STEPHEN SPIES

About Stephen

Stephen Spies is an Emmy Award-winning composer for film, animation, TV and video games who has scored projects for Netflix, Hulu, Apple TV and Prime Video. Along with co-composer Scot Stafford, he won an Emmy for his music on the Netflix show Lost Ollie featuring Mary J Blige, Gina Rodriguez, Jake Johnson and Jonathan Groff. With Pollen Music Group, he scored the Netflix hit children’s TV show, Trash Truck, a wholesome animation series about a boy whose best friend in the world is a trash truck. Stephen also scored the CPJ International Press Freedom Awards documentary hosted by Meryl Streep and featuring Samantha Bee, Lester Holt, Rosamund Pike, Amal Clooney and many others fighting to protect journalists. Other credits of his include additional composition on the recent Netflix animation film Ultraman: Rising which was in the top 10 worldwide most watched movies on Netflix for 2 weeks straight, and over 50 IMDB credits including documentaries, virtual reality projects and much more. He has also scored numerous virtual reality games for Meta Quest and Apple Vision Pro.

Stephen started on violin at the age of 5 playing Irish and Appalachian folk tunes, Klezmer music, and folk songs from all across South America. His love for film music grew when his middle school music composition teacher, Molly Axtmann, had him improvise, compose and perform music for silent films at a local silent film museum. Stephen holds a BA in Music Composition from UCLA (University of California Los Angeles). He now lives in Redondo Beach, California with his wife Kate Spies, scoring full time from his home studio. He’s recorded his music with orchestras in Los Angeles, London and Budapest. In his spare time, he plays guitar and sings with his folk-rock band, Hello Noon and volunteers as a songwriting instructor at “My Friend’s Place,” a resource center for homeless youth in Los Angeles.