Music and Sound Design

May 1–9, 2021

East 26th Street between 5th and Madison
just north of Madison Square Park
Closest subways are R/W to 23rd St and 6 to 28th St

Touch is an offering to NYC, an invitation to partake in the warmth of creative intimacy, with the safety of distance. Wake up your senses with the vicarious delight of following performers through fractured journeys of forbidden touch set against the beautiful canopy of Madison Square Park.

Touch will be performed outdoors as part of the NYC Open Culture Program.

Direction
Jessica Burr

Composition, Arrangement, Sound Design
Adrian Bridges

Performed, and with original text, by
Michael Gene Jacobs, Tatyana Kot,
Ariel Polanco, Anna Wulfekuhle

Final Text
Keith Hamilton Cobb and Teddy Jefferson

Production Stage Management
Margaret Gleberman

Costume Design
Sohn Plenefisch

Press Representation
Kamila Slawinski

Space is extremely limited and reservations are highly recommended. To reserve your space, please click here to email with your name, desired show date and time, and number of tickets requested. We will contact you with further details.

Tickets are a suggested donation of $25.
Click here to email for tickets.

The presentation will run approximately 45 minutes, and audience members will need to stand or sit on the ground for the duration. All audience members and performers are required to wear masks and follow social-distancing guidelines.

Feel free to email info@blessedunrest.org with any questions.

Sound Design

Join us for a live, in-person, outdoor, and significantly abbreviated presentation of the stunning and controversial play by Tennessee Williams.

Three women fight over a handsome stranger newly arrived in their Mississippi Delta small town. Written by Williams in 1940, Battle of Angels was closed by order of the Boston League of Decency and the Boston Police Commissioner called it “Indecent and improper…. Lascivious and immoral.” Come see for yourself.

Presented in New York as part of the 2020 Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival

Written by
Tennessee Williams

Directed by
Jessica Burr

Featuring
Heather Benton, Michael Gene Jacobs, Nancy McArthur, Ronnie Williams, Aaron Michael Zook

Production Stage Management
Margaret Gleberman

Sound Design
Adrian Bridges

Costume Design Consultation
Sera Bourgeau

Space is extremely limited and reservations are required. To reserve your space, please click here to email us with your name, desired show day, and number of tickets requested. We will contact you with further details, including the exact location of the presentation.

• Tickets are a suggested donation of $25.
  Click here to email for tickets.

The presentation will last approximately 45 minutes, and audience members will need to stand or sit on the ground for the duration. All audience members and performers are required to wear masks, and social distancing will be followed. All audience members will need to bring a phone or MP3 player and headphones.

Sound Designer

Charlotte, NC - January 13
Orlando, FL - January 19
New Orleans, LA - January 23
Houston, TX - January 26
Dallas, TX - January 27

“GUAC: My Son, My Hero” is a social justice theatre piece telling the story of Manuel and Patricia Oliver in the year following their son’s murder in the Parkland shooting. Manuel, a painter and visual artist, and his wife, Patricia have dedicated their lives since their son’s murder to campaigning for gun law reform through their organization, Change the Ref. Manny’s work, including creating large-scale public art pieces, has generated worldwide attention, and “GUAC: MY Son, My Hero” is his latest protest project. Like all his work, its core motivation is ensuring other young Americans do not lose their lives, like his son did. As Manuel states, “I lost my son. My son did not lose his father.”

“GUAC” combines elements of stand-up comedy, testimony theatre, video, installation art and live painting to create an intimate, hilarious, devastating and loving picture of a 17-year-old boy named Joaquin, who immigrated with his family from Venezuela to the United States, for a safer life.

Associate Sound Designer

On the Grounds of Belonging
By Ricardo Pérez González
Directed by David Mendizábal
October 9 – November 3, 2019
Long Wharf Theatre

Timeless in its telling, this stirring, universal story of star-crossed lovers will sweep you away. In Houston at the height of Jim Crow, segregation pervades society in every way, including the underground and illegal gay bar scene. One night a chance encounter between Russell, a local at the Blacks-only Gold Room, and Tom, from the whites-only Red Room, leads to a forbidden romance that could destroy them both. The spellbinding On the Grounds of Belonging signals the arrival of a bold new voice in the American theatre.

CAST
Craig Bockhorn, Jeremiah Clapp, Tracey Conyer Lee, Blake Morris, Thomas Silcott, Calvin Leon Smith.

