Sound Designer

Show Listing 68 shows listed
1:23 Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park 2007
by Carson Kreitzer director: Mark Wing-Davey
Description : Pre-Recorded Sound Design
Awake and Sing Arena Stage 2006
by Clifford Odets director: Zelda Fichandler
Description : Pre-recorded Sound Design
The Listener: World Premiere Play Julliard 2006
by Craig Lucas (book) & Michael Torke (Music) director: Mark Wing-Davey
Description : Pre-recorded Sound Design & Live Reinforcement
Bacchae NYU Undergraduate Drama 2005
by Euripides (translated by Paul Schmidt) director: Kevin Kulkhe
Description : Pre-recorded Sound Design & Live Reinforcement
The Cripple of Inishman NYU Graduate Acting & Design 2005
by Martin McDonagh director: Victor Pappas
Description : Pre-recorded Sound Design
Split Wide Open Summer Play Festival 2005
by Christina Gorman director: Lisa Rothe
Description : Pre-recorded Sound Design/Original Music
Machinal Bard College 2005
by Sophie Treadwell director: Lisa Rothe
Description : Original Music & Pre-Recorded Sound Design
Fox Hollow Playwrights Horizons Theatre School 2005
by Steve Druckman director: Fritz Ertl
Description : Original Music, Pre-Recorded Sound Design
As You Like It NYU Graduate Acting & Design 2005
by William Shakespeare director: David Hammond
Description : Original Music and Live Sound Design
Top Girls NYU Graduate Acting & Design 2004
by Caryl Churchill director: Lisa Roethe
Description : Pre-recorded Sound Design/Original Music
Golden Boy NYU Graduate Acting & Design 2004
by Clifford Odets director: Victor Pappas
Description : Pre-recorded Sound Design
Blues for an Alabama Sky NYU Graduate Acting & Design 2004
by Pearl Cleage director: Ken Washington
Description : Pre-recorded Sound Design
Intimate Apparel Mark Taper Forum 2004
by Lynn Nottage director: Daniel Sullivan
Description : Pre-recorded Sound Design
America's Next Smokesperson American Cancer Society 2004
by Sam Niemann (animation) director: CTSG
Description : All sounds and music
Intimate Apparel Roundabout Theatre Company 2004
by Lynn Nottage director: Daniel Sullivan
Description : Pre-Recorded Sound Design
CWA See-n-Say Communication Workers of America 2004
director: CTSG
Description : Sound Effects and VO
Life's a Dream NYU Undergrad Drama 2004
by Pedro Calderon de la Barca director: Nataki Garrett
Description : Original Music & Pre-Recorded Sound Design
Blue Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park 2004
by Charles Randolph-Wright director: Kenny Leon
Description : Pre-Recorded Sound Design
Full Circle NYU Undergrad Drama 2004
by Charles L. Mee director: Emma Griffin
Description : Pre-Recorded Sound Design
Gum NYU Graduate Acting & Design 2004
by Karen Hartman director: Lisa Roethe
Description : Original Music & Pre-Recorded Sound Design
The Cherry Orchard NYU Graduate Acting & Design 2004
by Anton Chekhov director: Zelda Fichandler
Description : Pre-recorded Sound Design, Musical Coaching
Fufanu Fund for Animals 2004
by Sam Niemann (animation) director: CTSG
Description : Composition
Les Liaisons Dangereuses NYU Graduate Acting & Design 2003
by Christopher Hampton director: Tim Vasen
Description : Pre-recorded Sound Design, Musical Direction
The Misanthrope NYU Graduate Acting & Design 2003
by Moliere
translated & adapted by Lauren Goldman Marshall
director: Timothy Douglas
Description : Original Music
The Afghan Women Passage Theatre Company 2003
by Bill Mastersimone director: Jonathan Bernstein
Description : Pre-Recorded Sound Design
Company NYU Undergrad Drama
at the Skirball Theater
2003
by Stephen Sondheim director: Arthur Bartow
Description : Pre-recorded Design (Mentoring Live Installation)
King Hedley II NYU Graduate Acting & Design 2003
by August Wilson director: Kenneth Washington
Description : Pre-Recorded Sound Design
Campaign to Ban Assault Weapons 2003
by Violence Policy Center director: CTSG
Description : Sound Design and Composition
The Good Person of Setzuan NYU Graduate Acting & Design 2003
by Bertolt Brecht director: Tim Vasen
Description : Original Score, Musical Direction
The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park 2003
by Carson Kreitzer director: Mark Wing-Davey
Description : Pre-recorded Sound Design
