Tangelene Bolton

Composer

Mar 19

Written By Arbel Bedak

Featured Credits

Disney Princess: Create Your World

For Our Children

Nora From Queens Season 3

Highlights Reel

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Credits

Disney Princess: Create Your World (2024)
Disney | Brand Campaign
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
EPs: Francis Lawrence, Steven Knight
composer, additional music
All Rise (2020-)
CBS | Series
EP: Greg Spottiswood
composer, additional music
#EmbraceAmbition PSA with Mindy Kaling (2020)
Tory Burch Foundation & Warner Bros. Animation | PSA
Dir. Lynn Wang
Short Circuit: “Just A Thought” S1 Ep. 4 (2020)
Disney+ | Animated Series
Dir. Brian Menz
Shimmer and Shine (2018-2019)
Nickelodeon/Nick Jr. | Animated Series
EP: Farnaz Esnaashari
composer, additional music
Brainchild (2018)
Netflix | Series
EP: Pharrell Williams
composer, additional music
60 Days In (2017-2018)
A&E | Series
EPs: Gregory Henry, Kimberly Woodard, Jeff Grogan
composer, additional music
Nordstrom: The Nordy Club (2018)
Nordstrom | Commercial
AirAsia – Malaysia Day (2018)
Commercial
Dir. 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
Dir. Tucker Barrie
CollegeHumor Originals: How Facebook Is Like Your Desperate Ex (2016)
CollegeHumor | TV Episode
Dir. Tim Wilkime
For Our Children (2024)
ARRAY | Feature Documentary
Dir. Débora Souza Silva
Premiere, 2022 San Francisco Int’l Film Festival
Freaky Tales (2024)
MACRO | Feature
Dir. Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck
composer, additional music
*Premiere, 2024 Sundance Film Festival
The Van (2023)
Short
Dir. Bernard Badion
Premiere, 2023 LA Asian Pacific Film Festival, CAAMFEST
An American Zealot (2021)
Syndicado Film Sales | Feature
Dir. James Mackenzie
Let’s Be Tigers (2021)
Walt Disney Studios | Short
Dir. 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
Dir. Alex Lopez
Stories In Place: June Jung Tattoo Studio (2020)
Vimeo | Documentary
Dir. Yoko Okumura
The Sky (2020)
Short
Dir. Matt Sears
Just A Thought (2019)
Walt Disney Animation Studios | Animated Short
Dir. Brian Menz
Basic Witch (2019)
Shudder | Short
Dir. Yoko Okumura
No Escape Room (2018)
Syfy | Feature
Dir. Alex Merkin
composer, additional music
House of the Witch (2017)
Syfy | Feature
Dir. Alex Merkin
composer, additional music
Balik (To Return) (2017)
Short
Dir. Cara Lawson | DP: Mark Jeevaratnam
Altitude (2017)
Lionsgate | Feature
Dir. Alex Merkin
composer, additional music
Girlfriend’s Day (2017)
Netflix | Feature
EP: Ian Bricke
technical score engineer
Jem and the Holograms (2015)
Universal Pictures | Feature
Dir. Jon M. Chu
composer, additional music
I Am Joe (2015)
Indie Rights | Feature
Dir. Pedro Baron
A Killer Serve (2015)
Feature
Dir. Andrew Pilkington
Chappie (2015)
Columbia Pictures | Feature
Dir. 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’ 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.

Most recently Tangelene had the incredible opportunity to write additional music for Raphael Saadiq on Freaky Tales, which premiered at Sundance on January 18th, 2024, staring Pedro Pascal, Jay Ellis, Normani, Dominique Thorne, Ben Mendelsohn, Angus Cloud and directed by Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden.

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.