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CV

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
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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
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The New York Times: Family
The New Yorker Magazine: Family
The New York Times: Quiet, Comfort
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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
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The Washington Post: Billy the Kid
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dctheaterscene.com: Billy the Kid
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The San Fransisco Bay View: The Brothers Size
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​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

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