Belgrade Trilogy NYU Undergraduate Drama 2003
by Biljana Srbljanovic director: Annie Dorsen
Description : Pre-recorded Sound Design
Kasimir and Karoline NYU Graduate Acting & Design 2003
by Otto von Horvath director: Liviu Ciulei
Description : Pre-recorded Sound Design
Playboy Of The West Indies NYU Graduate Acting & Design 2003
by Mustapha Matura director: Tazwell Thompson
Description : Pre-recorded Sound Design
The Seagull NYU Graduate Acting & Design 2002
by Anton Chekhov director: Kenneth Washington
Description : Pre-recorded Sound Design
The Sweepers Urban Stages 2002
by John C. Picardi director: Frances Hill
Description : Pre-recorded Sound Design
Tegonni NYU Undergraduate Drama 2002
by Femi Osofisan director: Chuck Mike
Description : Pre-recorded Sound Design
Carousel NYU Undergraduate Drama 2002
by Rodgers & Hammerstein director: Arthur Bartow
Description : Live Sound Design
Women of Troy NYU Graduate Acting & Design 2002
by Euripides director: Mark Wing-Davey
Description : Original Score, Pre-recorded Sound Design
On The Verge Washington Square Church 2002
by Eric Overmyer director: Steve Ramshur
Description : Pre-recorded Sound Design
The Sword Master Workshop Production 2002
by J. Steven White director: Steve Ramshur
Description : Pre-recorded Sound Design
Circumference of a Squirrel Urban Stages 2002
by John Walch director: T.L. Reilly
Description : Pre-recorded Sound Design
The Matchmaker NYU Graduate Acting & Design 2002
by Thorton Wilder director: Paul Weidner
Description : Actor-Generated Sound Design
In the Blood NYU Graduate Acting & Design 2002
by Suzan-Lori Parks director: Michael Sexton
Description : Original Music, Pre-recorded Sound Design
Streamers NYU Graduate Acting & Design 2001
by David Rabe director: Ken Washington
Description : Pre-recorded Sound Design
Don Juan Comes Back from the War NYU Graduate Acting & Design 2001
by Odon von Horvath director: Liviu Ciulei
Description : Pre-recorded Sound Design
The Three Sisters NYU Graduate Acting & Design 2001
by Anton Chekhov director: Giovanna Sardelli
Description : Pre-recorded Sound Design
An Experiment With An Air Pump NYU Graduate Acting & Design 2001
by Shelagh Stephenson director: Rosie Hay
Description : Pre-recorded Sound Design
Division of Memory P.S.122 2001
by Clarinda MacLow director: Clarinda MacLow
Description : Pre-recorded Sound Design
Mother Lolita Urban Stages 2001
by Guillermo Reyes director: T.L.Reilly
Description : Pre-recorded Sound Design
Seven Guitars NYU Graduate Acting & Design 2001
by August Wilson director: Ken Washington
Description : Pre-recorded Sound Design
A Midsummer Night’s Dream NYU Graduate Acting & Design 2001
by William Shakespeare director: Yvgeny
Description : Actor-Generated Sound Design, Musical Direction, Original Music
Avenue X NYU Undergraduate Drama 2001
by Ray Leslee & John Jiler director: Daniel Banks
Description : Pre-recorded and Live Sound Design
Spell #7 Tisch Undergraduate Acting 2000
by Ntozake Shange director: Trazana Beverly
Description : Pre-recorded and Live Sound Design
Pipe Gloucester Stage Company 2000
by John Greiner & Marc Gwinn director: Marc Gwinn
Description : Original Score
Coyote on a Fence Urban Stages 2000
by Bruce Graham director: Lou Jacobs
Description : Pre-recorded Sound Design
2000 Drama Desk Nominee for Outstanding Sound Design
Hamlet New York Shakespeare Festival 1999 ~ 2000
by William Shakespeare director: Andre Serban
Description : Musical Arrangements, Musician
Ghosts Century Center for the Performing Arts 1999
by Henrik Ibsen director: J.C. Compton
Description : Pre-recorded Sound Design
Blues for an Alabama Sky NYU Graduate Acting & Design 1999
by Pearl Cleage director: Kenneth Washington
Description : Pre-recorded Sound Design
Dream The Limelight 1999
by William Shakespeare director: Jonathan Mazer
Description : Pre-recorded Sound Design, Original Music, Engineer, Musician, Board Op
Master of Things Philadelphia Fringe Festival 1999
director: Lindsey Firman
Description : Engineer, Cue-building
A Bird Like Other Birds Theatre 3 1998 ~ 1999
by Marc Gwinn director: Marc Gwinn & David Szlasa
Description : Original Score, Actor-Generated Sound Design, Musical Direction, Musician
A Lie of the Mind NYU Graduate Acting & Design 1999
