The Five Percent

These women are heroes, bad-ass superstars.  Let’s always make history remember who they are.  Through pandemic ramblings, or word-press, or pen, keep spreading the word of these powerful women. 

Fernanda Starling started her career in Brazil and is now a versatile engineer in Los Angeles. Working in Recording, Broadcast, and Film & TV Audio!

Liina Turtonen of LNA Does Audio Stuff

Beth O’Leary is a freelance monitor engineer and system tech based in the U.K. She has been working in the industry for 11 years. She has toured as a system tech with Arcade Fire, J Cole, the Piano Guys, Paul Weller, a tour featuring Roy Orbison as a hologram.

The music scene here in Scotland is one of the most vibrant. But behind the scenes, the figures for women in music aren’t always encouraging. Hoping to change that is a charity organisation called SWIM – or Scottish Women Inventing Music.

Tana Douglas is known as the first woman roadie and got her start working Production in 1973

Although women from every generation continue to forge ahead in our field, the hard reality of being only five percent of the industry means that women rarely have the privilege of meeting one another. 

An Interview With The Only Two Women Ever Nominated for a Tony Award in Sound Design Jessica Paz and Cricket S Myers.

Carolyn Slothour is an up and coming independent FOH and monitor engineer, who has been working in the industry for just over five years. She works as an A1 and A2 at a few production companies based in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, including a company called Zero Fossil which is a clean energy/solar-powered production company.