Sound Designer – Artists Repertory Theatre

Annalise Albright Woods

Casey Landreth — Fri, 15 Nov 2019 22:20:23 +0000

Annalise Albright Woods (Sound Design, she/her/hers) is thrilled to be working on her first production with Artists Rep. Favorite Portland area design credits include Salt, Head, Hands, Feet (Drammy Award), Miss Julie, and The Masque of the Red Death with Shaking the Tree; Passion Play with Shaking the Tree and Profile Theatre; Dear Galileo with Playwrights West; Pool (no water) (Drammy Award), The Sexual Neurosis of Our Parents, and The Long Christmas Ride Home with Theatre Vertigo; Luna Gale and Crooked for Coho Productions, Locomotion and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory for Oregon Children’s Theatre; Mimesophobia for Sand and Glass Productions; and Find Me Beside You, Mutt, and Restroom, for Many Hats Collaboration. Annalise received an MFA in sound design from the California Institute of the Arts and an MS in Educational Leadership from Portland State University. Love to Jeff and Oliver.

Ash

Aki Ruiz — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 01:30:19 +0000

Ash (they/she) is an active composer, choral arranger, songwriter, sound designer, and music director for choir and theatre. As a queer, non-binary, Persian, and hard-of-hearing artist, she values storytelling as a means of connection, revelation, and celebration. Their theatrical credits for music direction and sound design include productions with Portland Center Stage (Dracula: a Feminist Revenge Fantasy, Really; Choir Boy; tick, tick… BOOM!; Hedwig and the Angry Inch; Macbeth), Between Us Theatre Co. (EGG; Velvet Rage; Texas Gothic), SpeakEasy Stage (English), Lower East Side Shakespeare Co. (The Words Will Come; BEE), Fuse Theatre Ensemble (Crumbs, Magnetic Electric), Oregon Children’s Theatre, Corrib Theatre, Jewish Theatre Collaborative, Milagro Theatre (2015 Drammy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Original Music for ¡O Romeo!), Post5 Theatre, and Portland Actors Ensemble (2012 Outdoor Shakespeare Festival Award for Best Sound Design for Twelfth Night). As a composer and writer, they are currently developing Crumbs (musical), Move-Bend-Fall (collection of short plays), Magnetic Electric (play with music), and other projects. Ash is the former artistic director of Transpose PDX, a non-profit choral arts organization serving the trans community, and her choral works and arrangements have been performed by various choirs across the country. They grew up in Portland, OR and currently reside in NYC. www.MusicByAsh.com

Doug Newell

LC Dawes — Wed, 25 Nov 2020 18:59:04 +0000

Bio coming soon.

Ed Littlefield

Casey Landreth — Fri, 15 Nov 2019 22:18:54 +0000

Ed is a freelance percussionist, educator and composer based out of Seattle, WA. He is Tlingit from Sitka, Alaska and has released three albums featuring traditional native melodies with the Native Jazz Quartet called Walking Between Worlds, NJQ: Stories and most recently NJQ: Southeast: Northwest. Ed has played K’alyaan in the premiere of Battles of Fire and Water and written and performed an original score for Eurydice for Perseverance Theatre in Juneau, Alaska. He has done sound design and composition for the World Premieres of Our Voices Will Be Heard and composition and cultural advisor for They Don’t Talk Back at Native Voices at the Autry, La Jolla Playhouse and Perseverance Theatre. Most recently he was the composer and sound designer for Off the Rails at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and Sovereignty at Arena Stage.

Em Gustason

Casey Landreth — Fri, 15 Nov 2019 22:18:20 +0000

Recent credits include: Designer, Headwig and the Angry Inch, Portland Center Stage. Head Audio, Bandstand, and Rodger and Hammerstein’s Cinderella, National Tours. Previous design work in Portland includes The Language Archive with Portland Playhouse, Mary’s Wedding with Portland Center Stage, and Marjorie Prime with Artists Repertory Theatre. Proud member of IATSE Local 28.

