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Steven Brown is a sound
designer and soundscape composer. He is best known for his work as a sound
designer for theatre, having worked globally with many leading theatre
companies, directors and also as Head of Sound for The Royal Exchange
Theatre Company, Manchester , UK. Steven recently curated and designed the
sound design section of Collaborators: Design for Performance exhibition
at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London and was also Sound Design
Project Head for Scenofest at the 2007 Prague Quadrennial. Steven is currently Sound
Design Curator for the Prague Quadrennial 2011, Head of The Sound Design
Working Group for Organisation Internationale des Scénographes,
Techniciens et Architectes de Théâtre (OISTAT), Head of Sound for The
Royal Exchange Theatre Company. Steven was recently
awarded an Honorary Fellowship from Rose Bruford College. As Listen Hear Sound
Projects he explores sound art, sound design, soundscape composition,
phonography and audio ecology through many commissions and projects whilst
working both as a collaborator and in his own right. He has recently
collaborated with Steam Control ('Why Won't You Tell Me?' - National Film
Theatre/ Sassoon Gallery) and was commissioned by Dody Nash (Listening
Shell installation - Victoria & Albert Museum ). | ||
New York sound designs include Happy Now?, Glass Menagerie, Souvenir, Ah, Wilderness!, Long Day’s Journey into Night, Our Country’s Good, Other People’s Money, Measure for Measure, And a Nightingale Sang, From the Mississippi Delta, Search and Destroy, The End of the Day, Playland, and Marisol. His regional designs include productions at Hartford Stage, Centerstage, McCarter Theatre Center, Dallas Theater Center, La Jolla Playhouse, South Coast Repertory, Trinity Repertory Company, Alliance Theatre, Portland Stage Company, Westport Country Playhouse, and Yale Repertory Theatre, among others. David Budries is the international liaison for the United States Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT), chairs the sound design program for the Yale School of Drama, and is a freelance radio and music producer. | ||
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Veronika Vorel is a sound designer and composer based in New York City. She worked as support to Richard Thomas and Steven Brown at the PQ Scenofest in 2003 and 2007, respectively. Primarily involved in new plays, she created sound designs for Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company (Washington, DC), Shakespeare Theatre (Washington, DC), Ford's Theatre (Washington, DC), Amas Musical Theatre (NYC), Yale Repertory Theatre (New Haven, CT), amongst others. She was also on the sound design staff for West Side Story, currently on Broadway. She received training in music composition at the Prague Conservatory of Music, and trained in sound design at the CalArts School of Theatre and Yale School of Drama. Three of her sound designs were nominated for 2010 Helen Hayes awards. |
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Joe has been designing sound since 1981 and teaching at the Carnegie Mellon University School Of Drama since 1999. He has created soundscores for hundreds of productions in resident theaters across the United States, including over eighty designs at the Tony Award winning Alley Theatre in Houston, TX. Noteworthy designs include DANTON’S DEATH (dir. Robert Wilson), THE MYSTERY OF IRMA VEP (dir. Michael Wilson), AMERICAN VAUDEVILLE (dir Anne Bogart), ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA (dir. Vanessa Redgrave), and AFTER THE FALL (dir. Gregory Boyd). He assisted sound artist Hans Peter Kuhn on the design of Robert Wilson’s HAMLET, also mixing the show on the the subsequent tours to Paris, Venice and New York City. Joe has mixed live sound for jazz artists including Dizzy Gillespie, Sarah Vaughan, Sun Ra, and Michael Hedges and created an installation for the John Cage exhibit Rolywholyover at the Menil Collection. In 2005, Joe was awarded the Gold Medal in Sound Design at the World Stage Design international exposition in Toronto. He was invited to curate two exhibitions at the Prague Quadrennial 07: a digital exhibit representing international sound designers and a live installation/performance between sound artists in Prague, New York, San Diego, Paris, London, and San Francisco. At Carnegie Mellon, he serves on the University Education Council and the Faculty Senate Executive Committee. Mr. Pino is a member of USA-829, USITT, and the OISTAT Sound Working Group. Joe holds a B.A. in Theater Arts from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and an M.F.A. in Directing from University of Virginia. | ||
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