Theatre Sound

University of Mississippi Staff Sound Designer

Romeo & Juliet By William Shakespeare

Hazel by (A new work)

Legally Blonde By Heather Hach

Sunday in the Park with George by Stephen Sondheim & James Lapine

Sound Engineer/Playback Operator

Sunday in the Park With George follows the fictionalized life of the French pointillist painter George Seurat and his contemporary artist great-grandson, who is also named George, and their struggles with creating art and leaving a legacy behind them. For Michigan Technological University’s production of Sunday in the Park With George, I worked as A1 and as playback operator.

A Midsummers Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare

Sound Designer- KCACTF Merit in Sound Design Award

When designing the feeling of the forest, I wanted the audience transported into the same forest that the characters were running through. I worked with my team to create a system that placed speakers all around the space, giving me the ability to encapsulate and envelop my audience in the forest world.

Puck and Fairy restoring the Lady Hermia with a magic potion, so that she can be with her true love after she falls asleep pursuing him in the forest.

The fairies coming to to see Puck, who wishes to get close to their Queen Titania. The fairies witness everything that transpires in the forest and are felt all around.

Lord Oberon planting the seed of mischief in Puck. His evil affects the environment around him causing the mood of the forest to change.

With the influence of Puck and Oberon ended over the four lovers, everything is resorted and the magical forest fades away into a pleasant midsummer morning forest.

Fires in the Mirror by Anna Deavere Smith

Co-Sound Designer- KCACTF Merit in Sound Design Award

Written as a collection of monologues performed by one actor, Fires in the Mirror explores both the African American and the Jewish communities’ points of view of the Crown Heights riots of 1991. Michigan Technological University's performance broke the monologues into separate parts and focused on the stories being told rather than who was telling them. I worked as Co-Sound Designer with Lance Cohoon and the Composition Team of Tyler Quinn and Allen Harrison.

Ntozake Shange, played by Jessica Anderson, shares her views on her relationship to place explaining how it plays into her identity as a black woman and a human. She compares how telling the difference between herself, a rock, and a tree in a vast forest relates back to how she identifies herself.

As Letty Collins, played by Marie Miller, recounts her uncle Isaac's holocaust story the audience is surrounded by a transport train. The same train that carried Isaac and his family to the concentration camp leading to Isaac's entire town and family’s death, leaving him as the designated survivor.

Minster Conrad Mohammed, played by David Brown, argues that slavery and the holocaust cannot be compared to one another. As he recounts the three hundred years of abuse that the slaves endeared, the horrors are heard in distant memories.

Richard Green explains the rage that was felt by the rioting kids in the streets and how their building anger seemed to explode overnight like an oil well fire. As he continues his story he explains further on how it seemed unable to stop building intensity.

The Lady of the Slipper by Victor Herbert

Sound Designer

Ohio Light Opera’s 2017 season featured Victor Herbert’s zany musical comedy The Lady of the Slipper. The Lady Of the Slipper is an unusual retelling of the classic Cinderella fairytale. As Cinderella navigates her unfortunate circumstances stepsisters Dollbabia and Freakette cause her nothing but trouble. Wishing to go to the ball she is helped by two fellows named Punks and Spooks who emerge from a cornfield to entice Cinderella into the prince’s arms.

The Fairy Godmother uses her wand to transform a pumpkin into a carriage, pictured above, her wand sound effect was played every time it was in use.

The Fairy Godmother gathers her magic to transform a simple scare crow into a living man named Spooks to help Cinderella on her way.

As cinderella wishes to go to the ball the Fairy Godmother transforms her plain dress into an elegant ball gown.

The Fairy Godmother transforms a pumpkin into a living man named Punks to join Spooks in helping Cinderella to the ball.

The Student Prince by Sigmund Romberg and Dorothy Donnelly.

Sound Designer

Prince Karl-Franz, accompanied by his tutor Dr. Engel and pompous valet Lutz, arrives at Heidelberg University to experience his life away from the Castle he has know his whole life, but finds his studies to be less enticing than a local waitress named Kathie . The Student Prince explores the age-old clash between love and duty when Prince Karl-Franz is summoned back home to the deathbed of his grandfather and ordered to marry Princess Margaret.

The approaching royal horse drawn carriage is heard far off stage right marking Prince Karl-Franz’s arrival into town.

The hysterical Duchess cannot handle the rumors surrounding her daughter. In her state of fright, she is on the verge of fainting and while trying to leave she faints of stage.

H.M.S. Pinafore by Arthur Sullivan and W. S. Gilbert

Sound Designer

Gilbert and Sullivan's H.M.S. Pinafore, or The Lass that Loved a Sailor, is a story of Josephine, the Captain’s daughter, who is in love with able seaman Ralph Rackstraw. Trouble strikes to two lovers when her father has other plans : an advantageous marriage with the exalted Sir Joseph Porter, K.C.B. When the young couple’s elopement is thwarted by cantankerous seaman Dick Deadeye, their happiness hangs on the Little Buttercup and her confession that her baby farming techniques had left something to be desired ... a many years ago.

To bring the large prop bell to life for the encore of Ring the Merry Bell's and to add some comical relief , a large ringing church bell was used for the effect.

To let the audience feel like they were on the boat with the hearty crew of the HMS Pinafore they were surrounded by the sounds of the sea.

The Music Man by Franklin Lacey and Meredith Willson

Sound Engineer/Playback Operator

Primrose by George Grossmith, Jr. and Guy Bolton

Sound Engineer/Playback Operator

Countess Maritza by Emmerich Kalman, Julius Brammer and Alfred Grunwald

Sound Engineer/Playback Operator

The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui by Bertolt Brecht

A dark political satire comedy, written by Bertolt Brecht, compares the rise of Chicago gangsters to the rise of politicos during the playwrights' time and ours. I worked as A2 on Michigan Technological University's 2016 performances of The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui.

Wireless Run Crew Technician.

With the help of Co- RF Techican