DYAN

Dyan is the solo project of film composer, Alexis Dyan Marsh. Between scoring the TNT television series, Animal Kingdom, or composing for feature films (Jazzy, The Unknown Country, NextGen), Marsh started writing songs to fill in where directors wanted music with lyrics. Her first album, Looking For Knives, was the result of producing songs that made it into cuts and some that didn’t. The effort showed Marsh a different way to release music, apart from the screen, but still aiming to create sound that evokes imagery. Midwest is Marsh’s second album of songs, written while moving back and forth between Los Angeles and Cincinnati, eventually settling in the midwest with her partner and son. It was there where Marsh was able to build a studio of her own to write, produce, and mix Dyan songs while she continued to compose for film. Her latest film score was written for Morrisa Maltz’s secondfeature film, Jazzy, which premiered at the 2024 Tribeca Film Festival. The film has gone on to screen at SXSW Sydney, the Rome Film Festival and was nominated for the John Cassavetes Award as part of the 2025 Film Independent Spirit Awards.