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Leadership
Director, Americas Region - International Computer Music Association
Associate Director - Ohio University School of Theater
Director, University Theatre - University of California Riverside
Director - International School of Music, Washington DC
Co-Founder, board member, & curator emeritus - JACK, Brooklyn
Industry Experience
Audio Experience Engineer - Boomcloud 360
Independent Sound Designer - 2011 to present
Festivals & Awards
Under the Radar Festival, NYC
Vienna Festwoche, Austria
Without Walls Festival, San Diego
Fringe Festival, Washington DC
International Computer Music Conferences: Urtrecht-Belgium, Seoul-South Korea
Brooklyn International Performance Art Festival
Craig Noel Award for Outstanding Sound Design 2019
First Prize (medaille d'or) with Honors - Conservatoire National de Bolougne, Paris, France
First Prize Coleman Chamber Music Competition
Teaching
Assistant Professor of Sound Design - Ohio University School of Theater
Teaching Artist, Saxophone - Ohio University School of Music
Lecturer of Sound Design - University of California San Diego
Guest Lecturer
Carnegie Mellon School of Theatre
Technische Universitat Dresden
Duke University
Northwestern University
Bowling Green State University
Youngstown State University
Education
Doctor of Music - University Of Maryland
Master of Fine Arts, Sound Design - University of California San Diego
Diplome des Etudes Musicale - CNR Boulogne-Billancourt
Master of Music - University of Florida
Papers
Masters Thesis: Musical Considerations in Interactive Design for Performance
http://escholarship.org/, 2017
AIIS: An Intelligent Improvisational System
The Proceedings of the International Conference on Music and Computation, 2016
Dissertation: The Saxophone Enters the 21st Century: Performance & Composition
http://drum.lib.umd.edu/, 2008
Teaching
Ohio University; 2019 - 2022
TDGR 6390 Creating the Realized Design
TDGR 5371 Theatrical Sound Production (graduate seminar)
TDGR 5370 Theatrical Sound Design (graduate seminar)
TDGR 5319 Stage Electrics
TDGR 5010 Intro to Graduate Studies (Guest Lecturer)
THAR 4900 Audio Production & Composition: Ableton
THAR 4900 Graphical Programming Environments: Pure Data
THAR 4900 Light & Sound: Creative Collaboration (graduate/undergraduate)
THAR 4371 Theatrical Sound Production (undergraduate)
THAR 4370 Theatrical Sound Design (undergraduate)
THAR 2300, 3300, 4300 Practicum in Production Design
THAR 2390 Theatrical Design Skills: The Text and Concept
THAR 1393 Fundamental of Lighting, Sound, and Stage Management
THAR 090 Lunchbag Theater Seminar
Teaching Artist: Saxophone, School of Music
University of California San Diego; 2017 - 2019
TDGR 279 Sound Design Studio (graduate)
TDDE 142 Advanced Sound Design (undergraduate)
TDGR 270 Light & Sound (graduate non-major)
TDPR 6 Sound Design Practicum (undergraduate)
TDDE 1 Introduction to Theatrical Design (undergraduate)
Production Mentor (graduate and undergraduate)
University of California Academic Connections; 2015 - 2017
Audio-Visual: Music’s Role in Art and Film (undergraduate)
Director, Americas Region - International Computer Music Association
Associate Director - Ohio University School of Theater
Director, University Theatre - University of California Riverside
Director - International School of Music, Washington DC
Co-Founder, board member, & curator emeritus - JACK, Brooklyn
Industry Experience
Audio Experience Engineer - Boomcloud 360
Independent Sound Designer - 2011 to present
Festivals & Awards
Under the Radar Festival, NYC
Vienna Festwoche, Austria
Without Walls Festival, San Diego
Fringe Festival, Washington DC
International Computer Music Conferences: Urtrecht-Belgium, Seoul-South Korea
