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Dan Wool is an American composer and sound designer. Originally from St. Louis, Missouri, where he played in the punk rock band The Strikers, he is based in San Francisco, California. He has worked in New York, Los Angeles, London, Mexico City, and Anhui (China), creating scores for broadcast television projects, theatrical sound installations and more than 45 feature films, including nine films for celebrated cult filmmaker Alex Cox. From 2010 to 2021 Wool collaborated with filmmaker, and legendary special effects artist Phil Tippett to create the score for Tippett's epic stop-motion feature film Mad God. Wool has also composed music for television movies and episodic series for ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, and HBO. He is often recognized for his work as principal composer in film score soundtrack-group Pray for Rain.
In the themed-entertainment sector, Wool has a portfolio doing the sound design, the musical scores, and on-site mixing for several fly rides, dark rides commissioned by Tippett Studio and Sunac/Wanda Group as well as other immersive experiences.
Wool has also worked creating sound and music for international and domestic advertising and sound-branding and also as sound-designer for short films and documentaries. As a music producer and engineer, Wool has collaborated with international artists such as Bernie Worrell (Parliament-Funkadelic), Philip Chevron and James Fearnley (The Pogues), Debbie Harry (Blondie), and worked with various bay-area recording artists such as All My Pretty Ones, Beth Custer, Enrique, Essence (singer), Indianna Hale, The Mermen, Kally Price and Todd Stadtman.
In the arts, Wool has composed scores and designed sound for The Architecture and Design Museum (A+D Museum), Los Angeles (sound installation for the exhibition "Windshield Perspective" May–July 2013), Choreographer Alice Sheppard, Amy Seiwert's Imagery dance company: Sketch Series (choreographer Marc Brew). AXIS Dance Company, Disability Dance Works, RAWdance, choreographer Sonsherée Giles, The Tea Dancers/Ballet de la Compasión, and seven immersive, multi-channel audio performance installations for Liss Fain Dance. In 2018, his music and sound design work for Phil Tippett and Lucy Raven’s experimental film OUT THERE screened at MoMA (NYC). In October 2010, Wool performed in composer Jem Finer's "Longplayer" installation, sponsored by the Long Now Foundation at YBCA. In the years 2015 to 2018, he was engaged by the U.S. Olympic Synchronized Swimming Team for ongoing compositional and musical services.
In 2023, Wool was nominated for an Annie Award (International Animation Society Award) for Best Music in an Animated Feature Film for Phil Tippett's Mad God. Wool has twice been nominated for an Isadora Duncan Dance Award (Izzie Award), in 2017 for his work with Liss Fain Dance and in 2013 for his work with AXIS Dance Company. In 2014 Dan received an award from Bay Area Dance Watch (Blessay Award) for “Best Dance Soundtrack”
Dan Wool is the brother of screenwriter/electrician/gardener Abbe Wool and stepbrother to Los Angeles musician Zander Schloss (Circle Jerks, Joe Strummer) and St. Louis luminary Chip Schloss.

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