Jill Wisoff is an American filmmaker, performer and film composer best known for original music and songs in Welcome to the Dollhouse, Todd Solondz's critically acclaimed 1996 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize winner.

Biography

Born in Queens, New York, her training in composition began while a student in the Manhattan School of Music Preparatory Division and later at Bennington College under Vivian Fine and Henry Brant. She directed, composed music and performed in stock and off-off Broadway. As a musician, she performed as lead guitarist for the all-girl reggae band, Steppin' Razor, produced by Chris Spedding, who later produced her own band, The Con Artists, some songs of which are included in the Welcome to the Dollhouse soundtrack. She later toured as bassist in Europe and the U.S. for the legendary Johnny Thunders as a member of his last band, The Oddballs. Between tours, she completed reshoots co-starring as Sharon opposite Todd Solondz's Ira in his lesser known first feature film, Fear, Anxiety & Depression, theatrically released in 1989 through the Samuel Goldwyn Company, for which she was cited for her "comic flair" in Caryn James' review in The New York Times. She made her directorial debut with the feature comedy film, Creating Karma, theatrically released in 2009. Her documentary produced with Harris Salomon, The Day After, she completed in 2010 with footage she shot at Ground Zero on September 12, 2001. Following a screening series by New York Women in Film and Television called Life in the Aftermath of 9/11, it was invited to be included in the memorial library collection of the naval ship USS New York, and the archives of the Tribute WTC Visitor Center.