Age: 63
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Michael Abels (born October 8, 1962) is an American composer best known for the opera Omar, co-written with Rhiannon Giddens, and his scores for the Jordan Peele films Get Out, Us and Nope. The hip-hop-influenced score for Us was short-listed for the Oscars and was even named "Score of the Decade" by TheWrap. Other recent media projects include the films Bad Education, Nightbooks, and Fake Famous, and the docuseries Allen v. Farrow. His most recent releases include Beauty, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and is now streaming on Netflix; Breaking (formerly 892), which premiered at Sundance; and his third collaboration with Jordan Peele, Nope. Abels' works also include many concert works, such as At War With Ourselves for the Kronos Quartet, Isolation Variation for Hilary Hahn, and the opera Omar, co-composed with Grammy-winning singer/songwriter Rhiannon Giddens. Some of these pieces are available on Cedille Records, including Delights & Dances and Winged Creatures. Recent commissions include a work for the National Symphony Orchestraand a guitar concerto for Mak Grgić. Abels is a co-founder of the Composers Diversity Collective. This advocacy group increases the visibility of composers of colour in film, gaming, and streaming media. In 2023, the opera Omar, co-written by Abels and Rhiannon Giddens, won the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Abels, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Laura Kearney and Max Brinly travel to the Upstate of New York in the middle of the night to visit Hackett's Quarry, where the two have been hired as summer camp tutors. The two deviate from the road to avoid hitting an unknown creature and crash into the woods. A local sheriff approaches their car and gets suspectful. So he orders Laura and Max to spend the night in a motel near Hackett's Quarry, but the two don't listen to him and go to the summer camp venue. When they arrive, the two break into the basement to investigate something Laura saw, but Max is suddenly attacked by a monster. The sheriff arrives at the camp, seats Laura and shoots the creature in the basement. Two months later, seven camp tutors: Abigail "Abi" Blyg, Dylan Lenivy, Emma Mountebank, Jacob Custos, Kaitlyn Ka, Nicholas "Nick" Furcillo and Ryan Erzahler prepare to leave Hackett's Quarry. They get stuck after their vehicle is sabotaged by Jacob, who wants to spend another night with Emma, with whom he is in love. The owner of the camp, Chris Hackett, asks them to stay locked inside the cabin for the night and tells them that he will return the next morning. The group, however, does not listen to him and decides to organize a party with a bonfire and play Truth or Dare. During the game, Emma is challenged to kiss either Jacob or Nick, Abi's crush. Emma chooses Nick, pushing Abi and Jacob to run away.