DESIGN
Set - Wilson Chin
Costumes - Ntokozo Fuzunina Kunene
Lighting - Cha See
Sound - Mauricio Escamilla

Sound Designer

The Dead End Kids present NERVE, a dark comedy by Adam Szymkowicz about falling into a relationship on the first date. Elliot (Charlie McElveen) has never had an online date before...at least not one that showed up. Susan (Renee Gagner) has had far too many but would prefer not to discuss them. When they meet in a bar one night, all their personality flaws are revealed, along with a puppet (Emma Factor), some modern dance, and a desperation that may or may not be love.

Directed by Owen Laheen and Katherine Laheen
Stage Managed by Maggie Gayford
Music Supervised by John Swan
Choreography by Molly Model
Lighting Design by Jadyn Buchanan
Sound Design by Adrian Bridges


Running Time: 1 hour

For more info visit: thedeadendkids.org. Tickets on sale!

Sound Designer & Arranger

REFUGE
Created by the ensemble
Written by Matt Opatrny
Directed by Jessica Burr & Florent Mehmeti

April 25-May 11
Baruch Performing Arts Center, New York, NY

Featuring: Eshref Durmishi, Daniela Markaj, Nancy McArthur, Becca Schneider, Ilirë Vinca, Perri Yaniv...

...and The Band! Eve Sicular, Ismail Butera, and Debra Kreisberg.

Production Stage Manager - Darielle Shandler
Set Design - Teddy Jefferson & Sonya Plenefisch
Costume Design - Caitlin Cisek
Lighting Design - Jay Ryan
Sound Design - Adrian Bridges
Assistant Director/Fight Choreographer - Benjamin Peterson
Dramaturg - Julia Levine

A deathbed confession launches a young Jewish woman on a journey of discovery to a remote Albanian village. What she finds reveals both the truth of her family’s escape and those who risked everything to provide them with refuge.

NYC-based Blessed Unrest teams up with Teatri Oda from Kosovo for this world-premiere play based on real events. During World War II, thousands of Jewish refugees were harbored by families in Albania, most of them practicing Muslims. Despite Nazi occupation, no Jews were taken to internment camps from Albania and it was the only country in Europe with more Jews at the end of the war than at the beginning. Refuge will shine light on this little-known history, with the current backdrop of the refugee crisis in Europe and our own nation’s attempts to close our doors to refugees and migrants.

The Companies and the History of our Collaboration
Blessed Unrest is an award-winning theatre ensemble that has been creating original plays in NYC and touring internationally since 1999. Teatri Oda, the first independent arts organization in Kosovo, has gained notoriety across Europe as a vital voice in the establishment of their new nation’s cultural identity.

REFUGE is the third original play created by the two companies since 2005. We have toured together six times through the Balkans, in Western Europe, and in New York, including the first-ever US/Kosovar theatre project in the United States. Our production of DORUNTINE was awarded first prize at the 2016 Secondo Festival in Zurich, Switzerland. Following this premiere production of REFUGE, the play will tour to Western Europe and the Balkans in 2020.

Sound Designer

THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY
Crystal Field, Executive Artistic Director, Presents:

In Association with MBL Productions, Mary J. Davis, Producer

STILL AT RISK
A New Play By
TIM PINCKNEY

featuring
ROBERT GOMES* CHRISTOPHER J. HANKE* AMY HOHN*
RYAN SPAHN* JONATHAN WALKER*

Directed by Carl Andress (The Divine Sister; Die, Mommie, Die!).

The creative team includes Jason Lee Courson (Scenic Design), Gregory Gale (Costume Design), Steve O’Shea (Lighting Design), and Adrian Bridges (Sound Design). The Production Stage Manager is Giles T. Horne and Assistant Stage Manager is Jessica Fleischman. The General Manager is Tony Spinosa with Company Manager Greg Santos. Graphic Design is by Srđa Vasiljević.

Kevin, a surviving activist from the front lines of the AIDS crisis, finds himself struggling to find his place and purpose in contemporary gay culture. When a gay fundraising event threatens to erase the history he was part of creating, Kevin's anger and passion are renewed and he is confronted with the challenge of how to motivate change in this new climate of visibility. Along the way, Kevin's raw and slightly unhinged methods provoke everyone who can help him, damage long friendships and eventually expose some dark secrets. Hilarious, sharp, and deeply moving, Still at Risk is a powerful look at the personal and political hazards of rewriting the past and one man's attempt to move forward.

Performances begin Thursday, March 7, 2019 for a limited engagement through Sunday, March 31, 2019 at the Community Space Theater at Theater for the New City (155 First Avenue, between 9th & 10th Streets).

Sound Designer

The world as we know it has come to an end. 
Electricity is a memory. The survivors gaze into the fire and conjure up memories of Simpsons episodes to entertain themselves. Seven years later, these stories have become a primitive entertainment industry. Seventy-five years later still, the stories have evolved into an elaborate mythology.

