Likes: Baking sourdough bread, cooking, outdoors, wheels
Dislikes: Long lines, hot comforters, debt
Favorite Food: Pad Thai
Favorite Quote:”Cynics do not contribute, skeptics do not create, doubters do not achieve.” – Gordon B. Hinckley, President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Kamalu is a composer for film and theater. In 2016 Kamalu received a Student Emmy at the College Television Awards for his music in the animated film Papa. His music and lyrics for the musical theater show Single Wide won the 2015 Blanche and Irving Laurie Musical Theater Award from the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival. Single Wide was produced in 2015 in NYC as a NYMF finalist where it received excellent reviews, and was further developed by the Florida Theatrical Association in 2017. In 2019 Kamalu was invited to be a Playwright Observer at The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center.