22/11/23
Working with director Herbie Poole and assistant sound designer Jacob Lin along we created a cast performed foley track for the cast of the radio play version of Its a Wonderful Life. I gave a few tips and a quick workshop and the cast picked it up quickly, with everyone chipping in some great additions to the foley world.
18/11/23
Director and producer Craig Pike's Angels In America was a joy to work on, presented at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre. Great play, great cast and team. The two nights of shows were long and great theatre.
10/07/23
Director Selma Dimitrijevic used a cast of 6 people rotating through 2 parts in this production of one of Shaw's shorter works. Rather than using a fixed score with different people playing each show, I used cues based of groups of variations of ideas, with each cue firing off a random option that included not playing anything. This gave the show a slightly different score to work with the different casting for each show.
13/06/23
Helped implement Michael Laird's design and manage and mix Scott Joplin's opera, Treemonisha, for Volcano Theatre at the Luminato Festival. Its a great piece with a live band onstage that just needed a bit of sonic help to work at the Bluma Appel theatre, a subtle job that helped the audience fully experience the work without getting in the way.
11/06/23
Reworked the original sound design for Jean-Pierre Perreault's 1986 choreography for Citadel + Compagnie for the Luminato Festival. Its a beautiful piece where all the sounds are created by the dancers. I helped design and mix the stage mics to pick up all the footsteps, breaths, vocal sounds and textures that create a fascinating score.
21/03/23
Chelsea Woolley's script was a pleasure to work on, she used broken thoughts and language to create really interesting characters. Mike Payette's direction was clear and detailed. The show didn't need much sound or music but I was happy to be there and add what was needed.
21/11/22
Sound design and music for Pamela Sinha's great new work, New. Director Alan Dilworth smartly directed this show about the Indian community in Winnipeg in the 1970's. Some great writing and chances for music to help set the tone and style for the show.
29/09/22
I helped spatialize Anne Bourne's music for Confluence, at the Bentway as part of an installation. We took her cello and piano tracks and mixed them for a 16 channel immersive system underneath the Gardiner Expressway. Merging the music with the installation and working with the traffic sounds above our heads gave a surprisingly serene and beautiful atmosphere for the work.
21/09/22
Helped out Nova B and composer/performer Ed Hanley by doing a bit of sound design for Nova's excellent dance work at the Bluma Appel theatre. Helping mix in the sound of the dancers and Ed's live tabla, a dj and his recorded music was a total pleasure.
24/08/22
I did the sound design on a modern take of Moliere's The Miser, the amazing Colm Feore was featured along with a stellar cast directed by Antoni Cimolino.
Total pleasure!
The Miser30/07/22
In the pit!
Had the pleasure of playing oud, acoustic and electric guitar for this great new musical in High Park.
Great band and team, lovely writing by Fatuma Adar and great MD with Chris Barillaro.
Dixon Road20/07/22
What a crazy fun experience!
As part of Art in Transit I played banjo on different GO lines as part of a performance project put together by Luminato.
Art in Transit link12/06/22
What an honour and privilege to get to work on this show!
Opening the brand new and beautiful sounding Tom Patterson Theatre, Antoni Cimolino's direction established a dark and beautiful world for Colm Feore and the cast.
I worked on the sound designer, with composer Bert Carriere, making use of the amazing new sound system and NS10 noise floor.
Really enjoyed using 7.1 wavs to create a full surround experience for the audience in that theatre.
Richard III Stratford page18/05/22
Shaw's play is a crazy tour of ideas, but perhaps the most fun and interesting way to get access to some of Shaw's philosophy.
Director Sanjay Talwar got the most of the cast and production for this show, total pleasure to work and watch.
Too True to be Good @ Shaw08/03/22
Cancelled on opening night at the start of the pandemic, Room finally opened at the Grand in London, followed by a run for Mirvish at the Princess of Wales Theatre.
Phew.
Room20/01/22
We rehearsed and teched Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo for Crow's theatre, directed by Rouvan Silogix but were unfortunately shut down by Covid.
This show will open in October of 2022 now. Its a great piece and team, really an interesting view of war, peace, life and death.
Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo28/11/21
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!
Langham Project 