Biog
Mic’s involvement in theatre sound extends over 40 years. He has been resident at the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith, the Royal Court Theatre, and toured internationally with Ballet Rambert. He has designed the sound for over 350 productions including more than 200 for West Yorkshire Playhouse where he worked for 23 years, as its first head of sound, as resident sound designer, as an associate director and from 2000 as Director of Creative Technology. He was nominated for both the Lucille Lortel and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Sound Design 2001 for the New York production of The Unexpected Man. Mic was nominated for eight awards for productions of The 39 Steps worldwide, including the 2007 Laurence Olivier Award. He won the first Tony ever awarded to a sound designer (Best Sound Design in a Play for the Broadway production of The 39 Steps).
Recent theatre credits include: The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (UK Tour and Cunard), Kay Mellor's Band of Gold (Leeds Grand & No 1 UK Tour), Witness for the Prosecution (County Hall), Gaslight, (Bill Kenwright tour), Porgy and Bess (Grange Park Opera), Art (Old Vic and UK Tour), No's Knife (Old Vic and Abbey Theatre Dublin), Kathleen Turner- Finding My Voice (The Other Palace), Blueberry Toast (Soho Theatre), Abigail's Party (Theatre Royal Bath and Tour), The Graduate (WYP, Curve and Tour), Silver Lining (ETT), Gaslight (Royal Northampton), Talking Heads (Theatre Royal Bath), Fortune's Fool (Old Vic), The Captain of Kopenick (Olivier, NT), Queen of the Nile (Hull Truck), The Real Thing (ETT) The King's Speech (Wyndham's) The Madness of George III (Apollo), Leeds Canvas Quay Brothers/Gavin Bryars, The 2010/11 touring production of The History Boys (Theatre Royal Bath Productions); The Hound of the Baskervilles (Duchess Theatre); The Postman Always Rings Twice (Playhouse Theatre); Ying Tong (New Ambassadors Theatre); The Solid Gold Cadillac (Garrick Theatre ); Brand (RSC and West End); Art (West End/Broadway/worldwide); Shockheaded Peter (Cultural Industry world tour/West End); The Unexpected Man (RSC/West End/New York/Los Angeles); Beauty And The Beast, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Seagull, Victoria and The Roundhouse Season of Late Shakespeare Plays (RSC); The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Shared experience); Rum And Coca Cola (Talawa); Beryl, Avocado, The Wind in the Willows, Cat on a Hot tin Roof, King Lear, Yerma, The Deep Blue Sea, The Secret Garden, Crash, As You Like It, Hay Fever, Death Of A Salesman, Animal Farm, Don’t You Leave Me Here, Monkey! and Fast Labour (West Yorkshire Playhouse).
Mic also works as a video designer.
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