Harry Mann has performed as a musician, actor, dancer and performance artist. He has performed and collaborated with music artists Cecil Taylor, Jackie Byard and Ray Charles; theater innovators Sam Shephard, Joseph Chaikin and Ann Bogart; puppeteers Ralph Lee and Janie Geiser, and choreographers Yoshiko Chuma, Eva Dean and Anne Hammel.  He has worked with Dance Theater of Toronto, Trinity Rep (Providence, R.I.) and the Yale Repertory Company.

Harry has composed music for and performed in many modern dance and Off Broadway shows in New York, as well as in Canada, Europe and South America and throughout the United States. These works include three Obie Award-winning productions: Lucy Cabrol (The Talking Band), Tourists and Refugees (Joseph Chaikin) and No Plays No Poetry (Ann Bogart).

He composed a mini opera for The Talking Band’s four-part work “Black Milk Quartet,” and conceived, composed and performed “Fake Book,” a play with text by Jim Neu at several downtown venues in New York City from 1991 to 1997. He has been part of the jazz duo “Gorilla My Love” with Neal Kirkwood since the 1970’s. He has worked with the art affiliates Guggenheim Museum, Marquis Studios’ Project Art and Hospital Audiences Inc.

He has been the recipient of grants including Meet the Composer and Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust.