Spectra Creative Agency Celebrates Pride Month 2025
As a queer-owned and run company, Spectra Creative Agency is proud to be a certified LGBT Business Enterprise® through the NGLCC and a member of the Los Angeles LGBTQ Chamber of Commerce. We value the importance of promoting visibility to underrepresented composers, music supervisors, and songwriters and are thrilled to celebrate this Pride Month by highlighting the LGBTQ+ talent on our roster and celebrating their wonderful accomplishments and musical talents. This year, more than ever, it is important for us to lift up queer voices and showcase our community’s contributions, impact, and importance while our mere existence is continually under attack.
We hope you enjoy exploring these wonderful talents and consider them for your next project!
Jake Monaco (he/him)
Jake’s recent credits include Nat Geo/Disney+’s Incredible Animal Journeys; Pixar’s series Cars on the Road as well as Paramount+’s Jerry and Marge Go Large. His musical fingerprints can be found on some of the biggest films of the past decade including Netflix’s Dumplin’; Fox’s action comedies Keeping Up With the Joneses and Let’s Be Cops; Fox/Searchlight’s comedy Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie; Lionsgate Films’ Think Like A Dog; Disney+’s Flora & Ulysses; and Tribeca Film’s Struck By Lightning, as well as animated series like Disney/Pixar’s Forky Asks A Question and Cars On The Road, Netflix/Dreamworks’ DinoTrux, and Apple TV+’s Eva The Owlett.
Geneviève Gros-Louis (she/her)
A proud member of the First Nations community from Wendake, Québec, Geneviève is an esteemed violinist, film composer, and producer, whose interdisciplinary work spans the film, music, and fashion industry. As a composer, Geneviève has crafted impactful scores for film and television from her studio, Wendat Records. Recent score work includes National Geographic's Life Below Zero: First Alaskans and Life Below Zero, as well as the feature documentary A Savage Art: The Life & Cartoons of Pat Oliphant, which premiered at the 2025 DC/DOX Film Festival and will be released in theaters by Magnolia Pictures on September 5, 2025.
Brad Oberhofer (he/him)
Brad is a composer, artist, singer-songwriter, and music producer from Brooklyn, NYC and Tacoma, WA, now based in Los Angeles. Brad has toured and performed at major festivals around the globe, on Late night TV, and in commercials with his band, Oberhofer. His recent work includes Group Therapy, which recently premiered at Tribeca 2024, and Hulu’s The Jewel Thief. His latest film, Bubble & Squeak, premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival in the US Dramatic Competition.
EmmoLei Sankofa (she/her)
EmmoLei is an American composer, producer, musician, and artist whose work spans music, visual media, and fine art. EmmoLei’s original music can be heard on Hulu’s indie comedy Three Ways, the Disney Launchpad short Project CC, and Hulu’s The Other Black Girl, which was nominated for an NAACP Image Award in 2024. Her latest feature, The Late Night Creep, premiered at the 2025 American Black Film Festival this month.
Stefan L. Smith (he/him)
Stefan has written music for concert halls, film, TV, video games, R&B, pop, EDM, as well as maintaining an extensive professional symphonic and recording performance career. He has served as principal (and/or acting principal) violist with the Hollywood Studio Symphony, Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, The Academy's Oscars Orchestra, and many others. The composer for Warner Bros. Animation’s Batman: The Doom That Came To Gotham and a winner of the 2022 Hollywood Music in Media Award for his score to the animated short “She Dreams At Sunrise”, Stefan bridges the gap between the classical and contemporary music world, doing so with skillful command of the orchestra’s breadth and artistry.
Dave Volpe (he/him)
Dave is a composer, vocalist, and comedic actor based in Los Angeles. Dave has scored for various film and TV series, including the popular fantasy fiction podcast series Carcerem. Most recently, Dave scored and co-wrote/co-produced original songs for the first-ever drag queen super hero animated feature Maxxie LaWow: Drag Super-Shero, which is now available to buy or rent on Prime Video. The soundtrack is now available to stream everywhere.
Emily Wells (she/her)
Forging a bridge between pop and chamber music, Emily is a polymathic composer, producer, and video artist who builds songs from deliberate strata of vocals, synths, drums, piano, string and wind instruments. She has written original music for film including the end credits song "Becomes the Color" for Park Chan-Wook’s Stoker (2013) and most recently scored the queer thriller Plainclothes, which premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival and will be released in theaters later this year by Magnolia Pictures. She also wrote and recorded an original song which is featured in the film’s end credits.
Abby Diamond (She/Her)
Abby is a powerhouse songwriter and record producer known for her musical contributions in Top 40 radio, film/TV, and advertising. Diamond got her start as an artist touring with Barenaked Ladies and being awarded Best New Writer at the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Diamond cut her teeth on music production working at original music houses for advertising in New York and afterhours toplining on dance records for labels like mau5trap, as well as writing Shoshanna’s virginity loss song “Spend the Night” in season one of HBO’s Girls. Most recently, Abby has co-written, produced, and performed on original songs for Nickelodeon’s popular characters SpongeBob SquarePants and Dora The Explorer.
Pakk Hui (he/him)
Pakk is a Los Angeles-based composer who is best known for his cinematic blend of skillfully crafted melodies and emotive soundscapes. He has contributed music to nearly 400 episodes of television (including Showtime’s American Gigolo and the latest season of Amazon's hit show Reacher) as well as over a couple dozens of blockbuster films (such as Furious 7 and Avengers: Age of Ultron). His most recent works include his award-winning scores to Dear Ernie and Roberta’s Rules. His debut feature film Sway (dir. Rooth Tang) was an official selection at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival. The short film Tsuyako (dir. Hikari) had won over 30 awards from festivals all around the world.
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Arbel Bedak (he/him)
Arbel is the owner and creative agent at Spectra Creative Agency, representing a diverse roster of composers, music supervisors, songwriters, and music producers. He is a multi-faceted music creative who has worked across many aspects of music in media over the past decade, from creative sync to publishing to composer representation. A creative at heart, Arbel holds a Bachelor’s degree in composition from UC Davis and is passionate about helping composers at all stages develop their careers, taking a hands-on, collaborative approach to working with artists. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Alliance For Women Film Composers.