Leslie Crandell Dawes

LC Dawes — Wed, 01 Jul 2020 19:56:14 +0000

Leslie Crandell Dawes (she/her) is the Communications and Marketing Director at Artists Repertory Theatre as well as a sound designer, sound engineer, live board operator, and set designer. A California native, she has hopped back and forth between the coasts, but now calls Portland, Oregon home. Her favorite productions include, Rent, Next to Normal, Steel Magnolias, Peter and the Starcatcher, Jesus Christ Superstar, The Importance of Being Earnest, and Honk, Jr. (Theatre in the Grove). When she’s not working or designing sound, you can find her making jewelry, gardening, chasing after her four kids, running, or hiking.

Matt Wiens

Casey Landreth — Tue, 03 Mar 2020 21:37:59 +0000

Matt is a Portland-based composer and sound designer and is delighted to be collaborating with ART and Profile Theater. Recent work includes The Baltimore Waltz, Well, and Let Me Down Easy with Profile Theater; The Bakkhai and Escaped Alone with Shaking The Tree Theater; MALA with CoHo Theater, and Crowns with Portland Playhouse. Matt holds a BA in Theater from Goshen College and a Masters in Music Technology from NYU.

Phil Johnson

Casey Landreth — Fri, 15 Nov 2019 22:16:49 +0000

Phil Johnson (Sound Designer) is a painter and theatrical artist based in Portland Oregon. His recent productions include An Octoroon (Artists Repertory Theatre), Hands Up (Red Door Project), Elliot a Soldiers Fugue, The Antigone Project, A Lady Onstage (Profile Theater), Worse Than Tigers (ACT Theater/Red Stage), Contigo Pan y Cebolla (Milagro Theater), All My Sons and The Importance of Being Earnest (Valley Repertory Theater).

When he isn’t designing or teaching Phil Johnson is traveling the world spreading art education to impoverished areas. He most recently taught theater in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya. Phil Has a B.F.A. and M.A. from Ohio University.

Sharath Patel

Casey Landreth — Fri, 15 Nov 2019 22:17:08 +0000

Sharath (he/him/his) was raised between Appalachia and India while spending the following years studying across Europe and New England. Before arriving in the Pacific Northwest, he spent nearly a decade as a lead sound designer in New York City.

Design highlights include Wolf Play, Teenage Dick, Skeleton Crew, I and You, Between Riverside and Crazy, Grand Concourse, The Price, Tribes, The Motherfucker with the Hat (Artists Rep); In the Heights, Macbeth, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Portland Center Stage); Nina Simone: Four Women (Alabama Shakespeare Festival); Amadeus (Folger Theatre-Washington D.C.); The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberley (Marin Theatre Company-San Francisco); Ibsen in Chicago, Tiny Beautiful Things (Seattle Repertory Theatre); Pass Over, The Royale (ACT Theatre-Seattle); WIG OUT! (American Repertory Theatre/Company One-Boston); As You Like It (California Shakespeare Theater- Oakland); Coriolanus: Fight Like a Bitch (12th Avenue Arts-Seattle); Free Outgoing (East West Players- Los Angeles); 26 Miles, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Buried Child (Profile Theatre); The Piano Lesson, Jitney, King Hedley II, The Brother Sister Plays (Portland Playhouse).

Regional/International credits include designs in New York City, Washington D.C., Boston, Norfolk, Raleigh, Aspen, Columbus, India, France, England, Germany, and Romania. He has previously served as a visiting assistant professor, lead designer, guest artist, instructor, or lecturer at Reed College, Yale, Fordham, Columbia, Willamette, Ohio, Portland State, and Butler Universities.

Sharath is a member of United Scenic Artists Local 829, The Theatrical Sound Designers and Composers Association (TSDCA), and is an Arts Envoy for the U.S. Department of State. He holds an MFA in Sound Design from the Yale School of Drama, a BFA in Production Design & Technology from Ohio University, and is very proud to be a Resident Artist at Artists Rep.