You've got your first big sound design  ......what now!?

Friday 17th March 

Online 

12pm - 1.30pm 

A panel discussion aiming to answer the questions that come up during the transition from small-scale/fringe to mid- and large scale productions. If you’re struggling to understand the complexity of large systems, the roles of everyone in the sound department (because you are part of a department now!), or what the hell a purchase order is - this session might help! Hosted by Roly Botha, a composer/sound designer who is currently asking all of these questions about their own jobs.

Panel includes Sound Designers, and Production Staff to help paint a picture of how our department works. 

The panel includes: 

John Leonard - Sound Designer

Alexandra Faye Braithwaite - Sound Designer

Sorcha Steele - HOD at the Factory Manchester (former HOD at Manchester Royal Exchange)

Jonas Roebuck - Sound and Video Supervisor in the Olivier at the National Theatre

Roly Botha (they/them) is a composer and sound designer, and is an Associate Artist of The PappyShow. 

Theatre includes: Shut Up, I’m Dreaming (National Theatre School’s Tour); The Ultimate Pickle, A Sudden Violent Burst of Rain, Half Empty Glasses (Paines Plough); Orlando (Jermyn Street); BOYS (Barbican, Southbank Centre, touring); Coming To England (Birmingham Rep); WILD (Unicorn); Muck (Park); Blowhole (Soho) Milk & Gall (Theatre503); Fritz & Matlock (Pleasance London); Helen (BAC); Brother (Southwark Playhouse); Warheads (Park - 2020 Olivier Nominated); GIRLS, CARE (The PappyShow, touring); and Making Fatiha (Camden People’s Theatre). 

Audio includes: It’s A Practice Podcast (The PappyShow); Plays For Today, (Southwark Playhouse)

Joining Roly will be Sound Designers - John Leonard, Alexandra Faye Braitwaite, Head of Sound in the Olivier, National Theatre - Jonas Roebuck, Head of Sound at Manchester Royal Exchange - Sorcha Steele. 

John Leonard started his career in the oldest continuously working theatre in the UK, the Theatre Royal, Bristol and has recently worked in the one of the newest, Soho Place Theatre. In between, he has worked in pubs, clubs, convents, cathedrals, community centres, sports halls and the iconic Doncaster Road Baths, Scunthorpe, as well as more traditional theatres throughout the UK, in London’s West-End, New York, Los Angeles, Japan, Norway, Prague, Austria, France, Hong Kong, Korea and Germany.

ALEXANDRA FAYE BRAITHWAITE (Composer and Sound Designer).

Theatre creditsinclude: CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF, BLOODY ELLE, WUTHERING HEIGHTS, LIGHT FALLS (Royal Exchange Theatre); THE NARCISSIST (Chichester Festival Theatre); SOUND OF THE UNDERGROUND, PURPLE SNOWFLAKES AND TITTY WANKS (Royal Court); THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF DISSOCIA, SHINING CITY, ROOM (Theatre Royal Stratford East); GOOD PERSON OF SZECHWAN, ANNA KARENINA, OPERATION CRUCIBLE, CHICKEN SOUP (Sheffield Theatres); GROAN UPS (Mischief Theatre - West End); THE CAVALCADERS (Druid); THINGS OF DRY HOURS (Young Vic); ENDURANCE (HOME Manchester); A PRETTY SHITTY LOVE, A CHRISTMAS CAROL (Theatre Clwyd); MY NAME IS RACHEL CORRIE (Al Madina Theatre, Beirut); COUGAR, THE ROLLING STONE, DEALING WITH CLAIR (Orange Tree Theatre); DUBLIN CAROL (Sherman Theatre); HAMLET, TALKING HEADS, RUDOLPH (Leeds Playhouse); THE AUDIENCE, JUICY AND DELICIOUS (Nuffield Theatre); THE REMAINS OF MAISIE DUGGAN (Abbey Theatre); TOAST, HOW NOT TO DROWN, ENOUGH (Traverse Theatre); WHEN I AM QUEEN (Almeida).

Jonas Roebuck

Sound and Video Supervisor – National Theatre

Jonas trained at Central School of Speech and Drama, where he studied Sound Design and Sound Production.

He is currently Sound and Video Supervisor in the Olivier Theatre, where he manages a team to deliver all the sound and video requirements including; implementing sound designs, overseeing all sound requirements for show captures including NT Live and NT at Home, facilitating numerous events and working closely with industry partners to maintain and develop systems that provide the tools for creative teams to deliver shows.

Jonas has Production Engineered a wide variety of productions such as; HEX, Translations, Amadeus, Twelfth Night, Threepenny Opera, Les Blanc and Everyman. Recently he Production Engineered Standing At the Sky’s Edge, a musical co-produced with Sheffield Theatres where he worked closely with the Sound Designer to deliver the sound system across both venues.

He’s also been Sound Designer on a number of events including Up Next Gala 2019 and Connections Festival. He was the Associate Sound Designer on Small Island and Paradise.

Jonas has been an opening operator on shows including Follies, Hadestown, Wonder.Land and the National Theatre's 50th live broadcast. He has dialogue mixed and production engineered numerous live theatre broadcasts to cinemas including The Cherry Orchard at Galway Blackbox Theatre, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern at Old Vic Theatre and Saint Joan at the Donmar.

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