Douglas Romayne

Douglas Romayne (born Douglas Romayne Stevens on June 21, 1964, in Corning, NY) is a professional musician whose work includes creating scores, score mockups and proofing. In 2018 he began performing as a singer-songwriter at many of the California wineries and breweries of the central coast.

Douglas Romayne and KJ Vickery, co-own Bleu Jean Music and Back Pocket, their professional music production studio.

Romayne's education includes a BA in music composition from Cornerstone College. He studied music and advanced orchestration at the University of Chicago and DePaul University with Cliff Colnot, New Music Conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and music composition with Hans Wurman. In Los Angeles he attended the University of Southern California, Thornton School of Music Program, where he studied scoring for motion pictures and television under Christopher Young and Elmer Bernstein, among others.

Romayne also studied orchestration and advanced conducting at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Two years after graduating from the USC program, Romayne was hired by Joss Whedon to score his series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

His awards include a BMI Film Music Award for his work at the USC Film Scoring Program and a Park City Film Music Festival Gold Medal for Outstanding Achievement in Film Music. He was nominated for Best Use of Score by the Film & TV Music Academy.He also co-scored with lead composer Robert Kral the WB Animation series Duck Dodgers episode "Invictus Interruptus", which won the Annie Award for Outstanding Music in an Animated Television Production.