Recent Plays
The Importance of Being Earnest
Directed by Stephen Pick Produced by Valley Repertory theater 2015 Sound Design |
The wittiness and pace of "Earnest" create a comic environment familiar to our modern day sitcoms. To keep the audience engaged in the lofty text I decided to adapt a stylistic "sitcom" approach. This created an immediate sense of familiarity with the play and allows the actors to play the joke more stylistically as well. A couple sound elements used to bring out the humor of the play were a theme song like that of a TV show and a laugh track that played on a characters first entrance. The laugh track also supported the audience laughter as a hot key.
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Fiddler on a Roof
Directed by Scott Hamilton Produced by Ridgefield Highschool 2015 Set Design/ Light Design |
Fiddler on a Roof was an opportunity to experiment with the mixture of sound and lighting design. I wanted to create a set that would be dynamic enough to capture the many different settings and moments of the play. Using Muslin I create a large Framed "Canvas" and built a two dimensional masonite structure and attached it to the back of the frame. The effect is when projected from the back the image of a house appear and when the back light is out we have a flat surface to project on from the front. using the rgb spectrum on the front back and cyc, I had full control of which colors appeared where and when.
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All My Sons
Directed by Stephen Pick Produced by Valley Repertory Theater 2015 Sound Design |
When I read this play it seems to me that the world is built on sand. That is to say that the characters lives could at any point fall into chaos. This uneasiness is juxtaposed by the characters own denial, allowing them to live in a paradise. This play, being an Arthur Miller play written and produced in the 40’s, evoked a classic Hollywood sensation when reading it, which perfectly parallels the image of faux “Beauty” the Keller’s are trying to maintain. For this reason I decided to sonically create a classic cinema design to highlight both the era that it was written, but to also heighten the sense of fantasy that Kate and Joe have come accustomed to. As the play develops the classical music used will become more chaotic and distorted until the moment of the truth being revealed and we see a new world. Not a world of beauty perfection and fantasy but the world as it actually is.
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Macbeth
Directed by Katherine Produced by Ridgefield School District/ Portland Playhouse 2014 Light Design |
This was the Ridgefield Auditoriums debut so we wanted to create an amazing experience for the audience. hanging off the batons were for 30ft strips of muslin light from the front and back with amber and blood red. depending on the intensity of the scene the entire stage would get more covered in "blood" and subsequently be lit with more red. the cyc in the back as well as LED surrounding the audience made for a great blood effect.
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Sizwe Bansi is Dead
Directed by Micheal Ofari Produced by Arts West 2014 Sound Design *Remounted in 2015 |
This Play takes place in South Africa, so I used south african music to both score the piece and punctuate particular scenes. This particular clip begins with a dance piece on stage which fades into a narration from the protagonist. As this fade happens the environment surrounding the audience changes to the ambience of a South African bar to prepare for the actors back of the house entrance for the next scene.
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Klauzal Square
Directed by Aurora Held Produced by Ohio University 2013 Sound Design *New play |
This play takes place over several different time periods and includes a lot of time travel to switch between locations. The first sample is the theme of the ghost as she walks on stage turning the environment into a cavernous realm and then the "flashback sound which takes them to Klauzal Square, Hungry 1931
The second sound is a flash back to the ghostly realm where Agi the ghost of a young girl resides The last sound is a mix of voices over and design in which the voice of the ghost can be heard onstage through a cellphone. |
Willy Wonka
Directed by Rebecca VerNooy Produced by Ohio Valley Summer Theater 2013 Sound Design |
Willy Wonka is a children's musical based off of the famous Roald Dahl novel. As a musical the environments were constant in flux with the music and some had music built into the environment itself.
The first is the unveiling of the factory interior which has the chocolate river flowing through it. I wanted to create a "Chuckie Cheese" experience so I created a Willy Wonka factory that has a casino feel in its design. the second sample is the Bubble gum room in which a large machine spits out gum-balls. Music was built into the way this machine operates. I believe it worked very well with the beautiful choreography of Emily Penick onstage. The third sound is the fizzy bubble room, a combination of computed beeps and bubbles. Last the notorious Glass Elevator which read wonderfully onstage |
International Music
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Live recording of Russian folk singer Vladimir Marchenkov
Live recording of Indian chanting and singing
Live recording of Ghanaian drummer Micheal Ofari
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