Jacinth Greywoode is a New York-based composer and music director whose family hails from Sierra Leone. His works, which range from classical chamber pieces to Broadway-style theater music, have been performed throughout the Americas and in Europe and Africa by such groups and companies as The Civilians, American Opera Projects, The Village Theatre, the Public, Theater Mu, Calidore String Quartet and others.

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. Recent 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); MASTER, a short-form opera in collaboration with America Opera Projects (2018); and WHITE RAVEN/BLACK DOVE, an opera commission from Cerise Jacobs/White Snake Projects premiering in Boston in November 2025.

Current works include BLENDED HARMONY: The Kim Loo Sisters, a commission from the History Theatre with playwright Jessica Huang (May 2024), and HOW TO BREAK, (Village Theatre). 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.

BLACK GIRL IN PARIS, a new musical written with AriDy Nox about the life of young Sally Hemings, is a 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.

As music director and arranger, Jacinth has worked on various readings, workshops, and shows with the Public Theater, Universal Theatrical Group, RCI Theatricals, Roundabout Theatre Company, and NYU Tisch among others. Recent credits include Associate MD for the critically acclaimed revival of JELLY’S LAST JAM at Encores! City Center, orchestrations and music direction 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), and arrangements and music direction for Leslye Headland’s CULT OF LOVE at Berkeley Rep (coming to Broadway Winter 2024). Jacinth also served as Music Consultant and Arranger 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 roles include Associate Music Director for A STRANGE LOOP (Woolly Mammoth) and for Tennessee William’s THE ROSE TATTOO at American Airlines Theater (2020 Tony Nomination for Best Original Score), Music Director for Kirsten Child’s AUNT LILLIAN at the Vineyard Theatre, Music Assistant for Jason Michael Webb and Lelund Durond Thompson’s WiLDFLOWER at the Apollo Theater, 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.