sound design and original music for theatre and dance

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*denotes World Premiere/Original Adaptation

  • 2024 - Theatre Royal Drury Lane (West End)

    Starring SIGOURNEY WEAVER as Prospero

    Director: JAMIE LLOYD

    Associate Director & Adaptor: JONATHAN GLEW

    Set & Costume Designer: SOUTRA GILMOUR

    Lighting Designer: JON CLARK

    Sound Designer & Co-Composer: BEN AND MAX RINGHAM

    Co-Composer: MICHAEL ‘MIKEY J’ ASANTE

    Associate Sound Designer: MATT RUSSELL

    Assistant to Sound Designer: DEANNA H. CHOI

    Cast: SIGOURNEY WEAVER, FORBES MASSON, MASON ALEXANDER PARK, MARA HUF, JAMES PHOON, TIM STEAD, MATHEW HORNE

  • 2024 - World Premiere (London, UK)

    Written and directed by Tim Crouch

    Sound designer: Helen Skiera

    Associate Sound Designer / Sound Operator: Deanna H. Choi

    Set & Costume Designer: Lily Arnold

    Lighting Designer: Will Monks

    Performed by Peyvand Sadeghian & Felipe Pacheco

    Stage Management: Dev Danzig

  • 2024 - WORLD PREMIERE - Ballet West (Salt Lake City) & Kennedy Center (DC)

    Choreography: Zhong-Jing Fang
    Assistant: Xiaoxiao Cao
    Music: Deanna H. Choi
    Lighting Design: Julie E. Ballard
    Costume Design: Jason Hadley

    Dancers: Katlyn Addison, Victoria Vassos, Rylee Ann Rogers, Jordan Veit, Olivia Gusti, Tyler Gum, Claire Wilson, Jacob Hancock, Jazz Khai Bynum, Loren Walton, Kristina Pool, Anderson Duhan, Kye Cooley, Joseph Lynch, Jenna Rae Herrera, Vinicius Lima. Amy Potter, Adrian Fry, David Huffmire

  • 2024

    Written by Tom Stoppard

    Cast: Dominic Monaghan, Billy Boyd, Michael Blake, Drew Douris-O'Hara, Jacob Sampson, Helen Belay, Raquel Duffy, Jonathan Ellul, Mallory Amirault, Santiago Guzman, Walter Borden, Erin Tancock, Pasha Ebrahimi

    Movement: Angela Gasparetto

    Associate Director: Natasha Strilchuk

    Assistant Director: Tristan Cheung

    Set Design: Andrew Cull

    Costume Design: Kaelan MacDonald

    Lighting Design: Leigh Ann Vardy

    Original Music, Sound Design, Systems Design: Deanna H. Choi

    Associate Sound Designer: Ryan Wilcox

    Apprentice Sound Designer: Riley Reid

  • 2024 - WORLD PREMIERE - Toronto (Tarragon), Montreal (Centaur), Winnipeg (RMTC)

    Written and performed by Diane Flacks

    Movement: Rebecca Harper

    Set: Jung-Hye Kim

    Lighting: Leigh Ann Vardy

    Sound design: Deanna H. Choi

    Associate sound designer: Jacob Lin

  • 2023

    Adapted by Jeremy Webb

    Director/Choreographer: Stephanie Graham

    Music Director & Orchestrator: Lisa St. Clair

    Set: Patrick Clark

    Lighting: Leigh Ann Vardy

    Costume: Helena Marriott

    Sound: Deanna H. Choi

    CAST: Michelle Yu, Martha Irving, Ryan Brown, Chris Vergara, Becca Guilderson, Ann Doyle, Ryan Rogerson, Ryan MacDougall, Elora Joy Sarmiento, David Light, Aryelle Morrison, Ali Power

  • 2023

    Set & Costume: Michael Gianfrancesco

    Lighting: Patrick Beagan

    Original Music and Sound Design: Deanna H. Choi

    Associate Director: Brett Dahl

    Associate Sound Designer: Tori Morrison

    CAST: Alexander Ariate, Julian Arnold, Helen Belay, Nadien Chu, Jeff Lillico, Doug Mertz, Amelia Sargisson, Davina Stewart

  • 2023

    Director: Ted Dykstra

    Assistant Director: Matthew G. Brown

    Set Design: Steve Lucas & Rebecca Morris

    Lighting Design: Steve Lucas

    Costume Design: Des'ree Gray

    Co-Sound Designers: Deanna H. Choi & Michael Wanless

    CAST: Alison Beckwith, Raquel Duffy, Ruari Hamman, Amy Lee, Hannah Levinson, Gray Powell, Andy Trithardt, Mackenzie Wojcik

