Hey, fam!!! it’s Kira.
Kira Stone is a composer, lyricist, songwriter, playwright, performer, and music producer fueled by the rhythms, rhymes, and songwriting technique of pop music, and rooted in the storytelling of musical theater.
At 15, Kira began songwriting, writing and recording her first single, "Peter Pan", (600k+ plays on Spotify, Sirius XM Radio, iTunes Top 20).
Kira now creates new musical projects that combine her prowess of pop music and its many subgenres, and her passion for musical theater storytelling. Current projects include SALEM (a new musical about the accused women and the accusers of the Salem Witch Trials), Built For This (a new musical inspired by the U.S. Women’s Gymnastics team and their takedown of the biggest sexual predator in sports history, book by Lauren Gunderson), Revival (a new musical fever dream//reverie//rhapsody about Joan of Arc), & a thriller//dark comedy musical in 1950s suburbia about a secret society (i.e. coven) of killer housewives (book by Matthew Greene). Kira is also the creator and founder of The Pop Collective (produced by Ari Conte), a community of 100+ songwriters and composers in New York City actively creating music that fuses pop songwriting technique and storytelling.
Kira’s musical work has been developed and presented at the Shubert Artistic Circle Fellowship, Playwrights Horizons, Goodspeed (Festival of New Musicals), ASCAP Musical Theater Workshop, Circle in the Square Theatre, Olney Theater Center, Fault Line Theatre, New York Musical Festival (R.I.P.), New York Theatre Barn, University of Michigan, University of Southern California, the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, and 54 Below. Awards include: Vanguard Arts Award (Olney Theater Center, Built For This), NAMT Frank Young Fund Award, Diderot AiR Grant (Chateau Orquevaux, Revival). Residencies include: Vineyard Arts Project, The BringAbout (Brooklyn), Chateau d’Orquevaux in Champagne, France. Finalist: The Kleban Prize (2024), American Music Theater Project at Northwestern (SALEM), Rhinebeck Writers Retreat (3x) (2022, SALEM; 2023 & 2024, Built For This), The Civilians’ R&D 2020-2021 Group (Built for This), Johnny Mercer Songwriters Project, New Dramatists Composer-Librettist Studio, Fault Line Theatre “Irons in the Fire” (2021, Built For This; 2023, SALEM). Semifinalist: O’Neill National Music Theatre Conference (2x) (2024, Built For This & WIDOWS). Nominated: Princess Grace Award (2024), Vivace Award (2021). Grants: AiR (Artist in Residency) in France.
In TV/Film, Kira currently works as a songwriter, music producer, and vocalist for Sesame Street.
A Bay Area, East Coast, & Nashville native, she now currently resides in Brooklyn with her husband and two daughters.
Kira is also a proud member of The Dramatists Guild, ASCAP, The Recording Academy, Actor’s Equity, & Maestra.
on a more personal note, here are some things I like/love/healthily obsess over: pop music, hip-hop, donuts, rainstorms, slant rhymes, a good hoodie, 808 bass & beats, dr. pepper, going to the best restaurants, cool shoes, greenery, magical theatrical experiences, i could go on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! somebody stop me!