Jesi Oklee Nelson
- Composer
- Music Department
Jesi Oklee Nelson is a Korean born, Wisconsin raised, Los Angeles based composer for film & television. Her most recent works include DreamWorks Animation's TV series Curses! on AppleTV, Marvel's docuseries MPower, Lucasfilm's Star Wars "Biomes" and "Vehicle Flythroughs" on Disney+, where Jesi became the first female and BIPOC lead composer on a Star Wars project. She also co-scored Discovery's "Liberation Heroes: The Last Eyewitness" and Playmobil's animated series "Novelmore". Her past works comprise of a variety of films, such as "Aurinko in Adagio" and "Shoebox" which were part of Lena Waithe's Indeed "Rising Voices" initiative and premiered at Tribeca 2021. Jesi has also written additional music for "DOTA Dragon's Blood" (she also scored the trailers for season one), EMMY nominated "Lego Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures", and "Lego Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu", amongst a wide variety of other films and tv series.
She is one of eight composers selected for the 2nd class of the Universal Composers Initiative, an alumna of the highly competitive Sundance Film Music & Sound Design Lab (2017) held at Skywalker Ranch, and was the recipient of the Sundance Institute and Time Warner Foundation grant, where 11 diverse independent artists were chosen from different Sundance labs, in its continued efforts to discover and support independent artists from diverse backgrounds. She is also an alumna of the prestigious ASCAP Composers Workshop with Richard Bellis (2018).
As a result of the Sundance labs, she scored the award winning feature film Jinn, which made its premiere at the 2018 SXSW to great acclaim, with a theatrical and nationwide release later in the year. She was also chosen to write the music for the 2018 Sundance Film Festival trailer played before each film.
From 2015-2017, Jesi assisted Emmy nominated composer Michael Kramer. She received her BFA in Music Composition and Technology from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Master of Fine Arts in Music Composition for the Screen at Columbia College.
She is represented by Rochelle Sharpe of Incite Management.
She is one of eight composers selected for the 2nd class of the Universal Composers Initiative, an alumna of the highly competitive Sundance Film Music & Sound Design Lab (2017) held at Skywalker Ranch, and was the recipient of the Sundance Institute and Time Warner Foundation grant, where 11 diverse independent artists were chosen from different Sundance labs, in its continued efforts to discover and support independent artists from diverse backgrounds. She is also an alumna of the prestigious ASCAP Composers Workshop with Richard Bellis (2018).
As a result of the Sundance labs, she scored the award winning feature film Jinn, which made its premiere at the 2018 SXSW to great acclaim, with a theatrical and nationwide release later in the year. She was also chosen to write the music for the 2018 Sundance Film Festival trailer played before each film.
From 2015-2017, Jesi assisted Emmy nominated composer Michael Kramer. She received her BFA in Music Composition and Technology from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Master of Fine Arts in Music Composition for the Screen at Columbia College.
She is represented by Rochelle Sharpe of Incite Management.
