Jon Gottlieb

Jon Gottlieb

(Sound Designer - Owner Jon Sound, Inc)
Over the last 35 years Jon has designed the sound for hundreds of theatrical productions nationally and internationally. He currently heads the Sound Design program in the School of Theater at California Institute of the Arts where he has also served as acting dean from 2003 to 2006. He served for 15 years as the resident sound designer for Center Theatre Group; Mark Taper Forum / Ahmanson. Local Los Angeles productions include Like Jazz at the Mark Taper Forum, The Royal Family at the Ahmanson, King Lear for The Center for New Theater at CalArts and several productions at the Geffen Playhouse including Neil Simon’s Rose and Walsh and Oscar & Felix. Broadway designs include: QED (Lincoln Center), Master Class by Terence McNally , and Neil Simon’s The Dinner Party and the current national tour of Jesus Christ Superstar.
Jon has received eight Los Angeles Drama Critic’s Circle Awards, over 60 Drama-Logue and L.A. Weekly Awards, Career Achievement awards from The Los Angeles Theatre Alliance, the L.A. Weekly and the Los Angeles Theatre Center, and was recently presented with the Distinguished Artist Award from the Los Angeles Music Center Club 100. For Disney Imagineering, he created original sound effects and design for two attractions at Walt Disney World in Florida.
Jon’s design work at the Geffen Playhouse includes Equivocation and George Gershwin, Alone (2007 Ovation Award). He most recently designed Master Class with Tyne Daily at the Vaudeville Theatre in London as well as productions at Manhattan Theatre Club on Broadway and the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. Recent Broadway credits include QED with Alan Alda at Lincoln Center, Dinner Party and Master Class. Local credits include iWitness (LA Drama Critics Circle Award), The Flower Drum Song (Ovation Award) and Hughie with Al Pacino for Center Theatre Group as well as work with the Wallis Annenberg Performing Arts Center and The Pasadena Playhouse. Jon has received eight LADCC Awards, three LA Stage Alliance Ovation Awards, and over 60 Drama-Logue, L.A. Weekly and NAACP Theater awards.