by Sam Shepard director: Lydia Radzul
Description : Pre-recorded and Live Sound Design, Original Music, Engineer, Musician
A Christmas Carol Thirteenth Street Repertory 1998
by Israel Horowitz director: Matthew Putman
Description : Pre-recorded Sound Design, Original Music, Engineer, Musician
The Sheets / A Brief Excursion Pulse Ensemble Theatre 1998
by John Greiner director: Matthew Putman
Description : Pre-recorded Sound Design, Engineer
Beloved Dearly Lincoln Center Institute 1998
by Doug Cooney director: Elizabeth Swados
Description : Musical Arrangements, Musician
The Possibilities SoHo Repertory Theatre 1998
by Howard Barker director: Lindsey Firman
Description : Actor-Generated Sound Design, Original Music, Musician
streamsoftheunconscious New York University – GAP 1998
by Kamal Sinclair director: Kamal Sinclair
Description : Pre-recorded Sound Design, Original Score, Engineer, Musician
1 n 1 r 1 Experimental Theatre Wing 1997
by Marc Gwinn director: Marc Gwinn
Description : Actor-Generated Sound Design, Original Score, Musician
Skills
  • Ability to artistically design and technically execute theatrical productions
  • Musical Composition, Arrangement, and Performance
  • Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Electric Bass, Piano/Keyboards, Vocals (Bass, Tenor, Rock/Pop, Jazz), Various Percussion, Blues Harp, Throat-Singing, Other Musical Instruments and Experimental Found-Object Techniques
  • Extensive Voice-Over/Character Vocabulary
  • Extensive experience with dramaturgy and story-telling in a theatrical setting
  • Analog and digital recording equipment and techniques
  • Extensive knowledge of small to medium-large sound playback/reinforcement systems
  • Foley Art
Experience
Sound Designer 1997~present - Freelance, New York City
  • Composition/Selection of music
  • Conceptualization/Creation of pre-recorded sound effects
  • Design and acquisition of physical equipment needs
  • Creation of paperwork and media required for live execution of design
Composer/Arranger/Musical Director 1997~present - Freelance, New York City
  • Hamlet – New York Shakespeare Festival/Joseph Papp Public Theatre    Musical Arrangements, Guitar, Percussion, Vocals, Flutes, Recorders, Temple Bowls, Throat Singing, Autoharp, Khaen, Bells    Directed by Andre Serban
  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream – New York University, Graduate Acting & Design    Original Music and Musical Arrangements for found objects & instruments (bottles, propane tanks, air conditioner, ladder, oil drum, guitar, piano, recorder)    Musical Direction and Education
  • The Matchmaker – New York University, Graduate Acting & Design    Barbershop Quartet Arrangements for 4 voices and 16 voices    Soundscape arrangements for found objects, body & instruments (feet, 2x4, paperbag, sheet metal, ladder, tin can, piano, violin)    Musical Direction
Faculty/Consultant/Resident Designer 2000~present - New York University, New York City
  • Teach Theatrical Sound Design to 1st and 2nd year students – Undergraduate Drama
  • Design 3rd Year productions - Graduate Acting & Design
  • Coordinate hiring of additional designers - Graduate Acting & Design
  • Consult on space and equipment needs - Graduate Acting & Design
Training & Education
BFA in Drama - 1997
New York University
Tisch School of the Arts
Honors Scholar (GPA 3.8)
Experimental Theatre Wing, Stella Adler Conservatory, Playwrights Horizons Theatre School
Greenville Technical College - 1992~1994 - General Studies
Chinese Cultural University (Taiwan) - 1988~1989 - Film Studies
Awards & Honors
Nomination for 2000 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Sound Design
Personal Achievments
  • Wrote, composed, directed, and produced an original musical, A Bird Like Other Birds
  • Wrote, composed, directed, and produced an original musical, 1n1r1
  • Wrote and composed 3 additional musicals: Pipe, The Truth of One, Shell
  • Appeared on Broadway in The King & I (1997-1998)
Professional Affiliations
  • Member Actors’ Equity Association (AEA) 1997~present
  • Member American Federation of Television & Radio Artists (AFTRA) 1997~present
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