By turns harrowing and hilarious, Anne Washburn’s riveting play explores the power of storytelling and asking what happens when media becomes myth — and myth becomes something more.

“Downright brilliant” —The New York Times.

For mature audiences.

Sound Designer

Columbia University, School of the Arts, Theatre presents:

APSU AT DUSK

Written by Andrey Uspenskiy
Directed by Jacob Basri

Featuring:
Whitney Biancur
Phil Rosen
John Russell*
Marjie Shrimpton

* Appearing courtesy of Actor's Equity Association

Producer - Jonathan Bleicher
Production Stage Manager - Lanie Lanxuan Liu
Dramaturg - Elizagrace Madrone
Additional Research - Cole Stern
Costume Designer - Olivia Hern
Scenic Designer - Anton Volovsek
Lighting Designer - Chris D’Angelo
Sound Designer - Adrian Bridges

Schedule
Friday, February 8th @ 7:30PM
Saturday, February 9th @ 2:30PM and 7:30PM
Sunday, February 10th @ 2:30PM

ABOUT APSU AT DUSK
Adultery and heartbreak on the banks of the Baltic during the last gasps of the Soviet Union. An uncomfortable trio jokes desperately about the political and the personal. What defines us? What haunts us? What can we leave behind? And in the end, how much life can we fit in before the sun goes down?

Admission is FREE.

Sound Engineer

DEAD ARE MY PEOPLE

November 4 - 11, 2018

NYTW’s Fourth Street Theatre
83 East 4th Street, NYC
November 4 - 11, 2018
$35

A Play With Music By Ismail Khalidi
Original Compositions By Hadi Eldebek
Lyrics By Ismail Khalidi, Hadi Eldebek & Patrick Lazour
Directed By Leah C. Gardiner
With Adam Bakri, Brandon Gill, Ken Marks,
Sevan Greene, Nadine Malouf, & Brian O’Neill

Dead Are My People follows Nicola, a young Syrian man who flees to the U.S. from famine-stricken Mount Lebanon during World War I. Once there, he hopes to track down his uncle Tanios, who emigrated West years before. Finding few traces of his kin, Nicola must ultimately navigate the treacherous terrain of the Jim Crow South. Grappling with the legacies of white supremacy, immigration, and assimilation, Dead Are My People is an unexpected and timely journey to the core of the American experience. Dead Are My People is Noor Theatre’s first full-length play commission.

Sound Design and Original Hip Hop Music

THIS IS MODERN ART
By Idris Goodwin and Kevin Coval
Directed by Jessica Burr

June 2 – 23, 2018
New York Theatre Workshop Next Door, NYC
BLESSED UNREST - theatre for the adventurous
Tickets are ON SALE NOW at nytw.org or by calling 212-460-5475

Featuring: J. Stephen Brantley, Andrew Gonzalez, Ashley N. Hildreth, Nancy McArthur, Shakur Tolliver, and Landon G. Woodson.

Production Stage Manager - Darielle Shandler
Set Design - Matt Opatrny
Scenic Artist - KEO
Costume Design - Haydee Zelideth
Lighting Design - Miriam Nilofa Crowe
Sound Design - Adrian Bridges
Assistant Director - Ben Peterson
Publicist PR-ism: Kamila Slawinski & Ivan Talijancic
Photo by Maria Baranova

Marginalized young men risk their bodies to make their voices heard, defying our assumptions about what art is and where it belongs. A crew of artists of color introduce themselves to the hallowed Art Institute of Chicago by painting a fifty-foot graffiti mural on the towering wall of the Institute’s New Modern Wing.

This Is Modern Art is based on a real event in 2010 when art became a crime. The acclaimed and controversial play ignited a fiery debate about race, privilege, and representation after being called “irresponsible” and “potentially damaging” by the Chicago Sun-Times. The mural has been blasted away, but the artists’ boundary-breaking act and the conversation it spurred are kept alive by Blessed Unrest’s dynamic staging of the play’s NYC premiere.

Original Music and Sound Design

a new play by Max Mondi
directed by Anne Ceclia Haney

Karen, a retired college administrator (Brenda Wehle, NYTW's Mary Jane), is pushed out of the home in which she raised her son Blake and has lived for decades. When she learns that the house has been turned into a Airbnb that hosts a variety of transient wanderers, she decides to join them. HOUSE OF KAREN is a play about the audacity, persistence, and futility of hope and about the refuge we take in an ever-changing daily life.

*Appearing courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association

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