Joe Payne Sound Design - Composition - Projection / Media Design
Photo by Chris Detrick for In This Week Magazine (Scene in SLC feature article 9/23/09)
Short Bio:
Joe Payne is in his tenth season as resident sound designer for Pioneer Theatre Company and teaching sound design for The University of Utah Department of Theatre. He has designed sound and/or composed music for more than 100 productions in theaters throughout the country, including The Utah Shakespearean Festival (10 years), Indiana Repertory Theatre, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Salt Lake Shakespeare, The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Cincinnati Playhouse In The Park, The Virginia Stage Company (4 years), The Egyptian Theatre Company, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Utah Opera, The Fulton Opera House, and Utah Musical Theatre. Joe has created and designed media and projections for Pioneer Theatre Company, The University of Tennessee Knoxville, Salt Lake Shakespeare, and the University of Utah. Joe is a member of United Scenic Artist local 829. His composition and design for PTC’s Julius Caesar was presented at the Prague Quadrennial design exhibition 2007, and toured the states in 2008 as part of USITT's regional and national conferences. Recent projects include composition of the rock musical, The Bakkhai, presented by U Theatre's Classical Greek Theatre Festival.Long Bio:
Joe Payne is in his tenth season as resident sound designer for Pioneer Theatre Company and teaching sound design for The University of Utah Department of Theatre.Original music credits include: Composition of the rock musical, The Bakkhai, presented by U Theatre's Classical Greek Theatre Festival, The Yellow Leaf, The Vertical Hour, Othello, Julius Caesar (included in the Prague Quadrennial design exhibition 2007 and USITT states tour 2008), Humble Boy, Steel Magnolias, Ten Little Indians, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest and Communicating Doors for PTC, Helen, Iphigenia, The Birdcatcher In Hell, Monster Spider, Agamemnon and Oedipus the King for the U of U, Two Gentlemen of Verona, King Lear, Twelfth Night, Coriolanus, The Merry Wives of Windsor, and Hamlet for The Utah Shakespearean Festival, Death of a Salesman for The Alabama Shakespeare Festival, I Am My Own Wife, and Humble Boy for The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Measure for Measure and Henry V for Salt Lake Shakespeare, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and A Village Fable for The Egyptian Theatre Company, Ten Little Indians for Cincinnati Playhouse In The Park, and Macbeth for Weber State University where Joe received his Bachelor’s degree in Scenic and Sound Design.
Other design credits include: ten seasons as Sound Designer for The Utah Shakespearean Festival, four years as Resident Sound Designer for The Virginia Stage Company, The Ladies Man for Indiana Repertory Theatre, Noises Off for Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, A Little Night Music and H.M.S. Pinafore for Utah Opera, Macbeth for The Egyptian Theatre Company, Having Our Say for The Fulton Opera House, and a season with Utah Musical Theatre.
Projection / Media credits include: The Who's Tommy for The University of Tennessee Knoxville, Miss Saigon, The Light In The Piazza, The Ladies Man, Julius Caesar, Chicago, Paint Your Wagon, and Disney's Beauty and The Beast for Pioneer Theatre Company, Measure for Measure for Salt Lake Shakespeare, and many clips of video web advertising for The University of Utah and Pioneer Theatre Company.
Audio engineering credits include: The Park City Arts Festival, The Virginia Symphony, The Virginia Beach Arts Festival and the boardwalk summer concert series for Onyx Engineering, many local Utah bands and conventions for Performance Audio, Babymoon Recording Studio, and his own recording studio which is located at the Pioneer Memorial Theater.
Joe is a member of United Scenic Artist local 829 as a sound designer.
Joe is currently proud to be the bass player for Marvin Payne and the Gifted Seed, a band comprised of his father and brothers, playing music primarily written by his father in the 1970s and 80s. This band is currently performing regularly throughout northern Utah.
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