Kathryn Bostic

Kathryn Bostic is an American composer and artist known for her work on award-winning films, TV, and theater. In 2016, she became the first female African-American score composer to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and was the vice president of the Alliance for Women Film Composers from 2016 to 2018. Work Bostic has written scores and songs for film, television and stage, including award-winning films Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am and Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir, for which she received an Emmy Award nomination. Bostic also wrote and performed the Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am end-title song, “High Above the Water”, which was shortlisted for “Best Original Song” at the 2020 Oscars. Bostic’s scores also include Sundance award-winning film Clemency (on which she also served as an Executive Producer), Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It, HBO documentary Black Art: In the Absence of Light, and most recently, ABC’s limited series Women of the Movement from Emmy-nominated showrunner, Marissa Jo Cerar. Kathryn Bostic’s compositions have been performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, and the Bangor Symphony Orchestra. S