Devonté Hynes is well-known as a musical collaborator, songwriter and producer who’s labored with a various and ever-expanding group of artists (Solange, Mariah Carey, Harry Kinds and Carly Rae Jepsen, to call a number of) and a composer for movie, tv, dance and classical ensembles. Now, Billboard can completely reveal that the artist also referred to as Blood Orange will quickly add one other inventive milestone to his resumé: his Broadway composing debut.
Hynes will compose unique music for the play JOB, which begins performances on the Hayes Theatre on July 15 upfront of an official July 30 opening. JOB arrives following an acclaimed, hit off-Broadway run that started in fall 2023 at SoHo Playhouse and transferred to the Connelly Theatre for a second, standing-room-only run.
Sydney Lemmon and Peter Friedman star in JOB.
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“Anybody conversant in Dev’s work already is aware of what a naturally sensible storyteller he’s,” producer Hannah Getts stated in a press release, “so it’s no shock that his work on JOB not solely enriches the thematic and narrative threads but additionally deepens the emotional resonance of the play.”
A psychological thriller written by Max Wolf Friedlich and directed by Michael Herwitz, JOB facilities on an worker of a giant tech firm (performed by Sydney Lemmon) who’s positioned on go away after she turns into the topic of a viral video and, decided to regain the job that offers her life that means, seeks the assistance of a disaster therapist (performed by Peter Friedman).
Hynes is pleasant with Lemmon, who relayed to JOB‘s producers that he’d seen and beloved the present throughout its Connelly run; when it grew to become clear that the present would switch to Broadway, the producers together with playwright Wolf Friedlich — who’d all the time wished to include outdoors artists into the present’s inventive crew — approached Hynes about composing music for it.
A 2021 Grammy nominee in the most effective chamber music or small ensemble efficiency class for his work with Third Coast Percussion on their album Fields, Hynes has launched 4 solo albums as Blood Orange. His scoring work consists of the movies Queen and Slim, Passing and Grasp Gardener, in addition to the HBO collection We Are Who We Are. A multi-instrumentalist, Hynes was one among simply 4 pianists invited to play alongside composer Philip Glass on the Kennedy Heart in 2018, and his personal debut concerto for piano and strings premiered at New York’s Little Island Competition in 2021; he’s additionally collaborated with numerous main symphony orchestras.
