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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 beginning a new career this fall, as Assistant Professor of Sound and Media at The University of Tennessee - Knoxville, after ten years as resident sound designer for Pioneer Theatre Company, teaching sound design for The University of Utah Department of Theatre, and a short stint as Assistant Professor at Illinois State University.  He has designed sound and/or composed music for more than 150 productions in theaters throughout the country, including the Utah Shakespeare Festival (12 years), Indiana Repertory Theatre, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Salt Lake Shakespeare, The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, 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, Illinois State University, The University of Tennessee Clarence Brown Theatre, Salt Lake Shakespeare, and the University of Utah. Joe is a member of United Scenic Artist local 829.

Long Bio:

Joe Payne is beginning a new career this fall, as Assistant Professor of Sound and Media at The University of Tennessee - Knoxville, after ten years as resident sound designer for Pioneer Theatre Company, teaching sound design for The University of Utah Department of Theatre, and a short stint as Assistant Professor at Illinois State University.

Selected original music credits include: Composition of the rock musical, The Bakkhai, presented by U Theatre's Classical Greek Theatre Festival, Measure for Measure for Illinois State University, 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, The Glass Menagerie, Two Gentlemen of Verona, King Lear, Twelfth Night, Coriolanus, The Merry Wives of Windsor, and Hamlet for the Utah Shakespeare 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: twelve seasons as Sound Designer for The Utah Shakespeare 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: Performing Tonight: Liza Minnelli’s Daughter for the Neo-Futurists in Chicago, 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 for Mountain Town Stages, 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 in Alpine, UT, and his own recording studio which follows him in a suitcase around the country.

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.  Until Joe's move to Illinois and then Tennessee, this band had been performing regularly throughout northern Utah.  You may still have a chance to hear them live during the Christmas Season, and at a variety of summer festivals.

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