Deana Kiner
Deana Kiner (born May 29, 1992) is an American composer and multi-instrumentalist, known for her work on the soundtracks of Star Wars Rebels, Transformers: Robots in Disguise, and Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
Career
[edit]Kiner began studying film scoring at Berklee College of Music, but eventually left the program to study songwriting within the same institution. She briefly worked at a Starbucks until her father convinced her to collaborate with him on a composition project, which turned out to be the Netflix documentary Making a Murderer.[1]
She also worked as a composer on the Singaporean animated series Trese, released by Netflix on June 10, 2021.[2]
She composed the song Igyah Kah, which Sabine Wren listens to in the first episode of the 2023 web series Ahsoka, in collaboration with Kevin Kiner, Ludwig Göransson, and Noah Gorelick.[3]
On July 28, 2024, Kiner participated in a panel at the San Diego Comic-Con International titled The Character Of Music: The Art of Scoring for Animation Panel.[4]
Filmography
[edit]Film
[edit]| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | The Adventures of Knickerbock Teetertop | Opening & closing theme | Short film |
| Jedi with a GoPro 2 | Composer | Video | |
| 2016 | In the Shadow of the Hill | Additional music | Film |
| Un verano en Manhattan | Additional music | Film | |
| The Curious Kitty & Friends | Additional music | Short film | |
| 2017 | Inconceivable | Additional music | Film |
| Tout nous sépare | Additional music | Film | |
| 2019 | Summoners War: Friends & Rivals | Composer | Short film |
| 2022 | Samaritan | Additional music | Film |
| 2024 | I'm in Love with Edgar Allan Poe | Composer | Short film |
Television
[edit]| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014–2016 | Hell on Wheels | Additional music | 27 episodes |
| 2014–2017 | Transformers: Robots in Disguise | Additional music | 71 episodes |
| 2015–2018 | Making a Murderer | Additional music | 20 episodes |
| 2015–2019 | Jane the Virgin | Additional music | 65 episodes |
| 2016–2018 | Star Wars Rebels | Additional music | 30 episodes |
| 2018 | Narcos: Mexico | Additional music | 10 episodes |
| Titans | Additional music | 11 episodes | |
| 2018–2019 | Single Parents | Composer | 23 episodes |
| 2020 | Star Wars: The Clone Wars | Additional music | 12 episodes |
| Single Parents | Main theme music | 2 episodes | |
| 2021 | Star Wars: The Bad Batch | Additional music | 16 episodes |
| Trese | Composer | 6 episodes | |
| City on a Hill | Additional music | 8 episodes | |
| 2022–2023 | Dark Winds | Composer | 12 episodes |
| 2024 | Star Wars: The Bad Batch | Composer | 6 episodes |
| Star Wars: Tales of the Empire | Composer | 3 episodes |
Personal life
[edit]Deana is the daughter of composer Kevin Kiner. On May 12, 2023, she came out as a trans woman. She is also bisexual.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ "From Star Wars to Trese: The Kiner Brothers on Composing Music for Today's TV Landscape". Mixed Asian Media. 2021-10-15. Retrieved 18 June 2025.
- ^ "[TRAILER] Netflix's Upcoming Anime Series 'Trese' Hunts Monsters Buffy-the-Vampire Style". Rotoscopers. 2021-05-25. Retrieved 18 June 2025.
- ^ "The song Sabine listens to in 'Ahsoka' is a galactic punk banger". 20 Minutos. 2023-08-24. Retrieved 18 June 2025.
- ^ ""The Character Of Music: The Art of Scoring for Animation Panel" at Comic-Con 2024". Three If By Space. 2024-07-28. Retrieved 18 June 2025.
- ^ "Deana Kiner on Discovering and Orchestrating Her Trans Identity". Mixed Asian Media. 2023-08-08. Retrieved 18 June 2025.
External links
[edit]- 1992 births
- Living people
- American women film score composers
- American LGBTQ composers
- American transgender women
- American transgender musicians
- American bisexual women
- American bisexual musicians
- Bisexual women musicians
- Bisexual composers
- Transgender bisexual women
- Transgender women musicians
- Transgender composers
- LGBTQ film score composers
- 21st-century American women composers
- 21st-century American multi-instrumentalists
- 21st-century American LGBTQ people