  • 2023

    Book and Lyrics by Howard Ashman and Music by Alan Menken

    Choreographer: Genny Sermonia

    Set Design: Brandon Kleiman

    Costume Design: Joshua Quinlan

    Lighting Design: Michelle Ramsay

    Sound Design: Deanna H. Choi

    Assistant Sound Design: Anthony Allan

    CAST: Amir Haidar, Taharih Vejdani, Tyler Murree, Michael DeRose, Chris Tsujiuchi, Michelle Yu, Taylor Lovelace, Sierra Holder, Joel Cumber

  • 2023

    Based on the novel by Madeleine L'Engle, adapted by Thomas Morgan Jones

    Set: Teresa Przybylski

    Costume: Robin Fisher

    Lighting: Kimberly Purtell

    Original Music and Sound Design: Deanna H. Choi

    Video Design: jaymez

    Associate Sound Designer: Olivia Wheeler

    Assistant Sound Designer: Frank Incer

    CAST: Celeste Catena, Robert Markus, Noah Beemer, Khadijah Roberts-Abdullah, Kim Horsman, Nestor Lozano Jr, Jamie Mac, Christine Desjardins, Jahlen Barnes, Germaine Konji, Beck Lloyd, Erica Peck, Masini McDermott, Aiden deSalaiz, Henry Firmston, Nick Dolan, Kelly Holiff, Evangelia Kambites, Jennifer Rider-Shaw

    Stage Manager: Kim Lott

  • 2023

    Written and performer by Alex Bulmer

    Set Design: Victoria Wallace

    Lighting Design: Dave DeGrow

    Co-Sound Designers: Deanna H. Choi & Thomas Ryder Payne

  • 2023

    Book by Douglas McGrath, Music by Carole King, Gerry Goffin, Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil

    Music Director: Ken Cormier

    Choreographer: Julie Tomaino

    Set: Cory Sincennes

    Costume: Stephanie Kong

    Lighting: Michelle Ramsay

    Sound: Deanna H. Choi

    CAST: Paul Almeida, Ivy Charles, Frankie Cottrell, Daniel Curalli, Emily Dallas, Cecily Day, Maria Fernandes, Jeffrey Follis, Andrew J. Hampton, Kaylee Harwood, Shaquan Lewis, Jennifer Lynch, Kamyar Pazandeh, Dawn Pemberton, Hal Wesley Rogers, Jason Sakaki, Kirk Smith, Ali Watson, Tenaj Williams, Beatrice Zeilinger

  • 2023 - WORLD PREMIERE

    Based on the best-selling children's book by astronaut Chris Hadfield and Kate Fillion

    Adapted by Jim Millan and Ian McIntyre

    Set and costume: Anna Treusch

    Lighting: Bonnie Beecher

    Video: Daniele Guevara

    Assistant Sound Designer: River Oliveira

    Magic Design: David Ben

    CAST: Ziska Louis, Hannah Forest-Briand, Evelyn Wiebe, Aurora Browne, Craig Lauzon, Xavier Lopez, Shaquille Pottinger

  • 2023

    Written by Andrew Bovell

    Set: Shannon Lea Doyle

    Costume: Ming Wong

    Lighting: Nick Blais

    Sound: Deanna H. Choi

    Assistant Sound Designer: Stewart Legere

    Cast: Seana McKenna, Tom McCamus, Daniel Maslany, Christine Horne, Michael Derworiz, Alanna Bayle

  • 2022 - WORLD PREMIERE

    Written by Ho Ka Kei (Jeff Ho)

    Movement: Hanna Kiel

    Set & Costume: Christine Urquhart

    Lighting: Arun Srinivasan

    Original Music and Sound Design: Deanna H. Choi

    Assistant Sound Designer: River Oliveira

    CAST: Anton Ling, Steven Hao, Karl Ang

  • 2022 - WORLD PREMIERE - Soulpepper Theatre (Toronto), The Cultch (Vancouver), Prairie Theatre Exchange (Winnipeg)

