Bio:

 

I have designed hundreds of projects and plays including the world and/or New York premiere productions of; Charles Busch's The Tale of the Allergist's Wife (Broadway); Alan Ayckbourn's Comic Potential (Drama Desk nomination), House/Garden, as well as the Broadway revival of Ayckbourn's Absurd Person Singular; John Patrick Shanley's Four Dogs and a Bone and Beggars in the House of Plenty; David Ive's Polish Joke; David Lindsey Abaire's Fuddy Meers and Kimberly Akimbo; Mark Hampton's Full Gallop; Jeffrey Hatcher's Three Viewings;  Arthur Laurent's The Radical Mystique; Velina Hasu Huston's Tea; Richard Greenburg's The Bloodletters, Life Under Water, The Author's Voice, and Jenny Keeps Talking; Charlayne Woodard's Pretty Fire; Kenneth Lonergan's The Waverly Gallery; Becky Mode's Fully Committed (L.A. Drama Critics Circle nomination); John Lequizamo's Mambo Mouth; Douglas McGrath's Political Animal; A.R. Gurney's The Old Boy; Bo Eason's Runt of the Litter; and Michael Brady's To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday.

 

From 2005 to 2014 I taught classes in sound design and sound technology at the New York City College of Technology.

 

I am a member of local USA829, PSC/CUNY Instructional Staff Union, the Ensemble Studio Theatre/NY and ﾠthe Themed Entertainment Association.

 

A comprehensive list of credits is available HERE.

 

Madame Tussauds New York Refurbishment Project:

 

1. Redesigned existing audio systems utilizing the preexisting infrastructure
2. Determined that a distributed, individually zoned system was preferred over a single central system
3. Specified and supervised the installation of all new audio systems working with vendors (PRG, Richmond Sound, John Leonard) to determine budget
4. Replaced the original eight Richmond Sound Design AudioBoxes with  four PC CPU’s
5. Upgraded system capability from maximum of 128 output channels to 240 and added additional live input/output routing via a small Yamaha mixing console
6. Performed all programming restoring the original sound design including some which had been off-line for several years
7. Created an intranet MIDI based control system/Graphical User Interface and wrote an instruction guide

 

Madame Tussauds New York “The Spirit of New York” Project:

 

1. Specified and supervised the installation of all new audio systems working with vendors (PRG, Richmond Sound, John Leonard) to determine budget
2. Designed system from exhibit drawings and specified appropriate Meyer self-powered speakers utilizing the same playback format as the rest of the facility to maintain programming consistency
3. Worked with London based content designer, John Leonard, to refine system design
4. Preprogrammed the exhibit from e-mailed files and notes
5. Integrated lighting control into the sound control system

 

Educator:

New York City College of Technology January 2005 – June 2014

 

1. Taught classes in Sound Design and created the Sound Design curriculum
2. Taught classes in Sound Technology and survey classes in Entertainment Technology
3. Designed the schools annual “Gravesend Inn” which utilizes  sophisticated technology

1. 1. Overall control from Medialon Manager programmed by John Huntington
   2. Video playback via Dataton’s Watchout
   3. IP/PoE video cameras throughout the attraction
   4. Networked audio transport—Cobranet the first year I took over the design (2009), Audinate’s Dante protocol since (2010-2014)
   5. Audio playback 2009-2013 used Stage Research’s SFX software. 2014, my last design and programming for this event, utilized Figure 53’s QLab 3.1 Mac based software
   6. This attraction is audience triggered via a variety of sensors
   7. Engineering Brief about City Tech’s Haunted Hotel (John Huntington co-author) presented at AES Conference  – New York, October 2011