While We Wait
A new play by Charly Evon Simpson.

While We Wait was directed by Jordana De La Cruz and performed at The New School School of Drama from March 9-11, 2023.

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
A coming-of-age story by Mark Haddon, adapted by Simon Stephens.

This production done in consultation with Adelphi’s Bridges program in order to provide a space for neurodivergent theatre-makers to accurately portray their own lives and experiences. The sound design focused on the themes of chaos and order: creating chaos during moments of intense stimulation, and order during times of peace and stability.

Curious Incident was directed by Maggie Lally and performed at Adelphi University from November 1-6, 2022.

Dance Nation
An exploration of childhood by Clare Barron

Juxtaposing gentle tones with hypersexual electronic beats, this sound design aimed to encapsulate the emotional intensity experienced by the preteens of Dance Nation as they fought their way to the top of the pyramid.

Dance Nation was directed by Sanaz Ghajar and performed at Fordham University from October 6-14, 2022.

Marie It’s Time
An erotically violent dialogue with Woyzeck by Julia Jarcho.

New York Times Critic’s Pick!
“shrill and rhythmic and weirdly funny” - The New Yorker

The sound design was a collaboration with Ben Williams, consisting of siren-like baby screams, intense pulsing atmospheres, and hypersexual club music, as well as live support for original songs by Jeff Aaron Bryant.

Marie It’s Time was directed by Ásta Bennie Hostetter and performed at HERE Arts Center from September 7 - October 1, 2022.

MY COUSIN NELU IS NOT GAY
A new play by Diana Lobontiu.

Through a playful combination of heavily textured surreal soundscapes and mid-2000s Europop, the sound design of this show created a semi-autobiographical world in which the playwright reimagined her Romanian as being gay, just like herself - and faced the consequences of forcing a story onto a real person. Many characters were represented solely through voiceover, which blended with the rest of the design to create a dreamlike experience that slowly turned into a nightmare as the playwright and her cousin wrestled for control of the story.

MY COUSIN NELU IS NOT GAY was directed by elissa goetschius and performed at Ars Nova on June 14, 2022 as a part of ANT FEST 2022.

Constellations
A tragedy surpassing the limits of physics.

Using a fully-composed score of synths and drums, the sound design of Constellations by Nick Payne tells the story of two people who meet, over and over again, in an infinite number of universes, and do their best to fall in love despite every obstacle the cosmos throws their way.

Constellations was directed by Carol Ann Tan and performed at the Pell Chafee Performance Center from March 3-10, 2022.

Everybody
A morality play, of sorts.

This production of Brendan Jacob Jenkins’ Everybody featured an eclectic sound design of voiceover, experimental music, and dramatic rumbles cut off by hilariously jarring buzzers and record scratches.

Everybody was directed by JaMario Stills and performed at the Pell Chafee Performance Center from March 3-10, 2022.

Cries and Whispers
An online adaptation of Ingmar Bergman's film Cries and Whispers by Genevieve Fowler.

The sound design for this piece explores the connection between the isolation each of the central female characters experiences and the isolation the entire world has been facing during the COVID-19 Pandemic. The ambient sound of the actors’ rooms and breathing has been amplified and warped until it swallows them whole.

The design utilizes an ethereal blend of sound, composition by Jeonghyeon Joo, and text in both English and Korean, to create both a constant feeling of suffocation and moments of dramatic, airy contrast.

Cries and Whispers was performed by CalArts Center for New Performance at an online work-in-progress showing on February 19-20, 2021 in partnership with Arts Council of Korea. A more complete online showing will be performed in May 2021, followed by an in-person showing in Fall 2021.

Pass: The Musical
A new musical by composer Socks Whitmore and directed by Jason Pollack.

Pass: The Musical had a staged reading on January 24, 2020 in the Coffeehouse Theater as a part of CalArts WinterLab. A full performance was scheduled for April 18, 2020 in the ROD Concert Hall at CalArts, but was cancelled due to COVID-19.

Machinal
A CalArts School of Theatre Production directed by Genevieve Fowler.
Design Documentation

Machinal tells the story of a young woman who struggles to keep up with society and capitalism's expectations of women in a post-industrial world. Throughout the piece, constant atmosphere composed of a combination of machinery, wind, and recorded audio of planets creates an unrelenting sense of pressure. 

The sound design pulls in the experiences of a variety of women throughout the piece, utilizing punk and metal music sung by transgender women during the transitions to underscore video representations of the young woman's internal rebellion.

The turning point of the piece, a tryst with a man from Mexico, is punctuated with a street performer singing the traditional Mexican ballad Cielito Lindo. In this design, the song is sung by a voice synthesizer, juxtaposing the constant alienation the young woman had been experiencing with a romanticization of the pressures society has put on her. 

Machinal was performed in CalArts's Ensemble Studio Theatre I from December 4-11, 2019.

Much Ado About Nothing
A CalArts School of Theatre Production
Design Documentation

I was the Sound Designer on the CalArts production of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, directed by Damien D. Lewis.

Much Ado About Nothing was performed in CalArts's Coffeehouse Theatre from November 30-December 4, 2018.

The Mousetrap
A Scotch'n'Soda Theatre Production

I was the Sound Designer for Scotch'n'Soda Theatre's production of Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap, directed by Tam Walters and Kai Huizenga.

The Mousetrap went up in the Carnegie Mellon Studio Theatre on February 16-17, 2018.