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Al Sgro began his professional music career as a multi-instrumentalist, touring internationally with Gary Jules following the success of his seminal cover of “Mad World,” featured in the film Donnie Darko. After the tour, he interned with the film’s composer, Mike Andrews, gaining his first hands-on experience in scoring for motion pictures.

Since 2023, he has also worked with advertising agencies, film and television productions, recording artists, and independent labels as a music business consultant, advising on rights and clearances, intellectual property development and protection, and strategic navigation of the evolving music industry landscape, including licensing, distribution, and digital exploitation.

In 2001, he helped launch The Hotel Cafe, a renowned Hollywood music venue, and later opened his first studio with a partner. There, he began producing and touring with many of the venue’s emerging artists.

As his work began found its way into film and television, Al was drawn back to composing. In 2008, he joined the team scoring six seasons of the ABC Studios comedy Cougar Town, starring Courteney Cox. He has since composed for CBS’s primetime reboot of Rush Hour and scored the YouTube Red single-camera comedy Me and My Grandma, starring Rhea Perlman and Eva Gutowski. He has also contributed to a range of independent feature documentaries and short-form narrative projects.

Al is also a founding member of the Son of Semele Ensemble, a nonprofit theater company. With SOSE, he directed and scored two West Coast premieres of plays by avant-garde pioneer Richard Foreman—including Film Is Evil: Radio Is Good, which was featured on the cover of American Theatre Magazine.

A recipient of an ASCAP Film & TV Music Award, a Latin Grammy Awards honor, and two LA Theatre Ovation Awards nominations, he is currently producing out of his studio in Eagle Rock, Los Angeles.