John Morgan Askew is an award-winning, film and television composer, music-producer and mixer living in Portland, Oregon.
Askew has composed original scores for over a dozen feature films, including the Primetime Emmy-Nominated, HBO mini-series Q : Into The Storm (dir. Cullen Hoback), documentaries Terms and Conditions May Apply and What Lies Upstream, and the 2020, critically acclaimed feature-film, Phoenix, Oregon (dir. Gary Lundgren).
Most recently, Askew completed the original score to the three part series Killer Lies : Chasing A True Crime Con Man (Nat Geo/ New Yorker Studios), and the score to “Lie To Fly” (New York Times/ Hulu/ FX), both premiering in August of 2024.
As well, coming October 8, 2024 is world premier of the HBO Documentary feature called Money Electric : The Bitcoin Mystery which is the forth documentary project Askew has scored for director Cullen Hoback.
As a record producer, mixer and recording engineer, Askew has produced, and collaborated with artists including M. Ward, The Delines, She & Him, Sera Cahoone, Margo Cilker, Howe Gelb, Laura Gibson, Casey Neill, Califone, The Dodos, The Coral Sea and Neko Case.
Askew works out of his recording studio, BOCCE, in Vancouver, Washington.