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.

Recent credits as music director include music supervision, direction, and arrangements for Leslye Headland’s CULT OF LOVE on Broadway (New York Times Critic’s Pick), music direction and orchestrations for the off-Broadway revival of I CAN GET IT FOR YOU WHOLESALE at Classic Stage (Drama Desk award for Best Revival, Outer Critics Circle award for Best Revival), associate music direction for the critically acclaimed revival of JELLY’S LAST JAM and WONDERFUL TOWN, both at Encores! City Center, and arrangements and music direction for Charles Fuller’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama A SOLDIER'S PLAY, which was nominated for the 2020 Best Revival of a Play Tony Award.

Other recent credits include Music Director for HOW TO BREAK at the Village Theater in Seattle, Associate MD for A STRANGE LOOP (Woolly Mammoth), Associate MD for Tennessee William’s THE ROSE TATTOO at American Airlines Theater (2020 Tony Nomination for Best Original Score), MD, Arranger, and Orchestrator for LOUDER THAN WORDS: The Songs and Legacy of Jonathan Larson (92NY), Music Director for Kirsten Child’s AUNT LILLIAN at the Vineyard Theatre, and Music Supervisor for THIS IS B.S. Jacinth also worked with Alex Lacamoire and Bill Sherman as copyist and music assistant for the soundtracks of TICK TICK…BOOM! and DEAR EVAN HANSEN, among other projects.

A resident of Greenpoint, Brooklyn, Jacinth received a Bachelor of Arts in music with a Certificate in collaborative piano performance from Princeton University, a Master of Fine Arts from the Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, and a PhD in Composition from Stony Brook University.