Praised by BroadwayWorld as a "dramatically sophisticated" writer, composer and music director Jacinth Greywoode is a New York-based Florida native whose family hails from Sierra Leone. His compositions, 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 as The Civilians, American Opera Projects, and the Calidore String Quartet. 

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 Encores! Off-Center Lobby Project at New York City Center; MASTER, a short-form opera in collaboration with America Opera Projects; and WHITE RAVEN/BLACK DOVE,  an opera commission from Cerise Jacobs/White Snake Projects premiering in Boston in November 2022. 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 will be performed at Temple University in October of 2020 and Manhattan School of Music in February of 2021.

As music director, Jacinth has worked on various readings, workshops, and shows with the Public Theater, Universal Theatrical Group, Roundabout Theatre Company, and NYU Tisch among others. Most recently he was 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 Tennessee William’s THE ROSE TATTOO at American Airlines Theater (2020 Tony Nomination for Best Original Score), Music Assistant for Jason Michael Webb and Lelund Durond Thompson’s WiLDFLOWER at the Apollo Theater, and Music Supervisor for THIS IS B.S.

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