Composer
Trey Parker
American actor, animator and filmmaker (born 1969)
b. 1969
6 works in the index
- Born
- 1969
- Birthplace
- Conifer
- Citizenship / historical state
- United States
- Period (estimated from birth year)
- Contemporary
Biography
Randolph Severn "Trey" Parker III (born October 19, 1969) is an American animator, filmmaker, songwriter and actor.
Born in Conifer, Colorado, Parker studied film and Japanese at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he met his creative partner Matt Stone. As students, they made the independent film Cannibal! The Musical (1993). They found fame with the animated satire South Park (since 1997) and the feature South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999). Their satirical action film Team America: World Police (2004) stars a cast of marionettes. With Robert Lopez, they cowrote the musical The Book of Mormon, which premiered on Broadway to positive reviews.
Parker has received five Primetime Emmy Awards and a Peabody for South Park, four Tony Awards and a Grammy Award for The Book of Mormon and an Academy Award nomination for the song "Blame Canada" from South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, co-written with Marc Shaiman. In 2026, he was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame.
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Life and musical career
- Selected occupations
- screenwriter; television director; film director; actor; film producer; voice actor; animator; singer-songwriter; composer; singer; television actor; theatre director
- Career institutions / employers
- Comedy Central
- Recorded memberships
- Writers Guild of America West
- Instruments played
- voice
- Awards
- Peabody Awards; Annie Award; Laurence Olivier Awards; Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical; The Game Awards − Best Performance; Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program; Tony Award for Best Original Score; Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical
- Native languages
- English
- VIAF ID
- 39540432
- ISNI
- 0000000055141047
- GND ID
- 137024282
- Library of Congress ID
- no98126494
- MusicBrainz ID
- b8e4771f-6156-48cd-ab77-d10bc3fd50d9; bdd7d9a4-18f9-440a-a472-311ff4783828
Recorded in Wikidata. Affiliations may refer to earlier stages of the composer's career.
In this catalogue
- Common listed instruments
- Piano, Vocal, Guitar, Voice
- Genres represented
- Broadway, Pop, Rock
- Works with composition dates
- 0 of 6
These details describe the indexed sheet music, including arrangements.
Catalogue
Works
Years are composition dates where known. Instruments describe editions in our catalogue and may include arrangements. A dash means the detail is not recorded.
| Work | Year composed | Catalogue / opus | Key in title | Listed instruments | Genre | Editions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blame Canada | — | — | — | Guitar, Voice | — | 2 |
| Up There | — | — | — | Piano, Vocal | — | 1 |
| I Can Change | — | — | — | Piano, Vocal | — | 1 |
| Hello! | — | — | — | Piano, Vocal | Rock, Pop, Broadway | 1 |
| You and Me | — | — | — | Piano, Vocal | Rock, Pop, Broadway | 1 |
| I Believe | — | — | — | Piano, Vocal | Rock, Pop, Broadway | 1 |
Biographical record: Wikidata, matched on name and checked against dates held in the catalogue. The period label is an estimate from birth year. Authority record: VIAF 39540432. Portrait: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.