Chris Gerolmo is - with Steven Bochco - the creator and executive producer of FX Network's OVER THERE, as well as the head writer on the series.

He also wrote and directed the pilot and wrote, sings, and plays the guitar on the title song.


If you like the title song, find out more about Chris' music on The Album page in this website, or click on this links to download songs or to buy the album I'M YOUR DADDY.

Chris grew up in New York city in a show-business family of theatrical producers, writers and actors. He played a 12 year old James Bond in a national toy commercial, and sang two solos a night in THE KING AND I in Summer Stock.

But it was when he first saw Jimi Hendrix at the age of 13 that he decided that night that he wanted to be an artist.




By the time he was at Harvard, he was a habitual writer.

Then he discovered the film-making program and studied with the great Yugoslav filmmaker, Dusan Makavejev.

A year after he graduated, he was asked to stay and teach the first year filmmaking course there, which he did for 3 years.

At which point, having decided he wanted to be a filmmaker, he thought he'd better write his way into a shot. So he taught himself to write screenplays.

In 1988, his original screenplay MISSISSIPPI BURNING was made, earning 7 Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture.

Vincent Canby called Chris' "an original American voice."



In 1992, he wrote and directed THE WITNESS, a short for Showtime, which garnered 3 Cable Ace Award nominations, including Best Writing and Best Directing.

In 1995, he wrote and directed CITIZEN X for HBO, which was nominated for 7 Emmys, including Best Writing, Best Directing, and Best Picture, as well as 6 Cable Ace Awards, including Best Writing and Best Directing, and winning Best Picture. Chris also won a Writers Guild Award, and an Edgar Alan Poe Award from the Mystery Writers of America.

In 2001, Chris wrote THE KING INCORPORATED for Steven Soderbergh and Laura Bickford, to which he remains attached to direct.

In 2004, Steven Bochco (Chris has good luck with guys named Steven) asked him to do a series based on the on-going war in Iraq with him. In Chris' words, "When Steven Bochco asks you to write a series for him, you drop everything else you're doing, and say Yes."

Chris lives in Brentwood with his four kids and his beautiful wife, Joan, who's a Co-Producer on the series, OVER THERE.

In his spare time, he made his first album,
I'M YOUR DADDY.

Find out more about it on The Album page on this website.

ABOUT THE SHOW

Chris Gerolmo writes:
"I'll always be grateful to John Landgraf of FX for having had the bold
idea to do a show about the war, because making the pilot of OVER THERE was about as much fun as I've ever had.
Chris Gerolmo directing the Pilot of Over There
"From Sunday mornings at the office planning shots with ASC Award-nominated Director of Photography Kramer Morgenthau to working in the editing room weeks later with my good friend, two-time Academy Award-nominated editor William Goldenberg, this job was a pleasure.
"And recording the song with Emmy Award and Grammy winning Mike Post was an absolute blast. (For more about that, go to our Title Song page. For downloads or to purchase the album I'M YOUR DADDY, click here.)

"And what's more, this was a remarkably lucky show, too. The stars were shining on this one. Literally.

"It rained in southern California for three weeks before we started shooting, and for a week after we finished.
"We had one rain day in our shooting schedule (meaning we could afford to be rained out once, with cover sets to retreat to) and in the fifteen days we shot, it rained exactly once.
Chris Gerolmo directing the pilot of Over There

And then there was the one astounding coincidence that made us decide that the gods were smiling on us.

But I can't tell you about that unless you've already seen the pilot.

"Let's put it this way; the other one is the guy getting blown in half.

Anyway, I loved it.

I couldn't be more grateful to Steven Bochco for giving me the chance."

IM YOUR DADDY THE ALBUM

THE ALBUM

Chris Gerolmos debut album answers the age-old question,
Whos your daddy?

IM YOUR DADDY.

What else would a man with four kids call his first record?

Its a collection of 12 original songs.

Its roots rock and roll in the tradition of the early Stones and Wilco (Chris put two Wilco songs in the pilot of his new show. Hes a big fan.)

The Album, I'm Your Daddy

Its passionate songwriting in the tradition of Bruce Springsteen and Lyle Lovett.

Its Americana with a demented feel.

The songs are about love and war and sex and pain. Theres one about the way women smell and another about getting shot in the chest.

Chris Gerlomo


You can listen to the songs and buy the record here.

The CD features Chris on vocals and acoustic and electric guitars (as well as on acoustic bass guitar on one track).

Randy Gordon of LEONARDS BULGE and STEP ONE is on drums, and the producer Marc Doten (CARLOS GUITARLOS) is on electric and upright bass.

