Shao Jean Sim is a Los Angeles-based composer, songwriter, and producer. Originally from Singapore, her music journey began on the piano before expanding to various plucked stringed instruments.

Most recently, she scored Retrieval, which will premiere in the Documentary Competition at the Tribeca Film Festival 2026. She is a recipient of the New Music USA Reel Change Grant for the project. Her work spans film, television, records, theater, commercials, and video games, with credits on SKY, MTV, and Discovery Channel. She has contributed additional music to Netflix’s Eric and Sony’s I Know What You Did Last Summer for composers Keefus Ciancia and Chanda Dancy, and has orchestrated for Dan Romer and Mark Kilian.

As a songwriter and producer, she has collaborated with artists across Asia and the U.S. with her productions earning chart positions in Asia.

Her career started at the Village Studios in Los Angeles, where her credits as assistant engineer include Stevie Nicks and Weird Al Yankovic. She has worked as composers' assistant for Tom Howe and Didier Lean Rachou with credits including Ted Lasso S1 on Apple TV+ (score tech engineer), and Discovery’s Bering Sea Gold (score mixer, additional arrangements).

Fueled by curiosity, her wide musical palette spans thoughtful melodies, irreverent and inventive soundscapes, continually exploring new sonic territories with each collaboration.

She graduated from Berklee College of Music and holds a masters in Screen Scoring from USC. In 2023, she was also selected as one of 12 composers from around the world for the inaugural Composer Filmmaker Accelerator program at the Vancouver International Film Festival. 

Beyond music, she loves discovering hole-in-the-wall food and coffee places, off-grid adventures, and throwing fists at a heavy bag.

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