Brooklyn International Performance Art Festival
Craig Noel Award for Outstanding Sound Design 2019
First Prize (medaille d'or) with Honors - Conservatoire National de Bolougne, Paris, France
First Prize Coleman Chamber Music Competition
Teaching
Assistant Professor of Sound Design - Ohio University School of Theater
Teaching Artist, Saxophone - Ohio University School of Music
Lecturer of Sound Design - University of California San Diego
Guest Lecturer
Carnegie Mellon School of Theatre
Technische Universitat Dresden
Duke University
Northwestern University
Bowling Green State University
Youngstown State University
Education
Doctor of Music - University Of Maryland
Master of Fine Arts, Sound Design - University of California San Diego
Diplome des Etudes Musicale - CNR Boulogne-Billancourt
Master of Music - University of Florida
Papers
Masters Thesis: Musical Considerations in Interactive Design for Performance
http://escholarship.org/, 2017
AIIS: An Intelligent Improvisational System
The Proceedings of the International Conference on Music and Computation, 2016
Dissertation: The Saxophone Enters the 21st Century: Performance & Composition
http://drum.lib.umd.edu/, 2008
Teaching
Ohio University; 2019 - 2022
TDGR 6390 Creating the Realized Design
TDGR 5371 Theatrical Sound Production (graduate seminar)
TDGR 5370 Theatrical Sound Design (graduate seminar)
TDGR 5319 Stage Electrics
TDGR 5010 Intro to Graduate Studies (Guest Lecturer)
THAR 4900 Audio Production & Composition: Ableton
THAR 4900 Graphical Programming Environments: Pure Data
THAR 4900 Light & Sound: Creative Collaboration (graduate/undergraduate)
THAR 4371 Theatrical Sound Production (undergraduate)
THAR 4370 Theatrical Sound Design (undergraduate)
THAR 2300, 3300, 4300 Practicum in Production Design
THAR 2390 Theatrical Design Skills: The Text and Concept
THAR 1393 Fundamental of Lighting, Sound, and Stage Management
THAR 090 Lunchbag Theater Seminar
Teaching Artist: Saxophone, School of Music
University of California San Diego; 2017 - 2019
TDGR 279 Sound Design Studio (graduate)
TDDE 142 Advanced Sound Design (undergraduate)
TDGR 270 Light & Sound (graduate non-major)
TDPR 6 Sound Design Practicum (undergraduate)
TDDE 1 Introduction to Theatrical Design (undergraduate)
Production Mentor (graduate and undergraduate)
University of California Academic Connections; 2015 - 2017
Audio-Visual: Music’s Role in Art and Film (undergraduate)
Reviews
The New York Times: Family
The New Yorker Magazine: Family
The New York Times: Quiet, Comfort
Village Voice: Quiet Comfort
culturebot: Quiet, Comfort
The New York Times: Beckett Solos
New York Theater Review: Baal
The New York Times: Shadows
culturebot.org: Shadows
slantmagazine.com: Shadows
Hyperallergic.com: The Georges
The Washington Post: Billy the Kid
dctheaterscene.com: Billy the Kid
The San Fransisco Bay View: The Brothers Size
The San Diego Union Tribune: The Wind and the Breeze
The New York Times: Family
The New Yorker Magazine: Family
The New York Times: Quiet, Comfort
Village Voice: Quiet Comfort
culturebot: Quiet, Comfort
The New York Times: Beckett Solos
New York Theater Review: Baal
The New York Times: Shadows
culturebot.org: Shadows
slantmagazine.com: Shadows
Hyperallergic.com: The Georges
The Washington Post: Billy the Kid
dctheaterscene.com: Billy the Kid
The San Fransisco Bay View: The Brothers Size
The San Diego Union Tribune: The Wind and the Breeze
Theatre Productions
2025 The Dark Heart of Dooley Stevens by Francis Gercke - Backyard Renaissance, San Diego, CA
2025 Macbeth by William Shakespeare - University of California, Riverside, CA
2024 Family by Celine Song - Hoi Polloi Theatre Company, Brooklyn, NYC
