BIO

Stephanie Kowal is a Canadian film composer based in Los Angeles. She came to Los Angeles when she attended the renowned Scoring For Motion Pictures And Television Program at the University of Southern California. Since graduating, Stephanie has been actively involved in both the Canadian and American film industries; she was the recipient of the SOCAN Foundation award for Best Original Theme in 2018 and was simultaneously selected as one of eight winning composers for the Los Angeles Live Score Film Festival. In 2019 she was one of SOCAN’s “6 Picks for 2020” featuring composers to watch out for in 2020 as well as the recipient of the “Best Short Score” award at the Halloween Indie film Festival in 2021. She has done additional writing for composers Tony Morales and Brad Breeck for networks such as Cartoon Network, Disney Junior, PBS and Amazon and in 2020, Stephanie composed the score for the first original Amazon Kids+ program, ‘Super Spy Ryan’. In 2022, she made her festival debut at the SXSW Film Festival as the composer for the multi-award winning documentary ‘Bad Axe’ which has most recently made the shortlist for the 95th Academy Awards.