Spencer Creaghan

Spencer Creaghan is a Canadian musician and film composer.

Spencer Creaghan
Creaghan in 2017
Born	Spencer Creaghan
Education	York University
Occupation	Film composer
Years active	2012–present
Notable work	Teenagers, I Don't Know Who You Are, SurrealEstate

Creaghan has created original scores for the web series Teenagers, television series such as SurrealEstate, and feature films such as Black Water (2018), Quickening (2021), Motherly (2021), and I Don't Know Who You Are (2023), the latter of which premiered at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival.^[1]

Career

Film

Creaghan has been producing film scores for over a decade. He attended York University, where met many of his collaborators. He is also an alumnus of the Slaight Family Music Lab at the Canadian Film Centre.

In 2022, Creaghan received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Original Score at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards for his work on the 2021 film Motherly.^[2]

Creaghan created the score for M. H. Murray's feature film I Don't Know Who You Are, which premiered in the Discovery program at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival.^[1][3] The film received acclaim from critics and was released theatrically in 2024.^[4]

His other credits have included the films Black Water and Quickening,^[5][6] the web series Teenagers,^[7] and the television drama series SurrealEstate.^[8][9]

Other work

He has also composed orchestral parts for symphonic metal bands, including Carnifex, Aborted, Devilment, Astaroth, Diamorte, and Lindsay Schoolcraft.