Catherine Joy

Originally from Tasmania, Australia, Catherine Joy is a composer, music producer, community leader and educator. She's received multiple awards and nominations including best score for the doc Gold Balls, an ASCAP Composers Choice Award nomination for Naughty Books and the David Raksin SCL Emerging Talent award for Home Is A Hotel.  She has scored a number of Romantic Comedies for Reel One Entertainment including Love Gala, Luckless in Love and Romantic Rewrite, two thrillers for Lifetime, and composed additional music for the recent Dalai Lama documentary Wisdom of Happiness, and projects from Disney, Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Sony, Discovery and History channel. One of her favorite projects to date was scoring a Sesame Street Letter segment. Catherine has also has been lead orchestrator and produced scoring sessions for acclaimed projects such as the Oscar-winning A24’s Minari, Universal Pictures’ Speak No Evil, The White House Effect, The Problem With People, UNTOLD on Netflix, Hulu’s Death and Other Details, HBO’s Edge of the Earth and most recently the new JJ Abrams Apple TV series Presumed Innocent. Catherine is the founder and CEO of Joy Music House, a full service score production company. She was the President of the Alliance for Women Film Composers from 2021-2023 after being part of the leadership from 2016, and now serves on the Advisory board. She is also on the Early Career Committee for the Society of Composers & Lyricists and she is Adjunct Faculty for the NYU Steinhardt Screen Scoring Masters program.