About me
I am a Sound Designer, working primarily in Theatre, based in London. I have a background in electronic composition, and experience in designing for film, dance and installations. Collaboration is at the heart of my practice, and I enjoy working with directors and companies to devise and use sound in ways that engage audiences and enhance storytelling.
I am represented by Clare Vidal-Hall Management - for enquiries please contact info@clarevidalhall.com.
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Credits
2023 As Sound Designer:
Death of England: Closing Time | National Theatre: Dorfman | dir. Clint Dyer Felix’s Room | Berliner Ensemble & Komische Oper | dir. Adam Ganz & ScanLab Projects
Richard III | Liverpool Playhouse & Rose Kingston | dir. Adjoa Andoh
Wildfire Road | Sheffield Theatres Playhouse | dir. Laura Keefe
2022 As Sound Designer:
Redemption | The Big House | dir. Maggie Norris
Figures In Extinction [1.0] | Nederlands Dans Theater | Crystal Pite & Simon McBurney
Jekyll & Hyde | National Theatre Schools Touring | dir. Kirsty Housely
2022 As Co-Composer and Co-Sound Designer:
Othello | National Theatre: Lyttleton | dir. Clint Dyer
2021 As Sound Designer:
A Fight Against… (Una Lucha Contra…) | Royal Court | dir. Sam Pritchard
Death Of England: Face To Face | Sky Arts / National Theatre | dir. Clint Dyer
Story Seekers as Composer & Sound Designer | Unicorn Theatre / National Theatre | dir. Justin Audibert
Everything Has Changed | New Diorama Theatre | Rhum & Clay / dir. Julian Spooner
2021 Other credits:
Sound Effects Designer | Get Up, Stand Up! | Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue | dir. Clint Dyer
2020 As Sound Designer:
Michael Kohlhaas | Schaubühne | dir. Simon McBurney & Annabel Arden
Death of England: Delroy | National Theatre: Olivier | dir. Clint Dyer
Where Do We Go Next? | Bunker Theatre | dir. Caitriona Shoobridge
Death of England | National Theatre: Dorfman | dir. Clint Dyer
2019 As Sound Designer:
Little Miss Burden | Bunker Theatre | dir. Debbie Hannan
Clybourne Park | Royal Central School of Speech & Drama | dir. Lindsay Posner
Maggot Moon (Composer & Sound Designer) | Unicorn Theatre | dir. Jesse Jones
I’ll Take You To Mrs Cole! | dir. Catherine Alexander / Complicité
The Last of The Pelican Daughters | The Wardrobe Ensemble / Complicité
Box Clever | Bunker Theatre | dir. Stef O’Driscoll
Killymuck | Bunker Theatre | dir. Caitriona Shoobridge
War Of The Worlds | Rhum & Clay
2019 Other credits:
Associate SD (w/ Tom Gibbons) | Pah-La | Royal Court | dir. Debbie Hannan
2018 As Sound Designer:
Treasure & Tat | Joel O'Donohughe Company
Southwestern | Tobacco Factory Bristol | The Wardrobe Ensemble
Isaac Came Home From the Mountain | Theatre 503 | dir. Carla Kingham
When the Rain Stops Falling | Royal Central School of Speech & Drama | dir. Eric Loren
So Many Reasons | Fuel Theatre
Of Mice and Men | Selladoor
2018 Other credits:
Associate SD (w/ Helen Skiera) | I'm Afraid of Amerikans | Royal Central School of Speech & Drama | dir. Sue Dunderdale
2017 As Sound Designer:
Wind in The Willows | The Wardrobe Ensemble
Education Education Education | The Wardrobe Ensemble
The Road Awaits Us | Annie B Parson
Prurience | dir. Christopher Green & Holly Race Roughan
ENO Opera Works | dir. Martin Constantine
The Visitor | Trikhon Theatre
2017 Other credits:
Associate SD (w/ Gareth Fry) | Wings | Young Vic | dir. Natalie Abrahami
Associate SD (w/ Pete Malkin) | The Kid Stays In The Picture | Royal Court | Complicite
2016 As Sound Designer:
Seen And Not Heard | Complicite
Measure of Fidget | Joel O'Donohughe Company
10,000 Smarties | dir. Alice Malin
Digs | Theatre With Legs
In Tents and Purposes | Viscera Theatre
Best Served Cold | dir. Holly Race Roughan
2016 Other credits:
Sound Operator | The Encounter | Complicite
Associate SD (w/ Nick Powell) | The Tempest | dir. William Gallinsky
Associate SD (w/ Gareth Fry) | BOY | dir. Sacha Wares
2015 As Sound Designer:
Unmasked | Acheulian Theatre
The Low Road | dir. Holly Race Roughan
Push (Composer & Sound Designer) | dir. Catherine Alexander & Grainne Byrne
Most Certainly Well Worth Knowing | dir. Jayne Port
2015 Other credits:
Associate SD (w/ Pete Malkin) | Beware of Pity | Complicite
Associate SD (w/ Dominic Kennedy) | Run | Edinburgh 2015 Tour | Engineer Theatre
Assistant SD (w/ Gareth Fry) | The Hudsucker Proxy | dir. Toby Sedgwick & Simon Dormandy
2014 As Sound Designer:
Lady Windermere's Fan | dir. Tim Hardy
A Dream From A Bombshell (Composer & Sound Designer) | dir. Anna Nguyen
Talking In Bed | dir. Rosemary Maltezos
Too Far Right (Composer & Sound Designer) | dir. Tyrone Purling
The Good Person of Setzuan | dir. Nancy Meckler
2013 As Sound Designer:
Hamlet | dir. Kelly Hunter
PACE for Accidental Festival | Camden Roundhouse | Meera Osborne
Metamorphosis (Composer & Sound Designer) | Merchant's Hall, Resuscitate Theatre | dir. Anna Marshall
Commercial:
2015 Composer | PUMA X BAPE AW15 Promo Adverts
Film:
2019 Composer & Sound Designer | Warmer | dir. Rosemary Maltezos
Radio:
2014-2016 Radio Presenter | Sonic Diversions | Roundhouse Radio
2013 Radio Producer | Traders | Roundhouse Radio | dir. Tara O'Malley
Education: The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, London
BA Hons Theatre Practice: Theatre Sound (Grad. 2015)
Othello
🔉 Co-Sound Design with Pete Malkin.
