Tyler Strickland is an Emmy Award Winning film composer and music producer based in Los Angeles, CA. From 2004-2011, he traveled the world with a variety of bands as a multi-instrumentalist; sharpening his skills in different genres. After deciding to leave behind the touring life, he quickly found his dream path of writing music for film and television.
In the past decade, Tyler has scored over 50 films that have collectively received a dozen Emmy nominations and have won numerous awards from the most prestigious film festivals around the world such as; Hot Girls Wanted (Netflix), Audrie & Daisy (Netflix), Jackson (Showtime), Ernie & Joe (HBO), The American Meme (Netflix) and Fresh Dressed (CNN) to name a few. Tyler is also no stranger to television, having composed for Netflix’s Chef’s Table universe as well as George Clooney-produced true crime series, Trial By Media, and Stephen King’s Castle Rock for Hulu.
Most recently Tyler scored the new six-hour series for Peacock, “John Wayne Gacy: Devil In Disguise”, FX documentary series, “Pride” for FX, and Adam McKay-produced, “The Oxy Kingpins” which premiered at the 2021 SXSW film festival, and Hulu Original Documentary, “Changing The Game”.
Tyler continues to produce and create albums as a songwriter between film scores, and won a Dove Award for producing Jon Foreman’s Best Rock Album of The Year, “The Wonderlands: Sunlight & Shadows”, which debuted at #2 on the Billboard charts. Most recently, he co-wrote the song “Chasing Dreams” for the Hulu documentary “Changing The Game”.
In 2022 received a Emmy award for his score to the six-part Netflix series, “Cat People”. Other recent projects for Tyler include the four-hour epic HBO series, “Edge Of The Earth”, Sony documentary, “Thriller 40” about Michael Jackson’s highest grossing album of all time, Netflix’s “SLY” about the legendary life of Sylvester Stallone, and 3 part series
”Navajo Police: Class 57” for HBO produced by Davis Guggenheim.