Jacinth Greywoode is a New York-based composer and music director whose family hails from Sierra Leone. His works, which range from opera and classical chamber pieces to Broadway-style theater music, have been performed on and off-Broadway, throughout the Americas and in Europe and Africa.

BLACK GIRL IN PARIS, a new musical written with AriDy Nox about the life of young Sally Hemings, is a 2025 Richard Rodgers Award winner, 2024 Rhinebeck Winner, a 2023 O’Neill NMTC Finalist, was featured in the 2020 Civilians R&D group, and was performed in concert at Joe’s Pub in July 2022 after a residency at LAMDA in England in June 2022. Jacinth and AriDy also received the Batten Fellowship from the Jefferson Foundation for a month long research residency at Monticello along with a Public Humanities NY grant to fund research in Paris in November of 2021.

Other current works include BLENDED HARMONY: The Kim Loo Sisters, a commission from the History Theatre with playwright Jessica Huang (May 2024), HOW TO BREAK, (Village Theatre), and WHITE RAVEN/BLACK DOVE, an opera commission from Cerise Jacobs/White Snake Projects premiering in Boston September 2025.

IRON JOHN: An American Ghost Story, written with collaborator Rebecca Hart, was named a 2020 Richard Rodgers Award finalist, a semifinalist for the 2019 O’Neill National Music Theater Conference and was featured in the National Alliance for Musical Theatre’s 31st Annual Festival of New Works in October of 2019 (Jonathan McRory, director; Andrea Grody, music director) after an Incubator Residency at the O’Neill Theater Center. IRON JOHN also received a staged workshop by NYU Tisch Department of Drama’s New Studio on Broadway (Kent Thompson, director; Byron Easley, choreographer), featured in the 2019 New Works Festival at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley (2019 Regional Theatre Tony Award winner), and was performed at Temple University in October of 2020, Manhattan School of Music in February of 2021, and the Irish Arts Center in February of 2023.

From 2012 to 2013, Jacinth was a Teaching Artist with the Sequoia Foundation of Rio de Janeiro and in 2015 he composed for the International Music Festival of the Adriatic in Trieste, Italy, from which he received the Duino Prize in composition. Other credits include The Big Mix on Little Island (dir. Tina Landau, music direction by Kim Grigsby; 2022), Encores! Off-Center Lobby Project at New York City Center (2018); and MASTER, a short-form opera in collaboration with America Opera Projects (2018).