music & lyrics for the contemporary musical theatre reboot of the Wizard of Oz, Emerald City, a Seattle Repertory Theatre and Public Works production. In 2022, he signed on to do the music & lyrics for the musical theatre adaptation of Milo Imagines the World.