Justin Marshall Elias

Justin Marshall Elias is an actor and composer based in Hollywood California As an actor Elias has performed in feature and short films commercials webisodes and has received critical acclaim for his work on stage An awardwinning composer Elias has created music and provided sound design for feature and short films documentaries television commercials and corporate multimedia projects as well as releasing several ambient music albums under the artist name Dendroid Elias was born in Palo Alto California and resided in nearby Fremont At age eight he relocated with his parents and older sister Jessica to Eagle Idaho An actor from the earliest age he can recall Elias loved films particularly the scifi genre and loved to act out and improvise scenes as well as develop characters This led to making experimental films in middle and high school in which he also acted Elias began exploring his interest in music while in middle school He joined the marching band in high school playing the alto saxophone Toward the end of high school Elias began working with a digital audio workstation called FL Studio formerly known as FruityLoops that featured a graphical user interface based on a patternbased music sequencer By the time he was a senior in high school Elias had technically mastered professional broadcasting and film making software and hardware He was hired as a technical director by an audio visual and presentation technology services and solutions company Elias considers Electronica his gateway into the world of music creation After graduating high school Elias began his undergraduate study at Boise State University His ongoing fascination of movies led him to transfer his sophomore year to Montana State University ranked in the top five film schools in the nation to pursue filmmaking Elias scored many student films and garnered several awards and nominations for film composition and sound design During his senior year Elias scored four short and feature films including composing the original score for the short film Waters Handle Music which won the Medallion Award at the 2009 Washougal International Film Festival After graduating MSU he briefly returned to Idaho and was cast as Garry Lejeune in the play Noises Off at the StageCoach Theatre for which he won the 2011 Masque Award for Best Actor During the plays run he was cast for two television commercials Upon arriving in LA in 2010 Elias continued to pursue his dualtrack goals of composing and acting and also began working on the production side of the industry for production companies including the Syfy Channel Jim Henson and the Food Network Having become established at creating emotionally engaging film scores Elias has garnered the attention of producers and directors and become a soughtafter composer exhibiting a wide stylistic range and command of electronic composition Adding to his appeal is Elias ability to work in creative partnership with a films director when composing to picture