I had the pleasure to work with 4 young directors over a week to create showings as part of Stratford's Langham Director's Workshop. Sadie Epstein-Fine Marie Farsi Christine Horne Sara Jarvie-Clark Lots of great ideas and pieces!
Working with director Mumbi Tindebwa Otu and the great actor Alison Sealy-Smith we created a live binaural radio drama. We blocked the reading around my dummy head microphone, and with assistant Jacob Lin we created a mix of live foley and sound effects and music that helped bring Lisa Codrington's play about a woman's life growing up in Barbados.
Working with choreographer Laurence Lemiuex, I created a 10 channel surround sound design based on Bach's two part inventions. Including an arrangement of Contrapuntal #1 Citadel + Compagnie web page
Director Paul Lambert created an audio podcast version of Anna Chatterton's play, Switched. I worked to record, edit, mix and produce the podcast/show. Using binaural foley and effects the piece has a lovely, fun feel.
Produced in a tent in the parking lot of the unused as yet, brand new, Tom Patterson theatre, Serving Elizabeth was a lovely experience. Under the direction of Kimberely Rampersad and composer Deb Sinha, we created a lovely show about colonialism and the Queen.
Made a quick trip out to do music and sound design for Sexy Laundry at the Thousand Island Playhouse. With Director Krista Jackson we had a lot of fun creating a world for this show. Including making a fake radio rock tune called 'Jello Baby' for the show and the excellent Sarah Dodd and Shawn Wright.
We somehow managed to get the second Sherlock Holmes show up and running at the Shaw Festival! With director Craig Hall and a great design team we rehearsed mostly on zoom until we were allowed full rehearsals outside at the Shaw Festival. The show was presented inside, and we teched the show with a couple of hundred sound cues without seeing a full run. The show was great, it ran under half capacity to good audiences and we hit a window in the pandemic when this was possible.
