Steven Mark Kohn has worn many different creative hats. As a composer, he has written music for a number of award-winning children's films, including Frog and Toad Together, Uncle Elephant, Cousin Kevin and Morris Goes to School. He has also scored three ABC Weekend specials: Commander Toad in Space, and the Emmy-nominees Runaway Ralph and Ralph S. Mouse. He has composed commercial and industrial music for clients including Wheaties, Arby's, Volvo, M & M's, and others. His music can be heard nationally on NPR for the Sylvia Rimm show as well as the 35-volume Time-Warner audio book series "Health Journeys", which have sold over one million copies worldwide. His Hymn for String Orchestra (published by Carl Fischer) has been recorded by the San Jose Chamber Orchestra and his 27 Haiku and American Folk Set for voice and piano are published by Classical Vocal Repertoire. He has written incidental music and his opera Rite of Passage was produced at the Banff Centre and Opera Ora-Now in Toronto. An independent filmmaker with his brother Justin, he has written and directed several offbeat films, which have been screened at festivals around the world. He has created lyrics for the stage musicals The Quiltmaker's Gift (Phoenix Theatre) and The Tale of the Nutcracker (Opera San Jose), both with music by Craig Bohmler. His short story The Professor’s Diary was published in National Lampoon magazine. He currently serves on the faculty of the Cleveland Institute of Music as Director of the Electronic Music Studio.