    Written by Ins Choi

    Set: Sophie Tang

    Costume: Brenda McLean

    Lighting: Gerald King

    Sound and Music Production: Deanna H. Choi

    CAST: Raugi Yu, Josette Jorge

  • 2022

    Book, Music, and Lyrics by Meredith Wilson

    Director & Choreographer: Stephanie Graham

    Assistant Choreographer: Keleshaye Christmas-Simpson

    Music Director: Rachel Cameron

    Set: Brandon Kleiman

    Costume: Robin Fisher & Joshua Quinlan

    Lighting: Renee Brode

    Sound: Deanna H. Choi

  • 2022 - WORLD PREMIERE

    Written by Chloé Hung

  • 2022 - WORLD PREMIERE

    Written by Rosa Laborde

    Set & Costume: Michael Gianfrancesco

    Lighting: Bonnie Beecher

    Sound: Deanna H. Choi

    CAST: Christine Horne, Philip Riccio, Maria Del Mar, Shakura Dickson, Sarah Farb, Linda Kash, Hardee T. Lineham, Maurice Dean Wint

  • 2021 - WORLD PREMIERE

    Written by Ismaila Alfa

  • 2020

    Written by David Grieg

  • 2019 - WORLD PREMIERE

    Written by Sean Dixon

  • 2020 - WORLD PREMIERE

    Written by Andrea Scott

    Set & Costume: Brandon Kleiman

    Lighting: Kaitlin Hickey

    Sound and Music: Deanna H. Choi

    Video: Nick Bottomley

  • 2019 - WORLD PREMIERE

    Written and performed by Daniel MacIvor

  • 2019

    Written by Stephen Adly Giurgis

    Directed by Kelli Fox

    Set Design by Anna Treusch

    Costume Design by Michelle Bohn

    Lighting Design by Steve Lucas

    Sound Design by Deanna H. Choi

  • 2019

    Written by Tracy Letts

  • 2019

    Written by Duncan Macmillan & Jonny Donahoe

    Set & lighting: Steve Lucas

    Performed by Gavin Crawford

  • 2019

    Written by Michel-Marc Bouchard, translated by Linda Gaboriau

    Associate Director: Nikki Shaffeeullah

    Set: Jay Havens

    Costume: Joanna Yu

    Lighting: Michelle Ramsay

    Lyrics by Yolanda Bonnell

    Sound Design, Original Music, Music Direction: Deanna H. Choi

    Additional Music: aqua

    Assistant Sound Designer: Phoebe Wang

    Stage Manager: Neha Ross

    CAST: Mark Cassius, Walter Borden, Alexander Chapman, Waawaate Fobister, Ryan G. Hinds, Indrit Kasapi, Tsholo Khalema, Troy Emery Twigg, Joseph Zita

  • 2019 - WORLD PREMIERE

    based on the novel by C.S. Lewis, adapted by Anna Chatterton

    Production Design: Jennifer Goodman

    Lighting: Siobhan Sléath

    Original Music and Sound Design: Deanna H. Choi

    Projection: Cameron Davis

    Movement: Alexis Mulligan

    Music Direction: Ryan DeSouza

  • 2019

    Written by Margaret Atwood

  • 2019 - WORLD PREMIERE

    Written and performed by Augusto Bitter

  • 2019 - WORLD PREMIERE

    Written by Andrew Kushnir

  • 2018

    Written by Sarah DeLappe

    Set & Lighting: Jareth Li

    Original Music and Sound Design: Deanna H. Choi

    Assistant sound designer: Cosette Pin

  • 2018 - WORLD PREMIERE

    Written by Tara Beagan

    Music by Pura Fé

  • 2018 - WORLD PREMIERE

    Written by Erin Shields

    Movement: Viv Moore

    Set and Costume: Judith Bowden

    Lighting: Bonnie Beecher

    Composer and Co-Sound Designer: Thomas Ryder Payne

  • 2018

    Written by Paul Thompson & Rick Salutin

  • 2018 - WORLD PREMIERE

    Written and performed by Justin Miller

  • 2017

    Written by Colleen Wagner

    Set: Elahe Marjovi

    Lighting: Louise Guinand

    Costume: Samantha McCue

    CAST: Augusto Bitter & Tamara Podemski

  • 2017 - WORLD PREMIERE

    Written by Falen Johnson

  • 2017 - WORLD PREMIERE

    Written by Ryan Griffith

  • 2017 - WORLD PREMIERE

    Adapted from the short story by Alistair MacLean by Ryan Griffith

  • 2017

    Written by Linda Griffiths

  • 2016 - WORLD PREMIERE

    Written by Jijo Quayson

  • 2016 - WORLD PREMIERE

    Written by Keith Barker

  • Commissioned by Canadian Heritage - 2017 - National Tour: Charlottetown, Whitehorse, Montreal, Ottawa, Edmonton

    Featuring: Emily Solstice Tait, Devon Michael Brown, Christie Adams, Byron Abalos, Ayesha Mansur Gonsalves