BRITTANY ALLEN
BRITTANY ALLEN
composer/songwriter/actor
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Hello…

Brittany Allen is a multi-disciplinary artist, who on the heels of a successful career as an actor, is now emerging as one of the most exciting young female composers to watch. Her first score was for the critically acclaimed indie What Keeps You Alive (SXSW ’18) which was named a NYTimes Critic’s Pick, one of Rolling Stone’s Top Ten Horror Films of 2018, and hit the Top Ten films on Netflix. Allen’s score was released by Lakeshore Records. She followed that up with her “soul-tugging score” for Z, one of AMC Shudder’s most watched films of 2020. Allen went on to score two seasons of the CW / Netflix anthology Two Sentence Horror Stories. Most recently, she composed the score for Blumhouse’s Torn Hearts. She’s just wrapped scoring two episodes of the second season of American Horror Stories, (FX/Hulu) after scoring standout episode from season one, Feral.


Allen crafts moving, dark, melodic themes and fresh, edgy sounds, leaning deeply into the character’s emotional journey. As a songwriter, her proclivity to dark material meets her pop sensibility, and her songs have been featured on AMC’s Spiral and Still/Born, and Lifetime’s Amish Abduction. As an actor, Allen is an Emmy-Award winner, and was most recently celebrated for her iconic turn as Popclaw in Amazon’s The Boys. She will next be seen in the Netflix original from Dark Horse, Grendel. Allen studied musical theatre at Canada’s prestigious Sheridan College, and she draws on her years of study in that field when approaching telling stories through music. 

 

composer // songwriter // actor

Brittany Allen is a composer, known for her haunting, soul-tugging scores.

She is also an Emmy-winning actress and a songwriter.

 
 

talkin about…

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LA WEEKLY

“This feeling that everything we’ve ever known has come to a screeching halt, crumbling before us, and as much as we might long for the life we knew before, there is no going back now that we’re here,”

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CBC Q

How Brittany Allen Uses Sound And Music To Create Fear On Film.

Allen shares her approach to scoring and capturing fear in What Keeps You Alive.

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VULTURE

Alongside Colin Stetson of Hereditary, Ben Salisbury and Geoff Barrow of Annihilation, and Erik Friedlander of Thoroughbreds - Allen is interviewed here for Vulture for her work as composer of the film What Keeps You Alive. (IFC Midnight)

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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY

“I exist in the world through my art. That’s how I make sense of things.”

 

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“The fact that I come from acting, it feeds and informs my process as a composer,” she explains. “In preparing for a character, music and movement is a big part of my work in acting. It's, How does this feel in my body? And it's very intuitive and physical, and the prep work has always involved some connection to music.”

MUSIC

Listen to What Keeps You Alive (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) on Spotify. Brittany Allen · Album · 2018 · 24 songs.

Listen to Z (Original Score) on Spotify. Brittany Allen · Album · 2020 · 27 songs.

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I shot & edited this video the same way I wrote the track - alone, in my place, dancing w my demons! Stream/Buy "So Fucking Alone" HERE: https://smarturl.it/s9nvpr "So Fucking Alone" Written, produced, mixed by Brittany Allen Mastered by Shordeli (Bryan Shortelli)

SO FUCKING ALONE now available to stream/buy here: https://smarturl.it/s9nvpr Official Audio Video: https://youtu.be/OAxM6kLovGo BLOODLET (cover) Produced/performed/mixed by Brittany Allen Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/2Z2pHckuTP6cWln2scskz6?si=ugGGtpZaRFa0oourRTgiaA Based on the original "Bloodlet" by MUNROE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DKJqvBGNdQ https://open.spotify.com/track/4ImkdGqV3v16QJtnxROWTL?si=KYsCyjooSsGfwmyOktrR-A From the film WHAT KEEPS YOU ALIVE starring Hannah Emily Anderson, Brittany Audrey Allen.

"The Impossible" AUDREY Written by: Brittany AUDREY Allen Produced by: Blitz//Berlin, M. Lobel, A. Naranjo, B. Allen Video directed and edited by: Colin Minihan Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/3nUS2uevKxI5gkW5Qk946s iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-impossible-single/1297869542

i like to act too…