What you’ve always wanted to know about being a Theatre Sound Designer

 … but didn’t know one to ask.

Recently, I was invited to teach a seminar on sound design to the Stage Management and Technical Theatre students at the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts (ALRA) in London. During the Q&A, I realised the questions they were asking are ones I’ve been answering for most of my career, and not only from students. Directors, producers, other designers, and colleagues in other sound disciplines all have one question in common: what does a Theatre Sound Designer do? (more…)