CARLA PATULLO “They stand, seducing out of shadows. Playing romantic and www.carlapatullo.com heartbreaking song stories that tie together obsession, desire and [email protected] dream with a voice that curls like smoke.” - Big Takeover Magazine 1.310.746.7664

Carla Patullo is an American composer, who also records and performs as WHITE WIDOW. She has created rich and diverse soundscapes for film and television productions that have won awards including aDaytime Emmy, a BAFTA, an Independent Spirit Award, and a GLAAD Media Award. She has musical directed shows featuring artists Sandra Bernhard, Liza Minnelli, Rufus Wainwright, Leisha Hailey, and Justin Vivian Bond.

In 2019, the Sundance Film Institute invited Carla to perform at the Sundance Film Festival. Skywalker Sound and the Sundance Institute also selected Carla as a Composer Fellow for the Sundance Film Music and Sound Design Lab, during which she developed her haunting and vocally-driven score to Keola Racela’s horror comedy PORNO which premiered at SXSW in 2019, and is set for a theatrical release in April 2020 (Fangoria). According to Variety Magazine, “Carla Patullo’s score is a nicely poker-faced channeling of fantasy-action soundtrack tropes from a generation ago.”

Carla’s recent credits include MY NAME IS MARIA DE JESUS (HBO), TEEN TITANS GO! (Cartoon Network), PORNO (SXSW), the Independent Spirit award-winning film SPA NIGHT(Sundance, Netflix), the award-winning film JEANNE CORDOVA (Outfest), LETTER TO ANITA (Outfest), PIZZA FACE (San Diego Comic-Con), and LOTTE THAT SILHOUETTE GIRL (2018 IDA Shortlist). She is currently working on the feature film SHADOWMAKER (Trick Studio) about animation pioneer Lotte Reiniger; and Gregorio Davila’s LGBTA documentary LA: A QUEER HISTORY.

Recently, a track from LOTTE THAT SILHOUETTE GIRL was released on Movie Score Media/Quartet Records: Short Cuts 2018: The Best of Original Short Motion Picture Scores, featuring works by Carla Patullo, Angelo Badalamenti, Joseph Stevens, and others.

In addition to composing, Carla is a prolific songwriter and has had over 100 song placements on Emmy and BAFTA award- winning shows, such as THE ELLEN DEGENERES SHOW (NBC), THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS (CBS), SKINS (E4), and in dance performances by Maddie Ziegler on the reality show DANCE MOMS (Lifetime). Carla has also toured internationally as a solo performer and with her band. Her vocals can be heard on the Microsoft video game PROJECT SPARK and the PBS show CRAFT IN AMERICA. She was also the musical director for actress/comedian Sandra Bernhard’s I LOVE BEING ME, DON’T YOU album tour. Sandra described Carla on her album as “so fucking raw and groovy that it scares the shit out of me!”

Carla was also part of the 2016 Nautilus Composer - Librettist Studio, where she since then has been developing the musical Hurricane with Cory Hinkle.