Theater

Sound Design

& Composition

  • Cartography

    Created by Kaneza Schaal & Chris Myers

    Inflatable rafts on the Mediterranean. Dark holds of cargo trucks. Family photos wrapped carefully in a backpack that crosses border checkpoints. Inspired by the creative work with young refugees around the world, Cartography fuses map-making, dance, film, and sound sensor technology to explore the tragedy and wonder of lives in motion.

    The show includes audio-responsive video and a modular sound score based on performers' personal stories of migration paired with the experiences and memories of children fleeing their homes.

    Washington DC, Kennedy Center (2019), Philadelphia, FringeArts (2019), Cleveland, Playhouse Square (2019), New York City, New Victory (2020), Abu Dhabi, NYUAD (2020), Toronto, Young People’s Theatre (2020)

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  • SLAMDANCE garage

    by Ian Andrew Askew

    Nestled somewhere between performance art, a rock show, and an one-act opera, this show hurdles through an hour of music, movement, and text all centered around Blackness, punk, and community care.

    The Bushwick Starr (2025)

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  • Everybody is Gone

    by The New Wild

    Everybody Is Gone unites elements of journalism, live performance, and museum exhibition to provide audiences with a unique perspective on the ongoing crisis in the Uyghur Homeland. The immersive event offers audiences the opportunity to deeply and personally understand the impact of the state-backed surveillance and oppression that affect millions.

    For this show, I took real-world sonic elements - some intentionally hidden, others overbearing - and distorted them to emphasize the imposed oppressive situation audiences were placed in.

    New York, The Celemente (2022), Berlin, Alte Münze (2022)

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  • She Walks The Air

    She Walks the Air is an ongoing series of iterative intermedia projects created by Chaesong Kim on the intersectionalities of traveling fem bodies, lasting intergenerational impact of colonization, and embedded somatic memories of war.

    I have performed in multiple iterations of this work, recorded oral histories, and sound designed performances using live electronics and the sound of dancers’ movement through water.

    SWTA XI

  • Pawel & Ebola

    Written & Directed by Marianna Ellenberg

    Pawel & Ebola follows a dysfunctional brother and sister duo—the fictional offspring of infamous French neurologist and hysteria clinician Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot—whose world is disrupted by the arrival of a bizarre cult named “The Method”

    Paula Matthusen and I composed the score of this play, which I performed live, alongside live electronics manipulating the voices of the actors

    The Kitchen (2018)

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  • When We Went Electronic

    Written by Caitlin Saylor Stephens
    Directed by Meghan Finn

    It’s 2011 and two American Apparel models are searching for their missing memory after a tragically fun nite. The sound design and musical arrangement focused around a variety of complex glitching electronic sounds. Some sparks carried into the music as percussive elements, elevating the highly electronic score, dense with multi-layered synthesizers and highly effected guitars. It all came together to form an audiovisual trip that felt both tight and trashy.

    New York, The Tank (2018), Rome, Off Theatre (2021), Milan, Menotti Teatro Filippo Perego (2021), Athens, Roes Theatre (2021)

The New York Neo-Futurists

This collective of writers/performers/creators is my artistic home, and is foundational to the rest of my work; it is immediate, raw, beautiful, tangible, queer, vulnerable, confident, exciting, messy, and perfect. This is what I think theater should be. Over my decade with the collective, I spent six years as Technical Director, where I designed hundreds of plays, produced dozens of events, and shaped new modes of making between artists.

The Infinite Wrench
Theater as a mixture of poetry, sport, and living newspaper

30 plays in 1 hour. 50 weeks a year. 20 years running.

Hit Play is the radio show I created and produced with the New York Neo-Futurists.
100+ episodes
350+ audio experiments

CyberWrench

In 2020-2021, while we paused The Infinite Wrench, we presented a monthly live-streamed show of digital experiments, embracing the chaos and immediate global interactions found online. As co-director and producer of CyberWrench, I coordinated and created video work, designed graphics, and composed the music for the show. It was a unique way of gathering in an isolated time, with rich connections established with those in our community.