sound design and original music for theatre and dance
Behind the Scenes
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*denotes World Premiere/Original Adaptation
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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
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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
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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 HadleyDancers: 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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2023
Written and performer by Alex Bulmer
Set Design: Victoria Wallace
Lighting Design: Dave DeGrow
Co-Sound Designers: Deanna H. Choi & Thomas Ryder Payne
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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2022 - WORLD PREMIERE
Written by Chloé Hung
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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
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2021 - WORLD PREMIERE
Written by Ismaila Alfa
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2020
Written by David Grieg
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2019 - WORLD PREMIERE
Written by Sean Dixon
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2020 - WORLD PREMIERE
Written by Andrea Scott
Set & Costume: Brandon Kleiman
Lighting: Kaitlin Hickey
Sound and Music: Deanna H. Choi
Video: Nick Bottomley
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2019 - WORLD PREMIERE
Written and performed by Daniel MacIvor
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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
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2019
Written by Tracy Letts
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2019
Written by Duncan Macmillan & Jonny Donahoe
Set & lighting: Steve Lucas
Performed by Gavin Crawford
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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
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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
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2019
Written by Margaret Atwood
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2019 - WORLD PREMIERE
Written and performed by Augusto Bitter
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2019 - WORLD PREMIERE
Written by Andrew Kushnir
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2018
Written by Sarah DeLappe
Set & Lighting: Jareth Li
Original Music and Sound Design: Deanna H. Choi
Assistant sound designer: Cosette Pin
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2018 - WORLD PREMIERE
Written by Tara Beagan
Music by Pura Fé
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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
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2018
Written by Paul Thompson & Rick Salutin
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2018 - WORLD PREMIERE
Written and performed by Justin Miller
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2017
Written by Colleen Wagner
Set: Elahe Marjovi
Lighting: Louise Guinand
Costume: Samantha McCue
CAST: Augusto Bitter & Tamara Podemski
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2017 - WORLD PREMIERE
Written by Falen Johnson
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2017 - WORLD PREMIERE
Written by Ryan Griffith
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2017 - WORLD PREMIERE
Adapted from the short story by Alistair MacLean by Ryan Griffith
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2017
Written by Linda Griffiths
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2016 - WORLD PREMIERE
Written by Jijo Quayson
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2016 - WORLD PREMIERE
Written by Keith Barker
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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