Jay Wadley is a NY-based composer and music producer, a two-time winner of the Charles Ives Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and was featured in IndieWires’ 2020 and 2016’s 10 Best Scores of the Year. His score for Charlie Kaufman’s psychological drama/thriller I’m Thinking of Ending Things, featured an original ballet, two songs from the musical “Oklahoma!”, and an original song co-written with Kaufman in the form of a hallucinatory 1950s ice-cream jingle. Other recent projects include Oscar-winning director Ben Cleary’s Swan Song (Apple/Anonymous), Heidi Ewing’s 2020 Sundance NEXT award-winning narrative debut I Carry You with Me(Sony Pictures Classics), a commissioned dance piece from CoLab Ensemble for a 2021 premiere at The Guggenheim, Emma Tammi’s Blood Moon (Blumhouse/Hulu), additional music and percussion on M. Night Shyamalan’s OLD, and music producer on James Gray’s Armageddon Time. Forthcoming releases include Minhal Baig’s We Grown Now (Sony Worldwide) and Franklin (Apple TV+) from Director/Show-runner Tim Van Patten (The Sopranos, Boardwalk Empire, Game of Thrones).
