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 her passion for theatrical storytelling, writing ravenously about the force of the female experience. Current projects include SALEM, Built For This (book by Lauren Gunderson), WIDOWS (book by Matthew Greene), Pride & Prejudice: A New Musical (book by Lauren Gunderson, commissioned by Broadway Licensing/Concord Theatricals), and Revival, as well as several new projects early in development. Kira is also the creator and founder of The Pop Collective (with 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 at the Shubert Artistic Circle Fellowship, Playwrights Horizons, The Lucille Lortel Theater, ASCAP Musical Theater Workshop, The Orchard Project, NAMT, Nashville Repertory Theater, Circle in the Square Theatre, The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts New York Stage & Film, Olney Theater Center, Goodspeed, Village Theatre, New World Stages, Fault Line Theatre, New York Musical Festival (RIP), New York Theatre Barn, University of Michigan, University of Southern California, University of Gothenburg (Sweden), and 54 Below. Commissions include: Pride & Prejudice (w/ book by Lauren Gunderson), for Concord Theatricals/Broadway Licensing. Awards include: ASCAP Foundation Cole Porter Award (*first woman to ever win), Vanguard Arts Award (Olney Theater Center, Built For This), NAMT Frank Young Fund Award, ASCAP Plus Award, Diderot AiR Grant (Chateau Orquevaux, Revival). Residencies include: Vineyard Arts Project, The BringAbout (Brooklyn), Chateau d’Orquevaux in Champagne, France (2x). Finalist: The Kleban Prize, Princess Grace, American Music Theater Project at Northwestern (SALEM (2x), & Built For This), The Orchard Project Performance Lab (SALEM, 2x, received the following year for Built For This), Lucille Lortel 121 Project (SALEM, won the next year for Built For This), Vanguard Arts Award (WIDOWS (2x), won for Built For This), NAMT (WIDOWS), Rhinebeck Writers Retreat (3x) (SALEM; Built For This (2x)), Newport NewWorks Musical Theater Festival (2026; Built For This), The Civilians’ R&D Group (Built for This), New Dramatists Composer-Librettist Studio, Fault Line Theatre “Irons in the Fire” (Built For This; SALEM). Semifinalist: O’Neill National Music Theatre Conference (2x) (Built For This & WIDOWS,). NAMT Recommended Musicals (Built For This & WIDOWS).
In TV/Film, Kira has worked as a songwriter, music producer, arranger/orchestrator, and vocalist for Sesame Street & PBS Kids.
Kira is also working on a full-length screenplay about rabid teenage girls and the obsessive, cult-like chokehold of female pop star fandom.
A Bay Area, East Coast, & Nashville native, she now 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.