Jay Wadley

Jay Wadley

ComposerMusic DepartmentSoundtrack
Awards
0 wins, 3 nominations

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. He recently scored Charlie Kaufman's psychological drama/thriller I'm Thinking…

Biography

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. He recently scored Charlie Kaufman's psychological drama/thriller I'm Thinking of Ending Things, for which he also composed an original ballet, an original song co-written with Kaufman in the form of a hallucinatory 1950s ice-cream jingle, and produced two songs from the musical "Oklahoma!". Other recent projects include Oscar-winning director Ben Cleary's Swan Song(Apple/Anonymous), Minhal Baig's feature We Grown Now(Participant/Sony), Hulu's hit show Tell Me Lies from Meaghan Oppenheimer, Heidi Ewing's 2020 Sundance NEXT award-winning narrative debut I Carry You with Me (Sony Pictures Classics), a commissioned modern dance piece from CoLab Ensemble for The Guggenheim's works in process series, Emma Tammi's Blood Moon (Blumhouse/Hulu) and additional music and percussion on M. Night Shyamalan's OLD.

Producer

SoftSoft(2019)

Music Department

O'DessaO'Dessa(2025)
Heart EyesHeart Eyes(2025)
Fire IslandFire Island(2022)
Armageddon TimeArmageddon Time(2022)
OldOld(2021)

Thanks

Bat-CannedBat-Canned(2023)
MaineMaine(2018)

Self

Tell Me Lies: Official PodcastTell Me Lies: Official Podcast(2026)as Self - Composer
The Film ScorerThe Film Scorer(2020)as Self

Known for

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Jay Wadley at his studio in Dumbo, Brooklyn.Jay WadleyJay Wadley conducting the orchestra for Charlie Kaufman's "I'm Thinking of Ending Things"Recording at DiMenna Center in NYCJay WadleyJay Wadley