Jahn Sood

Jahn Sood is a New York based writer, composer and music editor. He recently wrote, composed and produced a short film called We Were an Island. His credits as music editor include films by Todd Haynes, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Janicza Bravo, Kelly Reichardt, Jacqueline Olive, Andrew Dominik, Jerrod Carmichael, Cooper Raiff, John Lee, Boaz Yakin, Mona Fastvold & more. He assisted composer Pat Irwin on the scores for Nurse Jackie (Showtime), Bored to Death (HBO), Feed the Beast (AMC), The Good Cop (Netflix), Peg Plus Cat (PBS); and did music preparation for The Affair (Showtime), Gypsy (Netflix), Adam. He has directed, recorded and edited more than 200 audio books including works written and narrated by John McPhee, Tracy K Smith, Loudon Wainwright III, Anne Fadiman & more. His original works for the theater including The Disappearing Man, In A Sea of Faces and others have been presented in New York, regionally and internationally. He was a founding member of Ezra Furman & the Harpoons and toured nationally with the group, and is a graduate of NYU Tisch (MFA) and Tufts University (BA).

In 2022, Sood received Motion Picture Sound Editor's Golden Reels and Cinema Eye Honors Nominations for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Design (with Leslie Shatz) for his work on Todd Haynes' The Velvet Underground. In 2019, He won "Best Score" at the Berkshire Short Film Festival for his work on We Were an Island. He is an artist-in-residence in Roundabout Theater Company's "Space Jam" program and a recipient of "How the Light Gets In" a commission from the New York Musical Festival and the ASCAP foundation.