Ed Smart, winner of the Telly and Accolade Awards, is enjoying a diverse career as a film/television/web composer, with credits ranging from inspirational to intriguing to zany, including 250+ episodes of broadcast television.Current and recent scoring projects: FANTOMWORKS (Discovery/Motortrend), LONG ROAD TO MONTEREY (Discovery/Motortrend), A HAUNTING (Discovery), IESODO (Capitol), etc. Indie films GUN AND A HOTEL BIBLE (Winner, Best Score, L.A. Live Filmfest) and documentary SALT AND LIGHT (Zing Productions). Television scoring credits also include primetime series on HBO, Travel Channel, OWN, A&E, CBS, TLC, Discovery, Nat Geo, etc. Feature scores include Denzel Washington’s Oscar-nominated and Peabody-winning doc HANK AARON: CHASING THE DREAM (Mike Tollin,dir.), Shaquille O’Neal’s SPORTS THEATER, and BLUETOPIA: THE LA DODGERS MOVIE (Tim Marx,dir.).Comedy television scores include 7 seasons of ARLI$$, one of HBO’s longest running comedies, and ASSUME THE POSITION WITH MR. WUHL (HBO, D.A. Pennebaker, prod.), both resulting from a long-time collaboration with Emmy award-winner Robert Wuhl, for whom he composed the successful off-Broadway production “Hit Lit”Ed’s orchestrations include AMERICAN IDOL (FOX), for which Ed was also a member of the original on-air house band, + Beyoncé, Jewel, Angie Stone, etc. Additional composing credits include the HARPO SOUNDS library (Oprah, Dr.Oz, Nate Berkus) and the short film A TEMP FOR ALL SEASONS, for which Ed was awarded Best Score from the international 168 HOUR FILM FESTIVAL.Ed’s work as a saxophonist and keyboardist has taken him around the globe with many Grammy winners, and he has also contributed talent to causes close to his heart, as musical director for the Literacy In Media Awards and scoring THE LONG BLACK LINE (MC3), preserving the history of African-American rural Texas. Currently rooted as Director of Music Ministries at Westminster Presbyterian Church of Westlake Village, he is a published composer of sacred choral music (Theodore Presser), a producer for Fred Bock Music, President of the Arts Council of the Conejo Valley, and serves as a music leader in churches around Southern California.