Avi Amon
Adjunct Instructor
AVI AMON is a Turkish-American composer and sound artist. Musicals include: THROUGH THE SUNKEN LANDS (Kennedy Center, 2024) with Tim Lord; SALONIKA (Berkeley Rep Ground Floor) and THE WHITE CITY (O’Neill National Music Theater Conference, Yale Institute, Richard Rogers Award Finalist) with Julia Gytri; JEUNE TERRE (Page73, Playwrights’ Center) with Gab Reisman; and THE LESSON (Ars Nova, dir. Raja Feather Kelly) with Nolan Doran & Ty Defoe. Recent theater highlights include music and sound design for: DANGER & OPPORTUNITY (2025 Drama Desk Award, dir. Jack Serio); EMPTY RIDE (The Old Globe, dir. Sivan Battat); and THE FOLLOWING EVENING with 600 Highwaymen (PAC NYC). Avi’s film scores have been featured at Cannes, Disney, DOCNYC, HBO, Hulu, SWSX, Tribeca, and the 2024 Venice Biennale. His score for the documentary, EVERYTHING YOU HAVE IS YOURS, is now streaming. Upcoming: MOTHER/ROAD, a multimedia performance piece exploring grief & memory premieres at The Shed in 2026. Avi is a MacDowell Fellow and has received artistic support from the Jonathan Larson Grant, Dramatists Guild, Goodspeed, Mercury Store, New Music USA, Rhinebeck, and more. Avi is the music director at the 52nd Street Project and teaches at NYU Tisch. He lives in Brooklyn with his family. www.aviamon.com