Birth Place: Phoenix, Arizona
Noel Nichols (they/she) 1/3 member of UptownWorks sound design collective with Daniela Hart and Bailey Trierweiler
Noel is a sound designer, engineer, and collaborator working across the United States. They love to create work that centers Chicano, queer and global majority communities.
Their work primarily includes engineering for live entertainment, designing theatrical works and plays, producing online work, and functioning in a variety of roles in post-production for film and audio dramas. They specialize in the system design and vocal reinforcement aspects of sound design, and are also a skilled content creator, composer, and editor.
Select design credits include Today is My Birthday (Yale Repertory Theatre) First Down (Noor Theatre), the ripple, the wave… (Berkeley Rep/Goodman), Mojada (Indy Shakes) Fade (Audible Theatre), Downtown Stories (En Garde Arts), Nightwatch (Dorset Theatre Festival), Which Way to the Stage (Signature Theatre) Tomás and the Library Lady, Memory House (Lake Dillon Theatre Co.) Latinos Who Look Like Ricky Martin (Verano Cabaret), Counting Pebbles (Faultline Ensemble) and The Masses are Asses (Wesleyan CFA), M.F.A. in Sound Design from Yale School of Drama. Current faculty in Sound Design at the University of Southern California. NoelNicholsDesign.com
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