About Randy

Hale-Randy_Bangkok_webRandy Hale began his life as a songwriter, as many young men do. At the age of sixteen, in the face of unrequited love, he wrote his first song. A native of Cherokee, Oklahoma, Hale spent his high school years at the International School in Bangkok, Thailand. An Army brat who was often in trouble for his high spirits and uncanny ability to contradict his father at just the wrong moment, Hale spent most of his senior year restricted to his room. At her wit’s end, his mother moved the piano into his bedroom and from that moment on, the songs have been pouring out.

Hale graduated from Colorado Mesa University and the University of Utah as a Theater Arts and Music major. He did a stint in the military where he became an Army Nurse and ran an Emergency Room in Nuremburg, Germany. After the army, Hale moved to Los Angeles to study music. He enrolled at the Dick Grove School Of Music where he studied music theory, composition, and songwriting with Dick Grove, George Duke, and Larry Muhoberac (piano player for Elvis) and jazz vocals with Pinky Winters. He studied film composing with Don Raye, Jerry Goldsmith, and Earle Hagen at UCLA. Hale has written music for film, television, educational projects, and theme parks. He wrote the songs and co-authored the book for the musical, Songs From The Tall Grass that made its world premier at the historic Ford’s Theatre in Washington, DC.

Hale’s work has been nominated for Best Composer by the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences and has received the National Endowment for the Arts’ American Masterpieces: Three Centuries of Artistic Genius and Challenge America grants. He has been a featured speaker at the National Game Developers Conference and received an artist’s residency fellowship at the Anderson Center For Interdisciplinary Studies. Hale is a member of BMI, SAG, Actor’s Equity, the National Association of Songwriters, and the Dramatist Guild.