SOUND DESIGNER

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THEATRICAL SOUND

THEATRICAL SOUND DESIGNS ACT Theatre Le Petomane, Flying Karamazov Brothers, February 94 (Assistant designer to Steve Klein) AHA! Theatre Bent, May 94 Tiny Dimes, May 93 Alice B. Theatre Walking the Dead, April 95 Holiday Survival Game Show, December 94, (co-designed with Steve Klein) Annex Theatre Airsick, January 95 Houses Burning, February 93 Agnes de Castro, July 92 Center Stage Theatre The Good Doctor, April 96 also provided additional sound for June Bride, September 97 Empty Space Theatre Pants On Fire, January 96 (co-designed with Steve Klein) Exchange Theatre Henry V, May 2001 Flying Karamazov Brothers/Freehold Theatre Colette, April 93 Greek Active Theatre Contributing designer for Mourning Becomes Electra, August 94 Group Theatre Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill, June 94 (Co-designed with Dave Pascal) Harbinger Theatre Broad Humor, October 97 Intiman Theatre Hayfever, July 94 Langston Hughes Cultural Arts Center I'm Not Rappaport, March 99 Two Trains Running, January 98

Northwest Asian American Theatre Traces (multimedia dance performance), May 2000 West Side Story, January 99 Flipzoids, September 98 Janie Bigo, May 97 12-1-A, October 95 Uncle Hideki, March 95 FOB, October 94 Letters to a Student Revolutionary, June 94 And the Soul Shall Dance, October 93 Please Choose One, March 93 (Assistant designer to Steve Klein) PC Theatre Bondage, December 93 Seattle Children's Theatre The Rememberer, March 94 (Assistant designer to Steve Klein) also performed early instruments for Steve Klein's sound design of The Witch of Blackbird Pond, February 97 Seattle Repertory Theatre PONCHO Theatre: Neat, May 96 Outreach Program at Cleveland High School: Truth or Deception, March 95 Seattle Shakespeare Company Romeo & Juliet, February 99 Utah Shakespearean Festival A Midsummer Night's Dream, King Lear, Troilus & Cressida, Summer 99 (Tony-award-winning season) The Taming of the Shrew, All's Well That Ends Well, King John, Summer 98 MUSIC DIRECTOR Seattle Shakespeare Company Richard II, February 2002 Wooden O Theatre The Winter's Tale, July 2002 COMPOSER Seattle Children's Theatre Just So and Other Stories, April 94 Into the Shadow Multimedia Video and Dance Project, Jackson WY, August 91

FILM SOUND

Co-Sound Designer, Arctic Dance: The Mardy Murie Story (documentary), Airwaves Sound Design, Vancouver, BC. Spring 2000

Assistant to Sound Effects Editor, Arctic Dance: The Mardy Murie Story (documentary), Airwaves Sound Design, Vancouver, BC. Spring 2000

Assistant to Sound Effects Editor, Marine Life (feature), Airwaves Sound Design, Vancouver, BC. Winter 2000

Recording Studio Internship for soundscape composer Hildegard Westerkamp (working on the score for a National Film Board of Canada documentary film) Vancouver, BC. Summer 83

PERSONAL STUDIO HIGHLIGHTS

• Digital and analog sound recording, editing, and mixing
• Macintosh workstation with Digidesign's ProTools digital editing software
• Digital sampler
• Minidisc, DAT, multi-track reel-to-reel and cassette tape decks, turntables (78s & LPs)
• MIDI keyboard and music notation software

SPECIAL INTERESTS IN SOUND DESIGN

• Soundscapes
• Mixing ambient sounds/sound effects to compose new sound textures and create environments
• Using voice and speech as sound textures
• Researching, and sometimes even combining, time periods and genres of music

MUSIC SKILLS

Composition, particularly new music for early instruments or small vocal ensembles

Performance: flutes, recorders, viola da gamba, voice. Currently perform in an a capella singing ensemble, and have performed with other semi-professional vocal and instrumental early music ensembles since 1984

Teaching: flute, recorder, voice, music history. Taught Shakespearean music history and performance to middle school students at Seattle Shakespeare Festival's "Camp Bill", August 2001 and July 2002. Have taught Rounds Singing workshops since 1988.

EDUCATION & TRAINING

Film Scoring I, with composer Hummie Mann, Pacific Northwest Film Scoring Program, Seattle WA. Studied an overview of the process of writing dramatic music for motion pictures, television and videos. Fall 2002.

Production Intern, Glenn Sound Studio, Seattle, WA. Assisted in radio and music production and post-production, including digital sound editing. February - May, 1999.

Audio Production Certificate Program, University of Washington Extension, Seattle, WA. Completed one-year certificate program in music recording and digital audio for video production. 98-99

Recording Studio Engineer,Crow Recording Studios, Seattle, WA. Completed 12-week practical certificate course in 24-track analog recording. Summer 91

Master of Library Science, School of Library and Information Science, The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., December 86. Major: Music Librarianship.

Bachelor of Arts, Bennington College, Bennington, VT, June 84.
Major: Music (Composition, Early Music, Flute).
Minor: English Literature (16th-18th Century Drama).
Junior Year Abroad at Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Oxford, England.

Production Assistant Internship, Voice of America Radio, Washington D.C. Winter 84

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