2009 Tony Award Nominees: 'Best Sound Design Of A Play'
By: Charlie Piane May. 07, 2009
Nominations in 27 competitive categories for the American Theatre Wing's 63rd Annual Antoinette Perry "Tony"® Awards were announced today by Tony Award Winners Cynthia Nixon and Lin-Manuel Miranda from the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. To view the complete list of nominees, click here.
The Antoinette Perry "Tony" Awards are bestowed annually on theatre professionals for distinguished achievement. The Tony is one of the most coveted awards in the entertainment industry and the annual telecast is considered one of the most prestigious programs on television.
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BroadwayWorld Presents The 2009 Tony Award Nominees:
'Best Sound Design of a Play'
Paul Arditti (Mary Stuart)
Paul Arditti is currently represented in New York with his sound design for Billy Elliot, for which he won the 2006 Olivier Award in London and was nominated for the Helpmann Award in Australia in 2007. Other designs in NYC include Les Liaisons Dangereuses, The Year of Magical Thinking, Festen (Evening Standard Award 2005, Olivier nomination), The Pillowman (Drama Desk Award 2005, Olivier nomination), Far Away (Lucille Lortel nomination), The Chairs (Drama Desk nomination), Four Baboons Adoring the Sun, (Drama Desk Award 1993). Paul won the 2008 Olivier Award for Saint Joan at the National Theatre in London.
Gregory Clarke (Equus)
Recent work - West End: Equus, Waiting for Godot, Amy's View, A Voyage Round My Father, Hay Fever, Honour, And Then There Were None, Some Girls, You Never Can Tell, National Anthems, Betrayal, Abigail's Party, The Philanthropist, What the Butler Saw, The Dresser; Broadway: Pygmalion, Journey's End (Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Sound Design); Peter Hall Company: Habeas Corpus, As You Like It, Design for Living, Much Ado About Nothing; National Theatre: The Emperor Jones, No Man's Land, Tristan and Yseult; Royal Shakespeare Company: Cymbeline, Great Expectations, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Coriolanus, Tantalus.
Russell Goldsmith (Exit the King)
Russell Goldsmith is an award winning Sound Designer and Composer based in Melbourne, Australia. His diverse body of work spans theatre, film, television, advertising and radio. He won Best Sound Design/Composition at the 2007 Sydney Theatre Awards with John Rodgers for Exit the King (Company B Belvoir & Malthouse Theatre), and the 2002 Green Room Award for Best Sound Design for Chamber Made's Slow Love. He received a Green Room Award nomination for Sound Design/Composition for The Frail Man (Playbox Theatre). Russell is also the principal of TotalTech Productions, a business specialising in audio system design and consultation.
Scott Lehrer and Leon Rothenberg (Joe Turner's Come and Gone)
Scott Lehrer: LCT: include Joe Turner's Come and Gone, Happiness, South Pacific (Tony and Drama Desk Awards), Dessa Rose, The Frogs, Thou Shalt Not, The Invention of Love, An American Daughter, A Fair Country, Hapgood, My Favorite Year. Broadway: revival of Chicago, James Joyce's The Dead, Angels in America, Once on This Island, The Heidi Chronicles, 26 Encores! Among Off-Broadway: Sondheim's Saturday Night, Assassins, Sunday in the Park, Putting It Together; Richard Nelson's Franny's Way (2002 Lortel Award); My Life with Albertine; Isn't It Romantic; Falsettoland; Little Fish; Geniuses. Also audio for media and music production including Hazmat Modine (Barbes), Last Forever (Nonesuch), Meredith Monk's mercy (ECM) and Geoff Muldaur's Private Astronomy (DG). Faculty at Bennington College.
Leon Rothenberg: LCT: South Pacific (Associate), The Coast of Utopia (Associate). Broadway: Impressionism, Chita Rivera: The Dancer's Life (Associate). Off-Broadway/NY: Fall for Dance, Labapalooza!, American Magic. Regional: Herringbone (McCarter), Land of Dreams (Kasser), Wet (REDCAT), Pera Palas (Boston Court), Elegies: A Song Cycle (Canon), King Lear (Dijon Festival) and many others. For Cirque du Soleil: Kooza, Wintuk, LOVE (Assistant), Corteo (Assistant), Ka (Assistant). Experimental film: Magnetic Sleep, Terrace 49, Seven Swans, Things Fall Apart, Ultime Thule, The Projects Lumiére.
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