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Life
Independent Sound Designer & Composer
Co-Founder & Curator emeritus - JACK Arts, jackny.org
Director, Americas Region - International Computer Music Association computermusic.org
Social Media Lead - International Computer Music Association
Assistant Professor, Head of Sound Design - Ohio University School of Theater
Lecturer of Sound Design - University of California San Diego
Teaching Artist, Saxophone - Ohio University School of Music
Audio Experience Engineer - Boomcloud 360
Director, University Theatre - University of California Riverside
Associate Director - Ohio University School of Theater
Director - International School of Music, Washington DC
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, Boston-USA, Hamburg-Germany
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
Guest Lecturer: Carnegie Mellon School of Theatre, Technische Universitat Dresden, Duke University, Northwestern University, Bowling Green State University, Youngstown State University
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
Training
University of Maryland - Doctor of Music
University of California San Diego - Master of Sound Design
Conservatoire Nationale de Region Boulogne-Billancourt - Premiere Prix a l'unanimté
Independent Sound Designer & Composer
Co-Founder & Curator emeritus - JACK Arts, jackny.org
Director, Americas Region - International Computer Music Association computermusic.org
Social Media Lead - International Computer Music Association
Assistant Professor, Head of Sound Design - Ohio University School of Theater
Lecturer of Sound Design - University of California San Diego
Teaching Artist, Saxophone - Ohio University School of Music
Audio Experience Engineer - Boomcloud 360
Director, University Theatre - University of California Riverside
Associate Director - Ohio University School of Theater
Director - International School of Music, Washington DC
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, Boston-USA, Hamburg-Germany
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
Guest Lecturer: Carnegie Mellon School of Theatre, Technische Universitat Dresden, Duke University, Northwestern University, Bowling Green State University, Youngstown State University
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
Training
University of Maryland - Doctor of Music
University of California San Diego - Master of Sound Design
Conservatoire Nationale de Region Boulogne-Billancourt - Premiere Prix a l'unanimté
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
(* denotes premiere)
2027 The End of the Moment We Had by Toshiki Okada, Hoi Polloi Theatre Company @ La Mama & Japan Society, NYC
2027 The Master's Tools by Zora Howard, The Flea (Under the Radar Festival), NYC
2026 The Seafarer by Conor McPherson, Backyard Rennaissance, San Diego, CA
2026 Job by Max Wolf Friedlich, Cygnet Theatre, San Diego, CA
2026 Crave by Sarah Kane, Hoi Polloi Theatre Company, Manhattan, NYC
2025 The Strangers by Christopher Oscar Pena, Chalk Circle Collective, San Diego, CA
2025 Inherit the Wind by Lawrence & Lee, Tantrum Theatre Company, Athens, OH
2025 Family by Celine Song - Hoi Polloi Theatre Company @ La Mama, Manhattan, NYC
2025 A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams - Backyard Renaissance, San Diego, CA
2025 Winning is Winning, Hoi Polloi Theatre Company, Brooklyn, NYC*
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*
2027 The Master's Tools by Zora Howard, The Flea (Under the Radar Festival), NYC
2026 The Seafarer by Conor McPherson, Backyard Rennaissance, San Diego, CA
2026 Job by Max Wolf Friedlich, Cygnet Theatre, San Diego, CA
2026 Crave by Sarah Kane, Hoi Polloi Theatre Company, Manhattan, NYC
2025 The Strangers by Christopher Oscar Pena, Chalk Circle Collective, San Diego, CA
2025 Inherit the Wind by Lawrence & Lee, Tantrum Theatre Company, Athens, OH
2025 Family by Celine Song - Hoi Polloi Theatre Company @ La Mama, Manhattan, NYC
2025 A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams - Backyard Renaissance, San Diego, CA
2025 Winning is Winning, Hoi Polloi Theatre Company, Brooklyn, NYC*
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*