Layla Minoui is an Iranian-American composer for film and television based in Los Angeles. She is known for her remarkable emotional depth, which lends itself to a sense of openness and breathability in her music. Across a wide variety of genres, she explores sound, texture, and movement and finds the right tone to best support a story, giving each picture its own unique sonic world. Instead of telling the audience what they ought to be feeling, she identifies the core emotions of a character, drawing out the emotional subtext and connects the audience to its rawest essence through music.
Layla Minoui has amassed a diversity of credits in both film and television including DreamWorks short To Gerard (written/directed by Taylor Meacham), Disney animation series Vampirina (created by Chris Nee), Netflix series Ridley Jones (Chris Nee), Bravo’s Girlfriend’s Guide to Divorce, and has written additional music for Castle (ABC), The Gates (ABC), The Family (ABC), Lie to Me (Fox), and Disney Channel’s original movie Girl vs. Monster. Minoui has worked on several independent features including comedy-thriller The Sound and the Shadow (dir. Justin Paul Miller) and Elysium Bandini’s gothic drama The Mad Whale starring James Franco and Camilla Belle. Her score for The Mad Whale has been nominated for the HMMA 2017’s Best Original Score for an Independent Feature Film.
Throughout Layla’s career, she has also participated in Hollywood’s most prestigious film scoring programs including ASCAP’s Film Scoring Workshop in 2011, for which she was granted the Recording Musicians Associations of LA Grant. In 2018, Layla was selected as a featured composer in the first Universal Composers Initiative, and went on to score DreamWorks Animation film To Gerard (writer/dir. Taylor Meacham).
