Composer Mel McMurrin is a specialist in "wild kid’s music that teaches." With the award-wining Bungee Jumpin’ Cows he has produced CDs Rockin’ The Foundations of Science and Rock Candy as well as game music for LucasArts’ Mortimer and the Riddles of the Medallion. He was a co-writer for Dole Food Company’s Five a Day Live CD. With LHS he was principal composer for The Wizard of Odds, and collaborator on Don’t Panic…It’s Oceanic, Journey From the Center of the Earth and others.
He has acted locally for The San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, Center Repertory and Entrée to Murder. He is the voice of Calypso in Twisted Metal for the Playstation and has recorded with Ray Lynch and The Bobs.
"Kids are the best audience around. They know what they like and they’ll let you know big time when they like something. This enthusiasm drives our pop culture, so it’s especially rewarding to inject health, science and social studies topics into theater and song for children. Knowing a song I helped write about worms and conservation (I Am A Worm) is sung at camps all over the country, beats the heck out of hearing my work on a national commercial. I grew up with School House rock, which I really appreciated as a kid not just because it was funny/cool music, but because I was being given something really useful to my life. I hope my work can be just such a gift."