Tangelene Bolton

Tangelene Bolton

she/her

composer

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Credits

  • Awkwafina is Nora from Queens (2023)
    Comedy Central | Series
    EPs: Awkwafina, Teresa Hsiao

    Unseen (2023)
    Blumhouse TV | TV Movie
    Dir. Yoko Okumura

    Warrior Nun (2022) Season 2
    Netflix | Series
    EP: Simon Barry

    Foundation (2021)
    Apple TV+ | Series
    EP: David S. Goyer
    Composer, additional music

    Motherland: Fort Salem | After The Storm (2021)
    Freeform | After Show Series

    SEE (2021)
    Apple TV+ | Series
    EP: Francis Lawrence, Steven Knight
    Composer, additional music

    All Rise (2020-present)
    CBS | Series
    Executive Producer: Greg Spottiswood
    Composer: Additional Music

    #EmbraceAmbition PSA with Mindy Kaling (2020)
    Tory Burch Foundation & Warner Bros. Animation | PSA
    Director: Lynn Wang

    Short Circuit: “Just A Thought” S1 Ep. 4 (2020)
    Disney+ | Animated Series
    Director: Brian Menz

    Shimmer and Shine (2018-2019)
    Nickelodeon/Nick Jr. | Animated Series
    Executive Producer: Farnaz Esnaashari
    Composer: Additional Music 

    Brainchild (2018)
    Netflix | Series
    Executive Producer: Pharrell Williams
    Composer: Additional Music

    60 Days In (2017-2018)
    A&E | Series
    Executive Producers: Gregory Henry, Kimberly Woodard, Jeff Grogan
    Composer: Additional Music

    Nordstrom: The Nordy Club (2018) Nordstrom | Commercial

    AirAsia – Malaysia Day (2018)
    Commercial
    Director: Ian Lin

    The Only Living Boy in New York (2017) Amazon Studios | Trailer
    Composer: Additional Music

    I’m A Nickelodeon Kid (2016)
    Nickelodeon Animation | Commercial
    Director: Tucker Barrie

    CollegeHumor Originals: How Facebook Is 

    Like Your Desperate Ex (2016)
    CollegeHumor | TV Episode
    Director: Tim Wilkime

  • The Van (2023)
    Short
    Dir. Bernard Badion
    Premiere, 2023 LA Asian Pacific Film Festival, CAAMFEST

    Black Mothers Love & Resist (2022)
    Feature Documentary
    Dir. Débora Souza Silva
    Premiere, 2022 San Francisco Int’l Film Festival

    An American Zealot (2021)
    Syndicado Film Sales | Feature
    Director: James Mackenzie

    Let’s Be Tigers (2021)
    Walt Disney Studios | Short
    Director: Stefanie Abel Horowitz

    No Dogs (2021) Short
    Dir. Randal Kamradt
    Premiere, 2021 LA Asian Pacific Film Festival

    Eddy Ordinary Day (2020)
    Sundance Film Music In Animation Intensive Animated Short
    Director: Alex Lopez

    Stories In Place: June Jung Tattoo Studio (2020)
    Vimeo | Documentary
    Director: Yoko Okumura

    The Sky (2020) Short
    Director: Matt Sears

    Just A Thought (2019)
    Walt Disney Animation Studios | Animated Short
    Director: Brian Menz

    Basic Witch (2019)
    Shudder | Short
    Director: Yoko Okumura

    No Escape Room (2018)
    Syfy | Feature
    Director: Alex Merkin
    Composer: Additional Music

    House of the Witch (2017)
    Syfy | Feature
    Director: Alex Merkin
    Composer: Additional Music

    Balik (To Return) (2017)
    Short
    Director: Cara Lawson | DP: Mark Jeevaratnam

    Altitude (2017)
    Lionsgate | Feature
    Director: Alex Merkin
    Composer: Additional Music

    Girlfriend’s Day (2017)
    Netflix | Feature
    Executive Producer: Ian Bricke
    Technical Score Engineer

    Jem and the Holograms (2015)
    Universal Pictures | Feature
    Director: Jon M. Chu
    Composer: Additional Music

    I Am Joe (2015)
    Indie Rights | Feature
    Director: Pedro Baron

    A Killer Serve (2015)
    Feature
    Director: Andrew Pilkington

    Chappie (2015)
    Columbia Pictures | Feature
    Director: Neill Blomkamp
    Special thanks (Music Department)

  • Marvel’s Avengers (2020)
    Square Enix
    Developer: Crystal Dynamics
    Technical Score Engineer, Additional Drum Programing

    Rise of the Tomb Raider (2015)
    Square Enix
    Developer: Crystal Dynamics
    Technical Score Engineer

Bio


Tangelene Bolton (she/her) is a Filipina-American film, TV, and media composer based in Los Angeles, CA. A Berklee College of Music Film Scoring graduate and a 2020 Sundance Composer Fellow, Tangelene possesses a distinct music style that is a mashup of neoclassical, electronic, folk, and jazz. She boldly turns traditional and conventional sounds into exciting and new territories.

Having got her start working for A-list composers such as Hans Zimmer (The Lion King, Gladiator, The Dark Knight, Interstellar), Henry Jackman (X-Men, Captain America), and Bobby Tahouri (Game of Thrones, Iron Man), Tangelene is known for her scores from Netflix’s original series Warrior Nun (Season 2), created and executive produced by Simon Barry (Continuum, Bad Blood, Ghost Wars, Van Helsing), as well as Blumhouse’s thriller film Unseen, directed by Yoko Okumura. She also composed the music for Disney+’s Let’s Be Tigers and Walt Disney Animation Studios’ Just a Thought, which was an official selection at the 2019 Annecy International Animation Film Festival.

Most recently Tangelene had the opportunity to score Season 3 of Comedy Central’s Awkwafina is Nora from Queens, created by Awkwafina and Teresa Hsiao. Starring Awkwafina, BD Wong, Lori Tan Chinn, and Bowen Yang, the comedy is inspired by Awkwafina’s real life growing up in Queens, NY.

Past additional music/technical score engineering credits include Apple TV’s SEE starring Jason Momoa, CBS’s legal drama show All Rise, Nickelodeon’s hit animation show Shimmer and Shine, Crystal Dynamics’ Marvels Avengers game, and Crystal Dynamics/Square Enix’s Rise of the Tomb Raider game.

Tangelene has also performed and conducted world premieres of her scores at The Wiltern with the  Hollywood Chamber Orchestra for The Future is Female: A Concert For Women In Film. Moreover, her scores have been conducted and recorded at studios of the highest professional caliber, including the historic Fox Newman Scoring Stage and Capitol Records

Always on the cusp of the next innovative idea, Tangelene loves deep and thought-provoking collaborations that push the envelope in storytelling and transforms the culture around us.

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