2024 Constellations by Nick Payne - Chalk Circle Collective, Light Box Theatre, San Diego, CA
2024 Thelma & Louise: A Dyke Remix by Ella Rose Charry - Diversionary Theatre, San Diego CA
2024 Kairos by Lisa Sanaye Dring - East West Players, Los Angeles, CA
2024 The Master's Tools by Zora Howard - Vienna Festwoche, Austria, Under the Radar Festival, NYC
2024 Requiem by Alec Duffy - Mercury Store Workshop, Brooklyn, NYC
2024 El Milagro del Recuerdo by Leonard Foglia - San Diego Opera, Civic Theatre, San Diego CA
2024 The Little Fellow by Kate Hamill - Cygnet Theatre Company, San Diego, CA
2023 Sharon by Keiko Green - Cygnet Theatre Company, San Diego, CA
2023 The Sins of Sor Juana Ines by Karen Zacarias - American University, DC
2022 Stories of Covid 19 by Charles Smith - Tantrum Theatre Company, Athens Ohio
2022 Life Sucks by Aaron Posner - Cygent Theatre Company, San Diego, CA
2022 Objects in the Mirror by Charles Smith - Tantrum Theatre Company, Athens, OH
2020 The Straights by T. Adamson - JACK, Brooklyn, NYC
2019 Angels in America Pts 1 & 2 by Tony Kushner - Cygnet Theatre Company, San Diego, CA
2019 Funfair by Simon Stephens - California State University, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Every Brilliant Thing by Duncan Macmillan - Cygent Theatre Company, San Diego, CA
2018 Theatre of Music Season Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, Pittsburgh, PA
2018 The Wind and the Breeze by Nathan Davis - Cygnet Theatre Company, San Diego, CA
2018 How to Defend Yourself by Lilly Padilla - UCSD
2018 Mothers by Anna Moench - UCSD
2018 You by Edward Tucker - Hall and Mirrors Productions, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Home by Mimi Lien - La Jolla Playhouse Without Walls Festival, San Diego, CA
2017 Under Construction by Edward Mee - La Jolla Playhouse Without Walls Festival San Diego, CA
2017 Cotton Candy & Cocaine by Ella Rose Chary - Theatre C Productions, Long Island City, NYC
2017 Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett - UCSD
2017 Machinal by Sophie Treadwell - Qualcomm IDEAS Festival, San Diego, Oakland Theatre Project, Oakland, CA
2017 Vieux Carre by Tennessee Williams - UCSD
2016 Angels in America: Perestroika by Tony Kushner - UCSD
2016 Quiet, Comfort by Toshiki Okada - Hoi Polloi Theater Company, JACK, Brooklyn, NYC
2016 Go. Please. Go. by Emily Feldman - UCSD
2016 Precipitate by Anne Gehmann and Erin Tracy - UCSD
2016 Movers & Shakers by Deborah Stein - Holum Stein Productions - UCSD
2016 Exit Cuckoo by Lisa Ramirez - UBUNTU Theatre Project, Oakland CA
2016 Rhinoceros by Eugene Ionesco - UCSD
2015 The Brothers Size by Tarell Alvin McCraney - UBUNTU Theatre Project, Oakland, CA
2015 Translation Play by Emily Feldman - UCSD
2015 Angels in America: Part 1 by Tony Kushner - UCSD
2015 Death of a Driver by William Snider- UCSD
2015 3 Women in 4 Chairs by Emily Feldman - UCSD
2015 Really Fall by Yolande Snaith - UCSD
2014 A Brief History of Japanese Theater, The Georges, JACK, Brooklyn, NYC
2014 WGRG-TV, The Georges, JACK, Brooklyn, NYC
2014 Plato: The Republic by Noah Meese - Hoi Polloi Theatre Company, Brooklyn, NYC, Duke University
2014 Beckett Solos: Cascando, Footfalls, Rockaby by Samuel Beckett - Hoi Polloi Theatre Company, Brooklyn, NYC
2013 Night Blooming Jasmine by Israela Margalit - Theater Under St. Marks, Manhattan, NYC
2013 Alarmed - Dixon Place, Manhattan NYC
2013 The Georges - JACK, Brooklyn NYC, Heaven's Gate, Philadelphia, PA
2013 Outcry by Thais Francis - JACK, Brooklyn, NYC
2012 Baal by Bertolt Brecht - Hoi Polloi Theatre Company, JACK, Brooklyn, NYC
2009 Billy the Kid: First Exhumation - Washington DC Fringe Festival
2025 Macbeth by William Shakespeare - University of California, Riverside, CA
