Sound Design & Mixing

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Fun Home follows the emotional journey of Alison Bechedel, as she reflects on her childhood and relationship with her late father. As she recounts her memories, she draws comparisons between herself and her father, in an attempt to better understand him. Through the sound design of this production, I wanted to find a sense of presentness, as if Alison is reliving these past moments rather than simply remembering them.

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This production of Fun Home was produced in a three-quarter thrust by a local storefront theatre, which had been renovated from an old ice factory. As the sound designer for this production, I also acted as the mixer and did all sound system set up and console programming. We had a live seven piece band, which had ambient reinforcement. Since the space was fairly small and due to the nature of the musical, I was aiming for a naturalistic sound overall, this was used primarily for actor monitoring. 

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I also managed a rental package that consisted of 12 wireless Sennheiser microphones, receivers, and elements, and two EAW speakers. This was used in conjunction with the two D&B V10 speakers which make up the theatre’s main PA system, and DAS Action-M5124 monitors which were placed as needed. I also placed a small speaker in a gutted piano to emulate the actors playing it in certain scenes.

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"The beauty of River & Rail’s Fun Home is that there is something sweet in its painful realizations about life. Our only hope is that we find a way to survive those moments."
- Alan Sherrod, Arts Knoxville

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Sound design collage unavailable due to AEA and copyright regulations