🎻 Composition: Benjamin Grant, Pete Malkin, Sola Akingbola.
📝 William Shakespeare.
📍National Theatre: Lyttleton
🗓 November 2022.
🎻 Composition: Benjamin Grant, Pete Malkin, Sola Akingbola.
📝 William Shakespeare.
📍National Theatre: Lyttleton
🗓 November 2022.
Director: Clint Dyer
Set Designer: Chloe Lamford
Costume Designer: Michael Vale
Lighting Designer: Jai Morjaria
Movement Director: Lucie Pankhurst
Video Designers: Gino Ricardo Green & Nina Dunn
Set Designer: Chloe Lamford
Costume Designer: Michael Vale
Lighting Designer: Jai Morjaria
Movement Director: Lucie Pankhurst
Video Designers: Gino Ricardo Green & Nina Dunn
“A bright, headstrong daughter of a senator; elevated by her status but stifled by its expectations. A refugee of slavery; having risen to the top of a white world, he finds that love across racial lines has a cost. Wed in secret, Desdemona and Othello crave a new life together. But as unseen forces conspire against them, they find their future is not theirs to decide.”
“Dyer’s production is crisp, original and brutal, with strikingly sinister choreography from Lucie Pankhurst and magnificently doomy sound design and composition from Benjamin Grant”
Andrzej Lukowski, TimeOut
“Hilton’s Iago ... hates his wife and believes Othello has seduced her. It eats him up and the chorus, leaning forward on the bleachers that surround the stage, egg him on, moving in sharp agreement to Pete Malikin and Benjamin Grant’s terrifying metallic soundscape”
Sarah Crompton, WhatsOnStage
Felix’s Room
📝Written by Adam Ganz.
📍Berliner Ensemble/Komische Oper Berlin
🗓June 2023.
📍Berliner Ensemble/Komische Oper Berlin
🗓June 2023.
Directed by: Adam Ganz & ScanLab Projects
Conductor: Christoph Breidler
Composer: Tonia Ko
Conductor: Christoph Breidler
Composer: Tonia Ko
“This historical drama, which reconstructs the life stories of Felix Ganz and his wife Erna on the basis of archive sources, develops new digital narrative forms at the interface of theatre, music and technical innovation. With the help of projected holographic effects and stage sets from high-resolution 3D scans, the audience is transported into the life of Felix Ganz, who was taken to a so-called "Judenhaus" in 1942 and looks back on his past in letters and contemporary documents. The sophisticated hologram technology makes it possible to experience real places, journeys and memories on stage..“
Figures in Extinction [1.0]
📝 Choreographed by Crystal Pite
📍Nederlands Dans Theater.
🗓 May 2022.
📍Nederlands Dans Theater.
🗓 May 2022.
Composer: Owen Belton
Designer: Jay Gower Taylor
Designer: Jay Gower Taylor
“We are living in an age of extinction: of animals, of language, of our connection with nature and of age-old ways of knowing. Can we ever hope to give a name to what we are losing? What does it mean to bear witness to a violence in which we are both perpetrators and victims?
Across continents, choreographer Crystal Pite and director Simon McBurney have exchanged ideas reflecting on their fears and cautious hopes for the age we are living in, and how artists can meaningfully create in the face of mass destruction.“
Jekyll & Hyde
📝 Adapted by Evan Placey.
📍National Theatre Schools Touring
🗓 January 2022.
📍National Theatre Schools Touring
🗓 January 2022.
Director: Kirsty Housley
Set & Costume Designer: Amanda Stoodley
Lighting Designer: Joshua Pharo
Set & Costume Designer: Amanda Stoodley
Lighting Designer: Joshua Pharo
“Specially adapted in a new version for schools touring, Jekyll & Hyde is a radical re-imagining by playwright Evan Placey of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale, directed by Kirsty Housley. In a mash up of Victorian England and the modern day, this story explores how the repression of female voices is as prevalent in the 19th century as it is today.
The story centres around two new protagonists—Hattie, Jekyll’s widow, and Flossie, a young blogger in the 21st century. As we see these new narratives unfold, the audience are confronted by the power the internet holds to the unleash our own inner Hydes.”