It also features Mike Tempo on percussion, Krister Axel on Hammond B-3, the great Jimmy Z on harmonica, as well as the great Ken Joseph of THE PROMISE on piano.

It also features appearances by David Baron on keyboards and Ro Rowan on cello (both also of STEP ONE), and by Dylan Charboneau on synthesizer.

It was produced by Marc Doten in his fathers garage in Tarzana on a budget that wouldnt cover the bar bill at the opening night party for OVER THERE.

And although the shows Main Title Theme was also written and performed by Chris Gerolmo, its not on the album. Fox TV owns that.

But if you like it, chances are youll like some of the songs that are on the album, too.

Check out one of the tunes right now and see...

OVER THERE THEME SONG

THE TITLE SONG

The title song for the show OVER THERE was written by Chris Gerolmo two years before the show was conceived.

In fact, it was well into the process or working out the storyline for the pilot before Chris asked Steven Bochco if he was willing to call the show OVER THERE.
Chris Gerolmo

When he said yes, Chris smiled and told him "I have a song we may be able to use. I want to sing it, too."

Steven was amused. He was tolerant of the idea that Chris wanted to sing songs in the show. He figured if Mike Post - the dean of American television music, who had agreed to compose the score- would go along with the idea, then he would too.

Which set up quite a first meeting between Chris and Mike Post. There was a lot riding on that encounter; whether or not Chris would get his song, and whether or not he'd get a chance to sing it, too.

**If you like the way it turned out and would like to hear other songs by Chris Gerolmo, check out The Album page on this website, or go to this link.**

In his gorgeous studio in Burbank, Mike Post heard a demo of the song and loved it.

Then he heard that Chris wanted to sing it, and he blanched.

He reminded Chris that a lot of people had a lot riding on this show. Chris responded that he'd never hurt his own show in any way. Mike told him in that case he should think about getting a great singer to sing his song. Maybe Michael McDonald or Keb Mo.

It looked like the answer was No.

Until Chris finally just flat out asked Mike for his help. "Please. Let's just try it. If it doesn't work out, we'll all know. We'll hear it." At that, Mike blinked, then said, "Okay, man. You're on."

Thereafter Mike threw himself into producing the track with a vengeance. He recorded Chris' acoustic guitar and voice so brilliantly that even he started to think it might work out.

At which point he decided to go ahead bring in some of the best studio musicians in the country.

He asked his friend John "JR" Robinson- arguably the most-recorded drummer in rock and roll- to come in play the drums. John kicks ass on the song.
He asked session veteran George Doering to come and play electric guitar. The day he came, Chris brought in his own Fuzz Factory*, a wild fuzz pedal designed by Zachary Vex, and asked George to run his guitar through it. George did so, to amazing effect.

Including the last note of the play-out, which was an unplanned result of George trying to end his solo by turning down his guitar's volume knob, not knowing what it would do to the Fuzz Factory*.

Finally, Mike Post brought in Amy Keyes (who sings on the road with Phil Collins) and Maxanne Lewis, a couple of pros who may sing together better than any other pair of singers in the country. Their contribution to the final track is immeasurable. Amy's high singing in the end of the song is hair-raising.

And we were done.

Again, if you like the way the song turned out, check out The Album page on this website, or go to this link.

* Chris's Fuzz Factory is one of the ten pedals that Zachary Vex had sitting on workbench waiting to be painted on September 10 th , 2001. When the buildings came down on 9/11, he was moved to paint them all in the colors of the flag, date them and write on the bottom "I love NY." When this one, ..8, came on sale on eBay two years later,
Chris bought it.

Emmy Nomination - Over There
FX Network 20th Century Fox Television and Steven Bochco Productions

Chris Gerolmo,
Main Title Theme Written and Performed by

Available Exclusively On iTunes

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Outstanding Main Title Theme Music

!! Over There FX Network 20th Century Fox Television !!
!! and Steven Bochco Productions !!
!! Chris Gerolmo, Main Title Theme Written and Performed by !!

other nominee's below

Get Ed Toon Disney Jetix Animation Concepts
Amin Bhatia, Main Title Written and Performed by
Ari Posner, Main Title Written and Performed by

Masters Of Horror Showtime IDT Entertainment, Nice
Guy Productions, Industry Entertainment
Edward Shearmur, Main Title Music by

Prison Break FOX Original Film, Adelstein, Parouse in
association with 20th Century Fox Television
Ramin Djawadi, Composer

Rome HBO HBO Entertainment in association with the
BBC
Jeff Beal, Composer

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