Age: 47
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Emmy Award winning composer Bear McCreary was first launched into pop culture with his groundbreaking score to the hit series Battlestar Galactica, that was lauded by Variety as “the most innovative music on TV today.” It “fits the action so perfectly, it’s almost devastating: a sci-fi score like no other” (NPR). Io9.com ranked McCreary one of the Ten Best Science Fiction Composers of All Time, and recently WIRED Magazine declared him one of only five “Secret Weapons” of the television industry. McCreary was recently voted “Composers’ Choice Composer of the Year – Television” by his peers in ASCAP, the first award of its kind. Bear has conducted orchestral performances of his music throughout North America and Europe, appearing at Fimucité in Tenerife, and the International Film Music Festival in Úbeda, Spain. In July 2014, his music was performed by the L.A. Philharmonic and L.A. Master Choraleat the Hollywood Bowl, conducted by Gustavo Dudamel. Attending the prestigious Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California, Bear completed degrees in composition and recording arts. However, his professional training came from film music legend Elmer Bernstein (The Magnificent Seven, To Kill a Mocking Bird). Bear was one of Bernstein’s select protégés, and learned the tools of the trade working with and orchestrating for the maestro. Bear spent his childhood immersed in film and television music; he is delighted now to contribute back to the genres that inspired him.
After his trucker parents were killed in an accident, Ulysses Solomon Archer was taken in by Poppa Wheelie and Wide Load Annie at the Short Stop Diner. Upon graduating college, U.S. decides to follow in his parents' footsteps as a trucker, but he is run off the road on his first haul by the mysterious Highwayman, leaving him severely injured. As part of the reconstructive surgery he undergoes, U.S. has part of his skull replaced by an experimental alloy which gives him the the ability to pick up certain radio frequencies. Vowing to track down the Highwayman, U.S. utilizes his engineering knowhow to upgrade and customize his truck into a high-tech rig loaded with weaponry and gadgets, including a remote control disguised as a silver dollar.
