ABOUT
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 wrote additional music for Sundance’s 2024 opening film Freaky Tales, an original drama film directed by Captain Marvel filmmakers Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, scored by Raphael Saadiq. Starring Pedro Pascal, Ben Mendelsohn and Jay Ellis, the film weaves four narratives set in 1987 Oakland, California, wrapped up in the nostalgia of growing up in the Bay Area amidst real historical events and at real locations, an homage to the punk, hip-hop, and grunge scenes that made up the zeitgeist of the California 80’s.
Tangelene also recently composed the original score for 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’ Marvel’s 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.
CREDITS
TELEVISION/DIGITAL (SELECT)
Awkwafina is Nora from Queens (2023)
Comedy Central | Series
EP: Awkwafina, Teresa Hsiao
Warrior Nun S2 (2022)
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
Launchpad Ep. 5 “Let’s Be Tigers”
(2021)
Walt Disney Pictures | Disney+
Dir: Stefanie Abel Horowitz
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
FILM (SELECT)
Freaky Tales (2024)
MACRO | Feature
Dir. Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck
Premiere, Sundance Film Festival 2024
Additional Music
Unseen (2023)
Blumhouse TV | TV Movie
Dir. Yoko Okumura
Black Mothers Love and Resist (2022)
Documentary Feature
Dir. Debora Silva
Premiere, San Fransisco International Film Festival
No Dogs (2021) upcoming
Short
Dir. Randal Kamradt
Premiere, 2021 LA Asian Pacific Film Festival
An American Zealot (2021)
Syndicado Film Sales | Feature
Director: James Mackenzie
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)
GAMES
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