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10.18.12

Tadeusz Słobodzianek’s amazing play, OUR CLASS, tells the story of ten people from a small Polish town between the years 1926 and 2006. I joined an incredibly talented group of people (including composer Eric Shimelonis and musicologist Bret Werb) to make the sound design for this play. Derek Goldman directs and some of DC’s most interesting actors are in it.

At Theater J in DC through November 4.

Tickets and more info here.

11.29.12

Just Announced! Sarah Ewing and I are recipients of Dance Metro DC’s Dance Connect Commissioning Project grant. We’ll be creating a new work this Spring, premiering at the Atlas theater on March 1, 2013.

12.14.12

CONTRACTIONS at the Studio Theatre in DC opens in just a few weeks. I’ve been working hard with director Duncan Macmillan on the sound design. It’s going to involve some secret, onstage mics and some very dense transitions. 

01.31.13

The Minotaur is in its second week at the Atlas Performing Arts Center in DC. The show is produced by Rorschach Theatre, directed by its artistic director, Randy Baker; I made the sound design and contributed a few compositions. It’s getting good reviews here here here here here

Buy tickets here

02.10.13

I’m in rehearsals now for The TEMPEST at Whitman College. What an enormous challenge and gift I’ve gotten my self into! So much music and so many sounds in Shakespeare’s last play. The folks at Whitman are fantastic hosts, as usual, and I’m pushing their new theater’s sound system to the limit! Here’s a small piece of my design, a song that the monster Calaban sings while drunk on Itallian grog.

05.14.13

A great deal has happened since I returned from Walla Walla at the end of February - so much that I have not had a chance to update bigbee.org. Here’s a brief re-cap of Spring 2013:

Rebecca and I created a new performance with choreographer Sarah Ewing called D:GET. We asked potential audience members to answer 12 questions about what they prefer to experience while attending a performance. We were interested in using raw data as a content generator, also investigated the strangeness and validity/veracity of corporate personality tests. It premiered at the Intersections Dance Festival in DC on March 9, 2013 and was commissioned by Dance Metro DC. A video document of the performance is here and you can take the original survey here.

I designed a pair of plays at the Studio Theatre in DC, presented there as an evening called Pas De Deux (closing on May 19). The very talented David Schulman wrote a song for the production called “Wide Rivers Role” and I made many many different arrangements of it. You can listen to one of them below.

Just last week a fantastic world premiere dance theatre performance titled ONCE WILD: ISADORA IN RUSSIA took place on the Gonda stage at Georgetown University. I made the sound design for this show, working closely with director Derek Goldman and an amazingly talented pianist called Carlos César Rodríguez. Sarah Kaufman of the Washington Post wrote a very good (and, I feel, very thorough and considered) preview and review. You can listen to a piece I created for the show below.