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Jay Wadley

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Jay Wadley
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.
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    Known for

    Jessie Buckley in I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020)
    I'm Thinking of Ending Things
    6.5
    • Composer
    • 2020
    Michael Douglas, Ludivine Sagnier, and Noah Jupe in Franklin (2024)
    Franklin
    6.9
    TV Mini Series
    • Composer
    Mahershala Ali in Swan Song (2021)
    Swan Song
    6.8
    • Composer
    • 2021
    Heart Eyes (2025)
    Heart Eyes
    6.1
    • Composer
    • 2025

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    • Shia LaBeouf and Evan Jonigkeit in Henry Johnson (2025)
      Henry Johnson
      5.6
      • Composer
      • 2025
    • Control Freak (2025)
      Control Freak
      4.5
      • Composer
      • 2025
    • Heart Eyes (2025)
      Heart Eyes
      6.1
      • Composer
      • 2025
    • Kelly Marie Tran in The Wedding Banquet (2025)
      The Wedding Banquet
      6.4
      • Composer
      • 2025
    • Billy Crystal and Jacobi Jupe in Before (2024)
      Before
      6.1
      TV Series
      • Composer
      • 2024
    • Grace Van Patten and Jackson White in Tell Me Lies (2022)
      Tell Me Lies
      7.0
      TV Series
      • Composer
      • 2022–2024
    • Bill Murray, Naomi Watts, and Bing in The Friend (2024)
      The Friend
      6.4
      • Composer
      • 2024
    • Michael Douglas, Ludivine Sagnier, and Noah Jupe in Franklin (2024)
      Franklin
      6.9
      TV Mini Series
      • Composer
      • 2024
    • We Strangers (2024)
      We Strangers
      5.9
      • Composer
      • 2024
    • Imogene (2023)
      Imogene
      Short
      • Composer
      • 2023
    • Blake Cameron James in We Grown Now (2023)
      We Grown Now
      6.8
      • Composer
      • 2023
    • Fire Island (2022)
      Fire Island
      6.7
      • Composer
      • 2022
    • The Wake (2022)
      The Wake
      8.2
      Short
      • Composer
      • 2022
    • Mahershala Ali in Swan Song (2021)
      Swan Song
      6.8
      • Composer
      • 2021
    • Minnie Driver, Anna Paquin, Sophie Okonedo, Kit Harington, and Dominique Fishback in Modern Love (2019)
      Modern Love
      7.9
      TV Series
      • Composer
      • 2021

    Music Department



    • Regina Hall, Kelvin Harrison Jr., and Sadie Sink in O'Dessa (2025)
      O'Dessa
      5.0
      • score producer: found objects music productions
      • 2025
    • Heart Eyes (2025)
      Heart Eyes
      6.1
      • score producer
      • 2025
    • Fire Island (2022)
      Fire Island
      6.7
      • orchestrator
      • 2022
    • Anthony Hopkins, Anne Hathaway, Jeremy Strong, Jaylin Webb, and Banks Repeta in Armageddon Time (2022)
      Armageddon Time
      6.4
      • music producer
      • 2022
    • Old (2021)
      Old
      5.8
      • composer: additional music
      • 2021
    • Justin Timberlake and Ryder Allen in Palmer (2021)
      Palmer
      7.3
      • musician: Drums
      • 2021
    • Emily Axford and Brian Murphy in Hot Date (2017)
      Hot Date
      7.1
      TV Series
      • composer: theme music
      • 2017
    • Double Play (2017)
      Double Play
      6.6
      • conductor
      • 2017
    • Sarah Gadon and Logan Lerman in Indignation (2016)
      Indignation
      6.7
      • conductor
      • 2016
    • Richard Gere in Time Out of Mind (2014)
      Time Out of Mind
      5.7
      • composer: additional music
      • 2014
    • Dropout (2006)
      Dropout
      7.7
      TV Series
      • vocals
      • music
      • vocalist ...
      • 2011–2013
    • The Nine Lives of Chloe King (2011)
      The Nine Lives of Chloe King
      7.0
      TV Series
      • composer: additional music
      • 2011
    • The Singularity Is Near (2010)
      The Singularity Is Near
      6.4
      • composer: additional music
      • 2010
    • Christopher Eccleston, Peter Capaldi, David Tennant, Matt Smith, and Jodie Whittaker in Doctor Who (2005)
      Doctor Who
      8.5
      TV Series
      • orchestrator (uncredited)
      • 2009
    • The Botany of Desire (2009)
      The Botany of Desire
      7.6
      TV Movie
      • film score producer
      • 2009

    Soundtrack



    • Fire Island (2022)
      Fire Island
      6.7
      • arranger: "Schafe konnen sicher weiden, Cantata BWV 208", "The Four Seasons, Winter: I. Allegro non molto", "I'm Making Believe", "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 565"
      • 2022
    • Jessie Buckley in I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020)
      I'm Thinking of Ending Things
      6.5
      • music: "Tulsey Town Jingle"
      • 2020
    • Sarah Gadon and Logan Lerman in Indignation (2016)
      Indignation
      6.7
      • music: "Is It Love"
      • 2016

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