Nancy Allen discovered music editing at NYU, where she attended the graduate program in music technology. During this time, she met fellow Screen Scoring faculty member and renowned music editor Suzana Peric with whom she worked for nearly ten years. Her first film was Scorsese’s Kundun (scored by Philip Glass). Together with Suzana, she went on to work with directors like Roman Polanski (The Pianist, The Ninth Gate), Mike Nichols (Closer, Charlie Wilson's War), Jonathan Demme (Beloved, Heart of Gold, Rachel Getting Married), and Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring). Since then, Nancy has worked on films with Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan, Noah), John Cameron Mitchell (ShortBus), Paul Haggis (The Next Three Days), Barry Levinson (Liberty Heights, You Don't Know Jack), and David Frankel (Hope Springs, One Chance, Collateral Beauty). She has been nominated for two Golden Reel awards (winning for Lord of the Rings) and was part of the Emmy award-winning team for the sound and music on HBO's Bessie. She received her undergraduate degree in marketing and English from Georgetown University and her graduate degree from NYU.