Crystal Grooms Mangano is a multi-talented composer and music supervisor who has strengthened a wide variety of television and film projects.
Most recently, Crystal's scoring work can be heard in the heartwarming documentary Mom & Dad's Nipple Factory, a film documenting a family's unique experience with breast cancer. The score is intimate and heartfelt, simply produced to feel as if it were being performed live in the family's living room.
Crystal’s work can also be heard in the thriller film No Escape starring Keegan Allen and Holland Roden, which features a musical palette of traditional orchestral elements punctuated by original manipulated recordings of heavy metals and iron. Crystal’s original music can be heard enlivening many projects across the independent film world. These include Across the Ocean, a film told in parallel story lines directed by two female directors from LA and India, the documentary Duty Free bringing to light the challenges of ageism in America, and SXSW selection Asperger’s Are Us, which followed a comedy troupe with Asperger’s syndrome, for which her score was nominated for a Hollywood Music & Media Award for best documentary score.
As a music supervisor, Crystal has worked on a diverse array of independent feature films including Saban Films’ Don't Tell a Soul starring Jack Dylan Grazer, Fionn Whitehead, Rainn Wilson and Mena Suvari, Shout! Studios’ Standing Up, Falling Down starring Billy Crystal and Ben Schwartz, and HBO feature documentary Cold Blue directed by Erik Nelson and produced by Paul Allen. Most recently she has music supervised the Netflix series The Madness starring Colman Domingo.
Crystal attributes much of her sound and musical approach to the creative freedom she received while studying film and music at Montana State University. She currently resides in the Hudson Valley in NY, where she can be found training for an upcoming marathon or spending rare downtime with her husband, Chris.
