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Songwriting for Animation
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Songwriting for Animation
APPLICATION GROUP 3
Applications Open:
February 5, 2026
THIS CIRCLE IS PERFECT FOR
Composers who want to improve their songwriting!
WHAT TO EXPECT
- Collaboration
- Music business know-how
- Music production
- Songwriting to brief
WHAT NOT TO EXPECT
- Writing a song and not producing it
- Writing whatever you want while ignoring the brief guidelines
- Being uncollaborative and unkind
Qualification Criteria
Entry Level (1-2 yrs of experience)
Early Career (3-5 yrs of experience)
Day / Time
Times Per Month: Weekly
Day / Time: Monday 7pm
Timezone: PST
* You must meet the qualification criteria AND be able to attend the posted day/time of the circle (please note the timezone posted)
CIRCLE DESCRIPTION
Let’s deep dive into songwriting for animation! We’ll be listening to and analyzing some of our favorite songs while writing to brief for a variety of age ranges and genres, dissecting what makes the music work from both a creative and studio perspective.
Guest speakers will include industry friends with music business know-how, composers, songwriters, and producers. There will be collaboration opportunities, so come prepared to work together!
If you’re a songwriter or composer that’s never written for animation that is more than okay! But this is not a circle for beginners – you must have a music portfolio to submit. Must be able to produce rough remos in your DAW and/or collaborate with a producer for briefs, then find singers if you don’t sing.
Looking forward to seeing you in this circle! 🙂
ADDITIONAL Application Requirements
Please submit the following as part of your Application Profile:
*(AFTER you click to apply, you must go into your member profile and complete the member-specific portion; these requirements should be submitted through that profile):
- Please submit a portfolio of your music and/or songwriting
- A personal statement as to why this circle would benefit your professional goals.
Circle Leader
Makena Metz
Makena Metz is a Writer & Songwriter for the Page, Screen, and Stage. She has an MFA in Creative Writing and MA in English from Chapman University. Makena is a proud member of The Dramatist Guild, ASCAP, Women in Animation, Maestra Music, the AWFC, SONA, RAMPD, and the SCL.
This year Makena’s debut musical comedy EP “Songs For My Therapist” began dropping tracks (check them out on all streaming platforms)! In 2024, she was selected for the Society of Composers & Lyricists LA based music mentorship program. In the last few years, Makena participated in the Johnny Mercer Foundation Songwriting Intensive and the Paramount/MTV Entertainment Group First Time Composers Program. Her songs have been featured on the Emmy winning Disney+ show Hamster & Gretel and she recently wrote music for Mickey Mouse Fun House.
Makena’s television and feature work has made the Coverfly Red List and placed in several competitions. Her prose and poetry have been published with Wordgathering, PearTree Press, The Clockhouse Review, For Page and Screen, Havik, The Bitchin’ Kitsch, Wishbone Words, Strange Horizons, and more. Her plays and musicals have been produced with The Lincoln Center, The Kennedy Center, Roundabout Theatre Company, The Braid Theatre Company, Queens Theatre, Giant Wolf Theatre Company, the Navigators Theatre company, and more. Makena’s theatrical work has been published and produced with Musical Theater Today Magazine, Queen’s Theatre’s “Disability Forward” Anthology, Next Stage Press’s “WE:US Monologues for the Gender Minority” Anthology, and produced with The Lincoln Center’s ADA30 Celebration, Roundabout Theatre Company, The Kennedy Center Playwright’s Intensive, and many others.
Makena is an alum of Sam Carner’s Musical Creators Institute Program and New Musical Inc’s CORE Curriculum for Musical Theatre Writing. Find her work @makenametz on social media, and check out makenametz.com
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Current Title: Freelance Writer & Songwriter
Studio / Employer: Storyteller Media
LinkedIn Profile: LINK