2024 Family by Celine Song - Hoi Polloi Theatre Company, Brooklyn, NYC
2024 Constellations by Nick Payne - Chalk Circle Collective, Light Box Theatre, San Diego, CA
2024 Thelma & Louise: A Dyke Remix by Ella Rose Charry - Diversionary Theatre, San Diego CA
2024 Kairos by Lisa Sanaye Dring - East West Players, Los Angeles, CA
2024 The Master's Tools by Zora Howard - Vienna Festwoche, Austria, Under the Radar Festival, NYC
2024 Requiem by Alec Duffy - Mercury Store Workshop, Brooklyn, NYC
2024 El Milagro del Recuerdo by Leonard Foglia - San Diego Opera, Civic Theatre, San Diego CA
2024 The Little Fellow by Kate Hamill - Cygnet Theatre Company, San Diego, CA
2023 Sharon by Keiko Green - Cygnet Theatre Company, San Diego, CA
2023 The Sins of Sor Juana Ines by Karen Zacarias - American University, DC
2022 Stories of Covid 19 by Charles Smith - Tantrum Theatre Company, Athens Ohio
2022 Life Sucks by Aaron Posner - Cygent Theatre Company, San Diego, CA
2022 Objects in the Mirror by Charles Smith - Tantrum Theatre Company, Athens, OH
2020 The Straights by T. Adamson - JACK, Brooklyn, NYC
2019 Angels in America Pts 1 & 2 by Tony Kushner - Cygnet Theatre Company, San Diego, CA
2019 Funfair by Simon Stephens - California State University, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Every Brilliant Thing by Duncan Macmillan - Cygent Theatre Company, San Diego, CA
2018 Theatre of Music Season Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, Pittsburgh, PA
2018 The Wind and the Breeze by Nathan Davis - Cygnet Theatre Company, San Diego, CA
2018 How to Defend Yourself by Lilly Padilla - UCSD
2018 Mothers by Anna Moench - UCSD
2018 You by Edward Tucker - Hall and Mirrors Productions, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Home by Mimi Lien - La Jolla Playhouse Without Walls Festival, San Diego, CA
2017 Under Construction by Edward Mee - La Jolla Playhouse Without Walls Festival San Diego, CA
2017 Cotton Candy & Cocaine by Ella Rose Chary - Theatre C Productions, Long Island City, NYC
2017 Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett - UCSD
2017 Machinal by Sophie Treadwell - Qualcomm IDEAS Festival, San Diego, Oakland Theatre Project, Oakland, CA
2017 Vieux Carre by Tennessee Williams - UCSD
2016 Angels in America: Perestroika by Tony Kushner - UCSD
2016 Quiet, Comfort by Toshiki Okada - Hoi Polloi Theater Company, JACK, Brooklyn, NYC
2016 Go. Please. Go. by Emily Feldman - UCSD
2016 Precipitate by Anne Gehmann and Erin Tracy - UCSD
2016 Movers & Shakers by Deborah Stein - Holum Stein Productions - UCSD
2016 Exit Cuckoo by Lisa Ramirez - UBUNTU Theatre Project, Oakland CA
2016 Rhinoceros by Eugene Ionesco - UCSD
2015 The Brothers Size by Tarell Alvin McCraney - UBUNTU Theatre Project, Oakland, CA
2015 Translation Play by Emily Feldman - UCSD
2015 Angels in America: Part 1 by Tony Kushner - UCSD
2015 Death of a Driver by William Snider- UCSD
2015 3 Women in 4 Chairs by Emily Feldman - UCSD
2015 Really Fall by Yolande Snaith - UCSD
2014 A Brief History of Japanese Theater, The Georges, JACK, Brooklyn, NYC
2014 WGRG-TV, The Georges, JACK, Brooklyn, NYC
2014 Plato: The Republic by Noah Meese - Hoi Polloi Theatre Company, Brooklyn, NYC, Duke University
2014 Beckett Solos: Cascando, Footfalls, Rockaby by Samuel Beckett - Hoi Polloi Theatre Company, Brooklyn, NYC
2013 Night Blooming Jasmine by Israela Margalit - Theater Under St. Marks, Manhattan, NYC
2013 Alarmed - Dixon Place, Manhattan NYC
2013 The Georges - JACK, Brooklyn NYC, Heaven's Gate, Philadelphia, PA
2013 Outcry by Thais Francis - JACK, Brooklyn, NYC
2012 Baal by Bertolt Brecht - Hoi Polloi Theatre Company, JACK, Brooklyn, NYC
2009 Billy the Kid: First Exhumation - Washington DC Fringe Festival