Jonathan Sadoff grew up in the Chicago suburbs, trained in classical and jazz at USC's Thornton School of Music, and spent years performing before he ever scored a film. That path — through conservatory, touring bands, and recording studios on two continents — is audible in his work: scores that know when to sound like a score and when to become something harder to place.
As a member of the London/LA collective Thenewno2, Sadoff wrote and recorded with Dhani Harrison and Paul Hicks, touring Coachella, Lollapalooza, and Pearl Jam's PJ20 festival. In 2013, the band pivoted to film, scoring Beautiful Creatures with a 60-piece orchestra at Abbey Road — and Sadoff found where his instincts were best put to use.
In the years since, his credits have ranged from festival-circuit indie films to network comedies to prestige television: The Peanut Butter Falcon, Ingrid Goes West, Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, HBO's Chimp Crazy, two seasons each of The Mick and Dollface, Peacock's Angelyne, and Paramount's animated musical Under the Boardwalk, for which he co-wrote both the original songs and score. He has worked alongside Mark Mothersbaugh, T Bone Burnett, John Debney, and Rob Simonsen, and with musicians from The Punch Brothers, Jane's Addiction, Sleater-Kinney, and Rufus Wainwright.
His sound sits at the intersection of traditional Hollywood score and modern needle-drop sensibility — purposeful, adaptable, and built to serve the story.