Rodolfo Ortega
Rodolfo Ortega
Composer & Sound Designer, Sound Engineer
Rodolfo has designed sound and composed music for some of the most prestigious theatre companies in the United States including The Oregon Shakespeare Festival (The Tenth Muse, Romeo and Juliet), Denver Center Theatre Company (The Three Musketeers, Romeo & Juliet), and South Coast Repertory Theatre (The Monster Builder). Rodolfo has also written the compositions for Native Gardens at Cleveland Playhouse and recently worked on Actors Theater of Louisville’s production of Flex and Nicole Clarke is Having a Baby for the Humana Festival. In addition to being a Resident Artist at Artists Rep, Rodolfo is also an Associate Artist with Santa Cruz Shakespeare (Hamlet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, Julius Caesar, The Man in the Iron Mask, Henry IV (I & II), Henry V). His composition for Santa Cruz Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost drew high praise from the Wall Street Journal who called his music “unexpectedly haunting”. He also collaborated with Tony Award winning director, Pam McKinnon, on Santa Cruz Shakespeare’s Othello.
For Artists Rep, Rodolfo has designed and composed music for 1984, La Ruta, The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart, Caught, Skin of Our Teeth, The Liar, Blithe Spirit, Exiles, Miracle Worker and Intimate Apparel, just to name a few of the over one hundred shows he has done for Artist Rep since 2000. Rodolfo recently won the Prague Quadrennial Competition in Music for his composition for Artist Repertory Theater’s Magellanica where he was a featured Artist in Prague in June 2019. He also works extensively at Northwest Children’s Theatre where he has been commissioned to write numerous musicals (Hansel and Gretel, Snow White, Pinocchio, Peter Pan, The Little Mermaid and El Zorrito). Rodolfo spent 13 years working with Profile Theatre where his credits include sound design and music for The Blue Door, A Lesson Before Dying, Lips Together Teeth Apart and Master Harold and the Boys. He has also worked with Portland Playhouse, Oregon Children’s Theatre, CoHo Productions, Corrib Theatre and Milagro Theatre.
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